IN31C-3733:
Provenance Usage in the OceanLink Project

Wednesday, 17 December 2014
Tom Narock1, Robert A Arko2, Suzanne M Carbotte3, Cynthia L Chandler4, Michelle Cheatham5, Douglas Fils6, Tim Finin7, Pascal Hitzler5, Krzysztof Janowicz8, Matt Jones8, Adila Krisnadhi5, Kerstin A Lehnert2, Audrey Mickle4, Lisa M Raymond9, Mark Schildhauer10, Adam Shepherd9 and Peter H Wiebe9, (1)Marymount University, Arlington, VA, United States, (2)Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)Wright State University Main Campus, Dayton, OH, United States, (6)Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, DC, United States, (7)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (8)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (9)Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (10)National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Abstract:
A wide spectrum of maturing methods and tools, collectively characterized as the Semantic Web, is helping to vastly improve the
dissemination of scientific research. The OceanLink project, an NSF EarthCube Building Block, is utilizing semantic technologies to
integrate geoscience data repositories, library holdings, conference abstracts, and funded research awards. Provenance is a vital component
in meeting both the scientific and engineering requirements of OceanLink. Provenance plays a key role in justification and understanding when presenting users with results aggregated from multiple sources. In the engineering sense, provenance enables the identification of new data and the ability to determine which data sources to query. Additionally, OceanLink will leverage human and machine computation for crowdsourcing, text mining, and co-reference resolution. The results of these computations, and their associated provenance, will be folded back into the constituent systems to continually enhance precision and utility. We will touch on the various roles provenance is playing in OceanLink as well as present our use of the PROV Ontology and associated Ontology Design Patterns.
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