Title :
Provenance for Visualizations: Reproducibility and Beyond
Author :
Silva, Claudio T. ; Freire, Juliana ; Callahan, Steven P.
Abstract :
The demand for the construction of complex visualizations is growing in many disciplines of science, as users are faced with ever increasing volumes of data to analyze. In this paper, the authors present VisTrails, an open source provenance-management system that provides infrastructure for data exploration and visualization. VisTrails transparently records detailed provenance of exploratory computational tasks and leverages this information beyond just the ability to reproduce and share results. In particular, it uses this information to simplify the process of exploring data through visualization.
Keywords :
data visualisation; public domain software; VisTrails; data exploration; data visualizations; open source provenance-management system; Assembly; Collaboration; Data analysis; Data visualization; Explosions; Grid computing; Libraries; Mesh generation; Reproducibility of results; Web services; Visualization Corner; provenance; reproducibility; visualization;
Journal_Title :
Computing in Science & Engineering
DOI :
10.1109/MCSE.2007.106
