[Esip-preserve] A Minor Note on Nomenclature

[Mark A. Parsons]

I agree audit reports are provenance.

-m.
On 24 Aug 2010, at 3:39 PM, Curt Tilmes wrote:

> On 08/24/2010 04:54 PM, alicebarkstrom at verizon.net wrote:
>> I think I'd be inclined to put "audit reports" in Context
>> Information basically because they would not be used in the
>> production scripts and are therefore produced by a special process.
>> In the sense you're suggesting, it seems to me that an "audit
>> report" is a verification of maintenance of proper record keeping of
>> the production history. In my recent paper, I would be inclined to
>> incorporate an "audit report" as part of "custodianship" - noting
>> that the data structure for "custodianship" is not the same as the
>> data structure for "production history". In the data structure in
>> the paper, "custodianship" is represented by a graph that records
>> something like who was on duty when, as well as the proper transfer
>> of custodianship from one person to another. The mental model for
>> this is a bit like a log book for night watchmen - although the
>> model should probably be made more formal.  Good note. We do need to
>> find a place for "audit reports".
> 
> Then we still disagree.  I think custodianship (and audit information)
> is a critical component of "provenance" and not distinct from it.
> 
> production history says you used file X.
> 
> provenance includes where you got file X, when you got it, who was
> responsible for it, who wrote the software that produced file X, what
> compiler was used to compile the software, etc.
> 
> context I think of as a paper describing the format of file X, a
> validation paper describing the usefulness of the data in file X, etc.
> 
> We need to make a big list of all the artifacts and map them to
> those terms.
> 
> The whole set we can call "provenance and context" (we've done that
> before).
> 
> Curt
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