A Provenance-Based Approach for Reusing Biodiversity Data Products

摘要

In the last decade, several advances have been made in the publication and sharing of biodiversity data. The adoption of metadata standards and communication protocols has enabled improvements in interoperability between systems and distributed databases. However, to reuse these available data for experiments and decision-making processes, scientists need additional information about the data origins to enable its evaluation and traceability. In this paper, we propose an approach for managing provenance metadata through a computational architecture based on services and web standards. We demonstrate the application of our approach and show its practical usefulness by evaluating this architecture to manage provenance metadata generated during an ecological niche modeling. The results of our experiment show that this approach is effective in collecting and managing the provenance metadata of data products and their processes, storing these metadata in a standardized way and allowing their discovery and retrieval through the Web.