Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
What do people recall about their documents?: implications for desktop search tools
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Provenance-aware storage systems
ATEC '06 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX '06 Annual Technical Conference
Using provenance to aid in personal file search
ATC'07 2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference on Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Seeing is retrieving: building information context from what the user sees
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
SMILE: encounter-based trust for mobile social services
Proceedings of the 16th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
FAST'10 Proceedings of the 8th USENIX conference on File and storage technologies
Layering in provenance systems
USENIX'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on USENIX Annual technical conference
The Foundations for Provenance on the Web
Foundations and Trends in Web Science
Intrusion recovery for database-backed web applications
SOSP '11 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
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In our increasingly networked world, web browsers are important applications. Originally an interface tool for accessing distributed documents, browsers have become ubiquitous, incorporating a significant portion of user interaction. A modern browser now also reads email, plays media, edits documents, and runs applications. Consequently, browsers process large quantities of data, and must record metadata, such as history, to help users manage their data. Most of the metadata that modern browsers record is actually provenance -- metadata that captures the causality and lineage of data obtained via the browser. We demonstrate that characterizing browser metadata as provenance and then applying techniques from the provenance research community enables new browser functionality. For example, provenance can improve both history and web search by indicating contextual and personal relationships between data items. Users can also answer complex questions about the origins of their data by querying provenance. Our initial results suggest these features are feasible to implement and could perform well in modern browsers.