Beth Plale, associate professor in the Indiana University School of Informatics, Department of Computer Science, has reportedly received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for her project. She is working on developing a digital toolkit to help researchers more easily capture information about their scientific work. The new tools are expected to create a kind of 'digital tagging,' keeping research intact as it passes from one scientist to another.
As the volume of research digital data created through computational science experimentation proliferates, it becomes increasingly important to capture information on the fly about a data's authentication, validity and quality. According to Plale, this project creates a domain-independent tool for capturing and using provenance data of scientific digital data.
The two-year grant totaling $432,954 will fund development of SDCI Data: New Toolkit for Provenance Collection, Publishing and Experience Reuse. Joining Plale in the project are Dennis Gannon and David Leake, professors in the IU School of Informatics' Department of Computer Science, and Yogesh Simmhan of Microsoft Research.
The tools coming out of this project are projected to help scientists in the life sciences and physical sciences better track their interactions with data; make storage and reuse of scientific data easier; and help scientists working with computational modeling and analysis tools work more productively.
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