[Esip-preserve] Esip-preserve Digest, Vol 22, Issue 6

[Myers, Jim]

The W3C Provenance exploratory group
(http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/ ) has a business use case along
these lines - where one might want to provide enough provenance detail
to show that contractual terms were met without revealing all of the
provenance known. In the case here, that might be provenance showing
that the algorithm has been shown to work well on standard test cases
while not revealing the actual code, etc.

Cheers,
 Jim


James D. Myers, Ph.D.
Director, Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovation (CCNI)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
405 Jordan Rd
Troy, NY 12180
518-276-2858
myersj4 at rpi.edu

 

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Today's Topics:

   1. Provenance for Data Created With Proprietary	Software
      (Bruce Barkstrom)


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I was researching "orthorectification" a few weeks ago and ran across a
rather bothersome reference that suggested companies doing aerial
surveys may keep details of the algorithms for this process proprietary
in order to protect what they regard as their trade secrets.  I'll get
the specific reference later, but from my standpoint, hiding details of
the algorithms means that it is impossible to replicate the details of
the processes applied to the data or to verify the correctness of the
algorithms.  In the long term, this means that such data should only be
published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results.  It also creates
some rather interesting pleasantries for provenance.

Bruce B.
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