PrIMe: A methodology for developing provenance-aware applications

  • Authors:
  • Simon Miles;Paul Groth;Steve Munroe;Luc Moreau

  • Affiliations:
  • King's College London, UK;University of Southern California;University of Southampton, United Kingdom;University of Southampton, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Provenance refers to the past processes that brought about a given (version of an) object, item or entity. By knowing the provenance of data, users can often better understand, trust, reproduce, and validate it. A provenance-aware application has the functionality to answer questions regarding the provenance of the data it produces, by using documentation of past processes. PrIMe is a software engineering technique for adapting application designs to enable them to interact with a provenance middleware layer, thereby making them provenance-aware. In this article, we specify the steps involved in applying PrIMe, analyze its effectiveness, and illustrate its use with two case studies, in bioinformatics and medicine.