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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 3(20), p. 1-42, 2011

DOI: 10.1145/2000791.2000792

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PrIMe

Journal article published in 2011 by Simon Miles, Paul Groth ORCID, Luc Moreau, Steve Munroe
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Abstract

Provenance refers to the past processes that brought about a given (version of an) object, item or entity. By knowing the provenance of data, users can often better understand, trust, reproduce, and validate it. A provenance-aware application has the functionality to answer questions regard- ing the provenance of the data it produces, by using documentation of past processes. PrIMe is a software engineering technique for adapting application designs to enable them to interact with a provenance middleware layer, thereby making them provenance-aware. In this article, we specify the steps involved in applying PrIMe, analyse its effectiveness, and illustrate its use with two case studies, in bioinformatics and medicine.