Provenance browser: Displaying and querying scientific workflow provenance graphs

Author

Anand, Manish Kumar ; Bowers, Shawn ; Ludäscher, Bertram

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Davis, CA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

1-6 March 2010

Firstpage

1201

Lastpage

1204

Abstract

This demonstration presents an interactive provenance browser for visualizing and querying data dependency (lineage) graphs produced by scientific workflow runs. The browser allows users to explore different views of provenance as well as to express complex and recursive graph queries through a high-level query language (QLP). Answers to QLP queries are lineage preserving in that queries return sets of lineage dependencies (denoting provenance graphs), which can be further queried and visually displayed (as graphs) in the browser. By combining provenance visualization, navigation, and query, the provenance browser can enable scientists to more easily access and explore scientific workflow provenance information.

Keywords

online front-ends; query languages; workflow management software; data dependency graphs; high-level query language; provenance browser; provenance navigation; provenance query; provenance visualization; scientific workflow provenance graphs; Anatomy; Bioinformatics; Computer science; Data visualization; Database languages; Genomics; Navigation; Query processing; Resource description framework; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Engineering (ICDE), 2010 IEEE 26th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5445-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5444-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDE.2010.5447741

Filename

5447741