1. ANDS and why we care about provenance
Dr Andrew Treloar, Director of Technology

2. ANDS enables the transformation of:
Data that are:
Unmanaged
Disconnected
Invisible
Single use
To Structured Collections that are:
Managed
Connected
Findable
Reusable
so that Australian researchers can easily publish, discover, access and use/re-use research data.

3. Minimal Research Lifecycle
Share
Think Do
Increasingly, Share is bleeding into Do, so let’s zoom in on this
22 April 2019

5. ANDS’ Motivations Unmanaged to Managed Disconnected to Connected:
Managing more of the context
Disconnected to Connected:
Richer connections between entities
Invisible to Findable:
Enhanced discovery
Assessment of value
Single Use to Reusable
More informed reuse

6. Open questions for ANDS
How to record provenance
What provenance information to capture
Where to store provenance information
How to connect provenance information to other entities (data, models, publications, parties, services)
How to describe provenance information for discovery

7. ANDS Provenance Activity
Australian Research Data Provenance Interest Group
Funding joint NeCTAR/ANDS Virtual Laboratory projects:
Standalone provenance capture service (Nic Carr/Ryan Fraser) based on PROV-O
Discipline VL projects using this service: biodiversity, natural hazards, earth science, astronomy, marine
Contributing to this IG

8. Questions? ands.org.au andrew.treloar@ands.org.au @atreloar