DATA CURATION SYSTEM WITH VERSION CONTROL FOR WORKFLOW STATES AND PROVENANCE

摘要

A data curation system that includes various methods to enable efficient reuse of human and machine effort. To reuse effort, various facilities are presented that model, save, and allow the querying of provenance and state information of a curation workflow and allow for incremental, stateful transitions of the data and the metadata.

主权项

1. A system for data curation with version control comprising:
a system operator; data experts; a curation processes module; a state creation and manipulation module; an update handler module; and a curation states and provenance datastore; wherein said curation processes module is operable to
send questions to said data experts andreceive opinions from said data experts about said data curation; wherein said curation processes module is operable to
output a curation proposal to said system operator andoutput state changes and provenance to said state creation and manipulation module; wherein said state creation and manipulation module is operable to
output candidate changes to said update handler module; wherein said update handler module is operable to
output an update proposal to said system operator,input update approvals from said system operator,output final changes to said state creation and manipulation module; wherein said state creation and manipulation module is operable to
output new states and provenance to said curation states and provenance datastore,wherein said new states and provenance is a child state of the former parent state, wherein said parent state, said child state, and information about the action that the changed said parent state to said child state are all stored in said curation states and provenance datastore, thereby enabling said version control for said data curation.