Chimera: AVirtual Data System for Representing, Querying, and Automating Data Derivation
SSDBM '02 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
Virtual logbooks and collaboration in science and software development
IPAW'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Provenance and Annotation of Data
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A key feature of collaboration is having a log of what and how is being done – for private use/reuse and for sharing selected parts with collaborators in today’s complex, large scale scientific/software environments. Even better if this log is automatic, created on the fly while a scientist or software developer is working in a habitual way, without the need for extra efforts. The CAVES (Collaborative Analysis Versioning Environment System) and CODESH (COllaborative DEvelopment SHell) projects address this problem in a novel way, building on the concepts of virtual state and virtual transition to provide an automatic persistent logbook for sessions of data analysis or software development in a collaborating group. Repositories of sessions can be configured dynamically to record and make available in a controlled way the knowledge accumulated in the course of a scientific or software endeavor.