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Principles of high quality documentation for provenance: a philosophical discussion

Published: 03 May 2006 Publication History

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Computer technology enables the creation of detailed documentation about the processes that create or affect entities (data, objects, etc.). Such documentation of the past can be used to answer various kinds of questions regarding the processes that led to the creation or modification of a particular entity. The answer to such questions are known as an entity's provenance. In this paper, we derive a number of principles for documenting the past, grounded in work from philosophy and history, which allow for provenance questions to be answered within a computational context. These principles lead us to argue that an interaction-based model is particularly suited for representing high quality documentation of the past.

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  • (2006)A provenance model for manually curated dataProceedings of the 2006 international conference on Provenance and Annotation of Data10.1007/11890850_17(162-170)Online publication date: 3-May-2006

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IPAW'06: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Provenance and Annotation of Data
May 2006
288 pages
ISBN:354046302X
  • Editors:
  • Luc Moreau,
  • Ian Foster

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