@article{f27e4099bd5d4ad28f01bd3c826547e1,
title = "Documenting provenance in noncomputational workflows: Research process models based on geobiology fieldwork in Yellowstone National Park",
abstract = "A comprehensive record of research data provenance is essential for the successful curation, management, and reuse of data over time. However, creating such detailed metadata can be onerous, and there are few structured methods for doing so. In this case study of data curation in support of geobiology research conducted at Yellowstone National Park, we describe a method of “Research Process Modeling” for documenting noncomputational data provenance in a structured yet flexible way. The method combines systems analysis techniques to model research activities, the World Wide Web Consortium Provenance (PROV) ontology to illustrate relationships between data products, and simple inventory methods to account for research processes and data products. It also supports collaborative data curation between information professionals and researchers, and is therefore a significant step toward producing more useable and interpretable research data. We demonstrate how this method describes data provenance more robustly than “flat” metadata alone and fills a critical gap in the documentation of provenance for field‐based and noncomputational workflows. We discuss potential applications of this approach to other research domains.",
author = "Thomer, {Andrea K.} and Wickett, {Karen M.} and Baker, {Karen S.} and Fouke, {Bruce W.} and Palmer, {Carole L.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the two anonymous reviewers, whose feedback helped improve and clarify this article. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions to this work made by other SBDC team members: Timothy DiLauro, Jacob Jett, Abigail Asangba, and G. Sayeed Choudhury. This work was funded by IMLS National Leadership Grant LG-06-12-0706-12 and draws upon the insight of data curation and data practices teams initiated by NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure Data-Net award #0830976 for the Data Conservancy: A Digital Research and Curation Virtual Organization. The geobiology case study research was supported on grants to B.W. Fouke by the National Science Foundation Biocomplexity in the Environment Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles Program (EAR 0221743), the National Science Foundation Geosciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program (EAR-0000501), the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society Starter Grant Program (34549-G2), the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Critical Research Initiative, the NASA Astrobiology Institute Cooperative Agreement No. NNA13AA91A issued through the Science Mission Directorate, and TOTAL S.A., France No. FR5585. We wish to highlight the critically important role played by the U.S. National Park Service in Yellowstone National Park for their ongoing collaboration and permission to collect microbe, water, and travertine samples at Mammoth Hot Springs (Permit Number YELL-03060). Conclusions in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the funding or permitting agencies. Funding Information: We thank the two anonymous reviewers, whose feedback helped improve and clarify this article. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions to this work made by other SBDC team members: Timothy DiLauro, Jacob Jett, Abigail Asangba, and G. Sayeed Choudhury. This work was funded by IMLS National Leadership Grant LG-06-12-0706-12 and draws upon the insight of data curation and data practices teams initiated by NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure DataNet award #0830976 for the Data Conservancy: A Digital Research and Curation Virtual Organization. The geobiology case study research was supported on grants to B.W. Fouke by the National Science Foundation Biocomplexity in the Environment Coupled Biogeochemical Cycles Program (EAR 0221743), the National Science Foundation Geosciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program (EAR-0000501), the Petroleum Research Fund of the American Chemical Society Starter Grant Program (34549-G2), the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Critical Research Initiative, the NASA Astrobiology Institute Cooperative Agreement No. NNA13AA91A issued through the Science Mission Directorate, and TOTAL S.A., France No. FR5585. We wish to highlight the critically important role played by the U.S. National Park Service in Yellowstone National Park for their ongoing collaboration and permission to collect microbe, water, and travertine samples at Mammoth Hot Springs (Permit Number YELL-03060). Conclusions in this study are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the funding or permitting agencies.",
year = "2018",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1002/asi.24039",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "69",
pages = "1234--1245",
journal = "Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology",
issn = "2330-1635",
publisher = "John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.",
number = "10",
}