[Esip-preserve] FYI: Interview about the new W3C provenance standards

[Curt Tilmes]

http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/04/interview_paul_groth_and_luc_m.html

[...]
IJ: What are some examples that people have built?

Luc: As part of our progression to Recommendation we catalogued 66 
applications. Some are interesting academic examples, others very 
practical. For me, one that stands out is NASA's use of PROV to 
provenance-enable the National Climate Assessment report. They are 
currently working on a prototype and I believe they will launch by the 
end of the year. NASA is also about to launch a satellite mission where 
data and processing is accompanied by provenance information.

Paul: One of the reasons NASA is interested in PROV is that they have 
data coming from multiple different systems and they need a common 
standard for provenance information that works across those systems.
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