description of process
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David De Roure1, Pip Willcox2, and�Alfie Abdul-Rahman1
On the Description of Process in Digital Scholarship
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD �
1 OXFORD E-RESEARCH CENTRE 2 CENTRE FOR DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP
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data
process script
program
workflow recipe
plan
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chemistrylab
musicstudio
computa2onalworkflow
businessworkflow
archaeology
firstfolio
interac2vetool
“Accidents of�preservation �
and discovery” Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller
chemistrylab
musicstudio
computa2onalworkflow
businessworkflow
archaeology
firstfolio
interac2vetool
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completeness of process record
PROV
http://demeter.oerc.ox.ac.uk/NumbersIntoNotes/
W3C PROV-N graph, for interpretation and reproducibility
https://provenance.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
mo:Performance
mo:Sound
mo:Recording
mo:Signal
mo:Track
mo:AudioFile
mo:AudioFile
mo:produced_sound mo:recorded_in
mo:produced_signal
mo:published_as
mo:available_as
mo:available_as
prov:Activityprov:used prov:wasGeneratedBy
mo:Performance
prov:SoftwareAgent(etree:FlacBinary)
etree:isSubEventOf
etree:audio
event:subEvent
mo:Signal
tl:Interval
tl:Timeline
mo:encodesmo:time
tl:onTimeLine
feature blob
tl:onTimeLine
prov:Activity
vamp:Transform
prov:SoftwareAgent(etree:SonicAnnotator)
prov:wasAssociatedWith
prov:wasGeneratedBy
"FLAC"
"WAV"
mo:encoding
mo:encoding
prov:Association
prov:qualifiedAssociation
prov:agent
prov:Role(audio transcoder)
prov:hadRole
prov:used
vamp:computed_by
rdf:Seqetree:command_seq
prov:Association
prov:qualifiedAssociation
prov:agent
prov:Planprov:hadPlan
prov:Role(feature extraction host)
prov:hadRole
"sonic-annotator -d ..."
etree:command_seq
prov:Plan
prov:hadPlan
prov:Association
prov:qualifiedAssociation
prov:SoftwareAgent(Vamp plugin)
prov:wasAssociatedWith
prov:agent
vamp:pluginprov:Role
(feature extraction plugin)
prov:hadRole
"flac -d ..."
rdf:_1
rdf:Seq
etree:command
prov:Activity
etree:command
prov:SoftwareAgent(etree:UnixTerminal)
prov:wasAssociatedWith
rdf:_1
tl:Interval
mo:time
xsd:duration
tl:duration
prov:wasAssociatedWith
prov:Activity
prov:wasAssociatedWith
prov: PROV Ontology mo: Music Ontology tl: Timeline Ontology vamp: Vamp Ontology calma: calma vocabulary etree: etree vocabulary
Transforming Musicology, Fusing Audio and Semantic Technologies
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Thanks to Graham Klyne for assistance in capturing and encoding the First Folio provenance
The Printing and Proof-Reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare by Hinman makes the case for compositors A to E
http://collation.folger.edu/2016/03/fallen-type/
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@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . @prefix ff: <http://http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/var#> . @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . ff:Parts a prov:Entity . ff:Perform a prov:Activity ;
prov:used ff:Parts . ff:Performance a prov:Entity ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy ff:Perform . ff:Actors a prov:Agent , "prov:Person"^^xsd:string . ff:Perform prov:wasAssociatedWith ff:Actors . ff:Director a prov:Agent , "prov:Person"^^xsd:string . ff:Perform prov:wasAssociatedWith ff:Director . ff:Audience a prov:Agent , "prov:Person"^^xsd:string . ff:Perform prov:wasAssociatedWith ff:Audience . ff:CreatePromptBook a prov:Activity ;
prov:used ff:Performance . ff:PromptBook a prov:Entity ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy ff:CreatePromptBook . ff:Copyist a prov:Agent , "prov:Person"^^xsd:string . ff:CreatePromptBook prov:wasAssociatedWith ff:Copyist .
ff:QuartoEdition a prov:Entity . ff:ComposeType a prov:Activity ;
prov:used ff:PromptBook , ff:QuartoEdition . ff:Formes a prov:Entity ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy ff:ComposeType . ff:ComposeType prov:wasAssociatedWith ff:Compositor . ff:Compositor a prov:Agent , "prov:Person"^^xsd:string ;
ff:name "B"^^xsd:string . _:blank6 a prov:Delegation ;
prov:agent ff:Printer . ff:Compositor prov:qualifiedDelegation _:blank6 . _:blank6 a "contract"^^xsd:string . ff:Printer a prov:Agent , "prov:Person"^^xsd:string . ff:Print a prov:Activity ;
prov:used ff:Formes . ff:Sheets a prov:Entity ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy ff:Print . ff:Print prov:wasAssociatedWith ff:Printer . ff:Gather a prov:Activity ;
prov:used ff:Sheets . ff:Quires a prov:Entity ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy ff:Gather . ff:Gather prov:wasAssociatedWith ff:Printer .
One entity is a specialization of another entity if it shares the same fixed attributes, with the possible addition of further fixed attributes.
PROV also allows us to more generally draw a connection between two descriptions of the same thing… describing the entities as alternates of each other.
Activities may follow pre-defined procedures, such as recipes, tutorials, instructions, or workflows. PROV refers to these, in general, as plans, and allows the description that a plan was followed, by agents, in executing an activity.
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• Plurality – Multiple plays – Multiple folios – Multiple transcriptions – Multiple provenances – Multiple authorities
• Physical book to digital facsimiles – Multiple social machines
• Subject of ongoing scholarship and discovery
TheBodleianFirstFolioasacasestudyinprovenancerepresenta2on
http://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/the-bodleians-first-folio/
The Quill platform facilitates research into the process by which committees negotiate texts, especially in the context of constitutional conventions and legislative assemblies.
Nicholas Cole and Alfie Abdul Rahman
Howard Chandler Christy [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wikiFile:Scene_at_the_Signing_of_the_Constitution_of_the_United_States.jp
1. Process descriptions should be part of the research agenda in Humanities in the Semantic Web
2. The provenance of historical artefacts and their digitizations can be represented in PROV
3. There may be multiple alternative provenances, and overlapping provenances, so we need tooling to support this. Is this a job for linked data?
4. We need to describe the provenance of provenance 5. The process of describing and encoding the
provenance has been a useful research method, facilitating interdisciplinary discussion
6. We offer the Bodleian First Folio as a case study 7. What about social editions?
David De Roure�[email protected]
Pip Willcox�[email protected]
Alfie Abdul-Rahman �[email protected]
Thanks to Graham Klyne, Terhi Nurmikko-Fuller, & Kevin Page Graphs produced by the Southampton Provenance Suite
http://www.slideshare.net/davidderoure/description-of-process
