@inproceedings{bfb91e1b878b4fac9f4b757c8aec42e5,
title = "A provenance maturity model",
abstract = "The history of a piece of information is known as “provenance”. From extensive interactions with hydro-and geo-scientists in Australian science agencies we found both widespread demand for provenance and widespread confusion about how to manage it and how to develop requirements for managing it. We take inspiration from the well-known software development Capability Maturity Model to design a Maturity Model for provenance management that we call the PMM. The PMM can be used to assess the state of existing practices within an organisation or project, to benchmark practices and existing tools, to develop requirements for new provenance projects, and to track improvements in provenance management across an organisational unit. We present the PMM and evaluate it through application in a workshop of scientists across three data-intensive science projects. We find that scientists recognise the value of a structured approach to requirements elicitation that ensures that aspects are not overlooked.",
keywords = "Lineage, Pedigree, Provenance, Reproducibility, Requirements",
author = "Kerry Taylor and Robert Woodcock and Susan Cuddy and Peter Thew and David Lemon",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2015.; 11th IFIP WG 5.11 International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, ISESS 2015 ; Conference date: 25-03-2015 Through 27-03-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-15994-2_1",
language = "English",
series = "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology",
publisher = "Springer New York LLC",
editor = "Ralf Denzer and Argent, {Robert M.} and Gerald Schimak and Ji{\v r}{\'i} H{\v r}eb{\'i}{\v c}ek",
booktitle = "Environmental Software Systems",
}