Annotating, Linking and Browsing Provenance Logs for {e-Science}

Abstract

results of an e-science in silico experiment are of limited value if other scientists are not able to identify the origin, or provenance, of those results. For e-Science, we need more systematic provenance logs across a range of eScience activities and disciplines as well as a more informed understanding of the information in these provenance data. Semantic Web technology, which enables data to be linked and defined in a way for more effective discovery, integration and cooperation across computers and people, provides an appropriate solution for our current requirement. In this paper we show how we used the COHSE conceptual open hypermedia system to build a dynamically generated hypertext of web of provenance documents arising from the project based on associated concepts and reasoning over the ontology.