Understanding provenance and linked open data

eScience Institute Mini-Theme on Provenance and Linked Open Data Workshop

30 March 10.00 – 17.30, 31 March 9.30 - 12.45

The e-Science Institute is pleased to announce a workshop titled 'Understanding Provenance and Linked Open Data' as part of the eSI mini-theme on provenance and linked open data. This workshop is intended for academics, researchers, PhD students, industry members, data archivists, libraries, museums, government agencies and other parties interested in provenance and linked open data.

Further information is available.

Registration

If you would like to attend the event, please go to the registration website.

Important Dates

10 March - Registration Opens
23 March - Registration Deadline
30 March - Event Starts at 10.30

Workshop Purpose and Aims

Underpinning the scientific process is the transfer of ideas, knowledge and resources, and in recent years the Web has drastically altered both the nature and speed of this exchange. Recently the concept of the Web of Linked Data has emerged as a means to expose, share, and connect information on the Web identified by URIs using RDF as a data model. Examples include the data.gov.uk initiative which aims to expose UK public data, and bio2rdf.org, which provides an atlas of post-genomic data. However, the Web of Linked Data still suffers from many of the same problems as the Web of documents in terms of information quality, trust, attribution, privacy, etc.

Provenance plays a vital role in enriching the context surrounding open data, and can help support assessment of attributes such as trustworthiness and quality. The W3C Provenance Incubator Group has been working to develop a roadmap in the area of provenance for Semantic Web technologies. However, there is still considerable scope to bring interested parties together to discuss how many of these issues will be tackled in the Web of Linked Open Data.

About Provenance and Linked Open Data

The eSI mini-theme (January - June 2011) is lead by Dr Edoardo Pignotti (Computing Science, University of Aberdeen) and is comprised of a connected programme of visitors, workshops and events, focusing on the issue of provenance and linked open data. Themes are expected to identify the research issues, rally a community of researchers and map a path of future research that will make best progress towards new methods and capabilities. Expected outcomes of this mini-theme include: a roadmap for provenance and Linked Open Data, identification of a number of use-cases, the formation of new collaborations and a journal special issue focusing on the topic.