CSIRO Collaboration

Site visit, October 2010

Patrick West, Stephan Zednik

CSIRO

• Australia’s national science agency• Diverse scientific research organization, working in areas of

hydrology, astronomy, energy, the environment, manufacturing, mining and minerals, oceans and coasts, transportation and infrastructure

• Offices all over the country working with many other organizations and agencies around the country and around the world

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Provenance Requirements

• Data collected by sensors located around the South Esk Area and owned by multiple agencies

• Data pulled from agency sites, stored locally, processed and transformed

• Flow forecast model created from the observations and used to make decisions that impact farmers, the environment, and the localities

TWC Role with CSIRO

Seriously

• Defining the problem space

• Discovering provenance collection pts

• Modeling using WaterML/SensorML, Observations & Measurements (O&M) and PML

• Infrastructure design and development

• Motivation

• Validation

• Confidence

Meetings and Discussions

• Project Overview

• Modeling exercises

• Working with SensorML and O&M

• Discussions about Provenance– What is and is not provenance– Internal provenance vs External

• Provenance Capture

• Architecture/Infrastructure

Provenance Workshop

• Wednesday, second week

• Different stake holders from around Australia

• Stephan presented “What is Provenance”– http://tw.rpi.edu/portal/SWaMP_Presentations

• Breakout sessions

• In the end, Andrew’s group was given the green light

Representing TWC

• Thursday of second week

• Presentation to CSIRO groups– Who we are– What we do– The Semantic Web– Provenance– Q&A

Social Interaction

More Information

• http://tw.rpi.edu/portal/SWaMP

• http://tw.rpi.edu/portal/SWaMP

• http://allone.weblog.com/ (my blog)