Provenance Extractor

Description

A tool to extract captured provenance information from the Taverna provenance database. Although Taverna offers a prototype support to export captured provenance information into Janus format, we have developed an extended Provenance Extractor. The default Janus exorter plugin is incomplete and does not fully comply with the Janus ontology. As such, many object properties such as the relation between port and port value are defined as annotation, which have however no semantics and are therefore ignored by reasoning - they can not be used to infer new information. This tool maps additionally maps the gathered information to the Context Model.

Example

The left figure presents a simple Taverna 2.4 workflow, which uses a global weather web service to request the current weather information for a specific city. The right figure visualise the ontology instance of the extracted provenance workflow run.

  • Download Taverna t2flow input file
  • Download performance OWL instance output file

Download & Licensing

This tool is licensend under the Apache License Version 2.0. Show License Hide License

Copyright (c) 2013/2014 Verein zur Foerderung der IT-Sicherheit in Oesterreich (SBA). The work has been developed in the TIMBUS Project and the above-mentioned are Members of the TIMBUS Consortium. TIMBUS is supported by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme for research and technological development and demonstration activities (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 269940.
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The Performance Extractor v1.2 command line tool is available for download.

Requirements & Execution

Runtime Dependencies

  • JRE 1.7
  • Apache Maven 3

In the README you can find further informations about runtime dependencies. 

    
 -c,--create  <path\to\create\ontology.owl>	extracts performance information and creates a new ontology. 
						override already existing file.
 -d,--database  <path\to\database>		change database to look up.
 -f,--format  <arg>				ontology format. {'OWLXMLOntologyFormat'
                                                (default),'RDFOntologyFormat','ManchesterOWLSyntax'}
 -id,--runId  <workflow run id>			skip listing of workflows. 
						enter workflow id directly. (e.g.:aef30598-455a-4889-9c34-99fa520af729)
 -r,--ranking  <workflow run ranking>		skip listing of workflows. fetch database entries ranked by execution
                                                timestamp descending. use positiv integer (starting by 0!).
 -u,--update  <\path\to\existing\ontology.owl>	extracts performance information and updates an existing ontology.
 -v,--verbose					turn on verbose mode.

In the following we present two sample executions: 

java -jar target\provenanceextractor-1.2-final.jar -c \path\to\myPerformanceOntology.owl -v -f RDFOntologyFormat

	===== [ID] | [Workflow Name (Timestamp)] ===== | 3 entries found.
	[0] Uses_the_ImageMagick @ 2014-03-19 13:11:11.398
	[1] MusicClassificationExperiment @ 2014-03-13 15:11:10.287
	[2] Uses_the_ImageMagick @ 2014-03-13 11:49:07.706
	Your choice: //Enter an ID to process
	
java -jar target\provenanceextractor-1.2-final.jar -u \path\to\updatePerformanceOntology.owl -r 2

	INFO - Choose worklow run (id='c0a7b302-82d5-43c7-bcd3-d315d8cd576a') by ranking number 2.
	// program execution proceeds