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DEEP: a provenance-aware executable document system

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posted on 2013-03-08, 14:50 authored by Huanjia Yang, Danius T. Michaelides, Chris Charlton, William J. Browne, Luc Moreau
The concept of executable documents is attracting growing interest from both academics and publishers since it is a promising technology for the the dissemination of scientific results. Provenance is a kind of metadata that provides a rich description of the derivation history of data products starting from their original sources. It has been used in many different e-Science domains and has shown great potential in enabling reproducibility of scientific results. However, while both executable documents and provenance are aimed at enhancing the dissemination of scientific results, little has been done to explore the integration of both techniques. In this paper, we introduce the design and development of Deep, an executable document environment that generates scientific results dynamically and interactively, and also records the provenance for these results in the document. In this system, provenance is exposed to users via an interface that provides them with an alternative way of navigating the executable document. In addition, we make use of the provenance to offer a document rollback facility to users and help to manage the system’s dynamic resources.

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  • Computer Science

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YANG, H. ... et al., 2012. DEEP: a provenance-aware executable document system. IN: Groth, P. and Frew, J. (eds.) Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes. 4th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop, IPAW 2012, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, June 19-21, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 24–38.

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© Springer-Verlag

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publication date

2012

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This is a book chapter from Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7525 [© Springer-Verlag]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34222-6_3

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3642342213;9783642342219

Book series

Lecture Notes in Computer Science;7525

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  • en

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