Last Tuesday, the kickoff meeting for Project 5 was held at RPI.\u00a0 For this project, our goal will be to extend the OpenDAP framework – a data access framework widely used in earth and space science – with extensions for provenance tracking.\u00a0 Through developing these extensions, we seek to enable two forms of provenance tracking:<\/p>\n
Upstream Tracking:<\/strong> This tells a consumer the steps OpenDAP went through to obtain a data product. This week\u2019s tasks involved setting up an RPI-hosted system to be used for summer OpenDAP development.\u00a0 A key piece of software to be used is Prizms – an RPI-developed framework for enabling the publication of RDF-based data.\u00a0 In the following week, a review of OpenDAP\u2019s code base will be held to identify starting points for provenance extension development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last Tuesday, the kickoff meeting for Project 5 was held at RPI.\u00a0 For this project, our goal will be to extend the OpenDAP framework – a data access framework widely used in earth and space science – with extensions for provenance tracking.\u00a0 Through developing these extensions, we seek to enable Continue reading Week 1 – Getting up to speed<\/span>
\nDownstream Tracking:<\/strong> Likewise, this lets a consumer know how data they\u2019ve previously submitted has been used and modified by others.<\/p>\n