Provenance RFC

[Laurent MICHEL]

Hello,

We are pleased to announce the starting of the Provenance DM period.

RFC page: http://wiki.ivoa.net/twiki/bin/view/IVOA/ProvenanceRFC
Draft   : http://www.ivoa.net/documents/ProvenanceDM/index.html

Basically:

"This document describes how provenance information can be modeled, 
stored and exchanged within the astronomical community in a standardized 
way. We follow the definition of provenance as proposed by the W3C i.e. 
that “provenance is information about entities, activities, and people 
involved in producing a piece of data or thing, which can be used to 
form assessments about its quality, reliability or trustworthiness.” 
Such provenance information in astronomy is important to enable any 
scientist to trace back the origin of a dataset (e.g. an image, 
spectrum, catalog or single points in a spectral energy distribution 
diagram or a light curve), a document (e.g. an article, a technical 
note) or a device (e.g. a camera, a telescope), learn about the people 
and organizations involved in a project and assess the quality as well 
as the usefulness of the dataset, document or device for her own 
scientific work."

Any contribution to the discussion is welcome.

Regards
MCD LM

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