DocumentCode
1104583
Title
Provenance for Visualizations: Reproducibility and Beyond
Author
Silva, Claudio T. ; Freire, Juliana ; Callahan, Steven P.
Volume
9
Issue
5
fYear
2007
Firstpage
82
Lastpage
89
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;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computing in Science & Engineering
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1521-9615
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MCSE.2007.106
Filename
4293741
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