Towards provenance and traceability in CRISTAL for HEP

Shamdasani, Jetendr; Branson, Andrew; McClatchey, Richard

Abstract

This paper discusses the CRISTAL object lifecycle management system and its use in provenance data management and the traceability of system events. This software was initially used to capture the construction and calibration of the CMS ECAL detector at CERN for later use by physicists in their data analysis. Some further uses of CRISTAL in different projects (CMS, neuGRID and N4U) are
presented as examples of its flexible data model. From these examples, applications are drawn for the High Energy Physics domain and some initial ideas for its use in data preservation HEP are outlined in detail in this paper. Currently investigations are underway to gauge the feasibility of using the N4U Analysis Service or a derivative of it to address the requirements of data and analysis logging and provenance capture within the HEP long term data analysis environment.

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: 20th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP13)
• Start Date: Oct 1, 2013
• End Date: Oct 1, 2013
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2013
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 7, 2019
• Journal: arXiv
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: provenance, traceability, CRISTAL, HEP
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/927442
• Related Public URLs: http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.6245v1
• Additional Information: Additional Information : Imported from arXiv; Title of Conference or Conference Proceedings : 20th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP13)