Archive

• Archive

  In an alternate reality I am sure I would be a librarian.

  With ongoing linkrot and degradation of old Internet content, in particular reference rot from academic literature, it can be hard to find digital content even from as recently as 10 years ago.

  It follows that academics now should be their own library curator, to preserve their own outputs and reference materials.

  In this section I catalogue some of the content and software I have rescued, archived or rediscovered.

• Wf4Ever project Wf4Ever was a research object funded by EU Framework 7 to investigate how scientific workflows and their data could be better preserved for reproducibility, reuse and resiliance against workflow decay.
• What exactly happened to LSID? What exactly happened to LSID? It was a technically sound approach it would seem and one whose failure we would do well to learn more from.
• PROV released as W3C Recommendations

  The Provenance Working Group was chartered to develop a framework for interchanging provenance on the Web. The Working Group has now published the PROV Family of Documents as W3C Recommendations, along with corresponding supporting notes. You can find a complete list of the documents in the PROV Overview Note.
  PROV enables one to represent and interchange provenance information using widely available formats such as RDF and XML. In addition, it provides definitions for accessing provenance information, validating it, and mapping to Dublin Core. Learn more about the Semantic Web.

• W3C PROV Implementations: Preliminary Analysis

  By Khalid Belhajjame, syndicated from https://khalidbelhajjame.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/w3c-prov-implementations/

  In the beginning of December 2012, the W3C Provenance Working Group issued a call for implementations. As of February the 25th 2013, 64 PROV implementations were reported to the W3C Provenance Working Group.

  These implementations took different forms ranging from stand alone applications (30), to reusable frameworks and libraries (10), to services hosted by third parties (9), to vocabularies (21), and constraints validation modules (3).

• Recording authorship, curation and digital creation with the PAV ontology PAV is a lightweight ontology for tracking Provenance, Authoring and Versioning.  PAV supplies terms for distinguishing between the different roles of the agents contributing content in current web based systems: contributors, authors, curators and digital artifact creators. The ontology also provides terms for tracking provenance of digital entities that are published on the web and then accessed, transformed and consumed.
• Tutorial on the W3C PROV family of specifications

  Posted by Khalid Belhajjame

  Provenance, a form of structured metadata designed to record the origin or source of information, can be instrumental in deciding whether information is to be trusted, how it can be integrated with other diverse information sources, and how to establish attribution of information to authors throughout its history.

  The PROV set of specifications, produced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is designed to promote the publication of provenance information on the Web, and offers a basis for interoperability across diverse provenance management systems. The PROV provenance model is deliberately generic and domain-agnostic, but extension mechanisms are available and can be exploited for modelling specific domains.

• What can provenance do for me?

  2013-03-21 What can provenance do for me? from Stian Soiland-Reyes

  Also available on Slideshare, pdf and as pptx.

  The above presentation was originally given at the Metagenomics, metagenetics and Pylogenetic workflows for Ocean Sampling Day Workshop at Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology on 2013-03-21 by Stian Soiland-Reyes. Reuse allowed under the Creative Commons Attribution license 3.0.

• Practical Provenance

  This is an archive of the blog Practical Provenance, previously hosted at https://practicalprovenance.wordpress.com/

  This blog is about how to practically create and use provenance data, in particular using the W3C PROV specifications.

  Students of the course Understanding Data and their Environment (UDatE) at The University of Manchester may prefer this reading order:

  • Validating and visualising PROV
  • PROV-N Cheat sheet
  • Installing ProvToolbox in Windows
  • Installing ProvToolbox on MacOS
  • FAQ: Multiple agents sharing roles
  • FAQ: What are good PROV-N prefixes
  • FAQ: Attribution vs Association

  List of content (2023–2013)

• Stian's web sites in ye olden days

  Archived personal websites

  These are slightly embarrassing archives from more innocent times, preserved so you can see why I didn’t become a Web designer.

  • s11.no ≔ з11.ею (2020–) – The current Hugo-based static website, launched primarily as home for archived HTML pages. Based on ronu-hugo-theme by Deepak Karanth, see stain/s11.no. The alternative domain https://з11.ею/ is available to test UTF-8 support.
  • s11.no (2015–2019) – Bootstrap-based landing page for Søiland Software, linking to whatever development Web services was running at the time.
  • Stian Soiland-Reyes (2007–2020) – While the last blog post was in 2009, this Wordpress site survived another decade before being archived as static pages.
  • La familia Soiland-Reyes (2008–2010) – Website for the Soiland-Reyes wedding in 2008. Archived from Wordpress as static pages.
  • s11 solutions (2004–2006, Internet Archive) – This domain http://s11.no/ used to host a parody of enterprise-targeting IT consultancies of miniscule scale but with grandeur ambitions. See for instance s11 forms new investment opportunity.
  • soiland.no blog (2004–2007, Internet Archive) – first attempt to blog, maintained with Plone until one day an apt-get dist-upgrade left the Zope db unreachable. Note that the Plone CSS is not rendering as intended in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
  • «Stian Søiland» (1999-2005) – My Norwegian blog about student life in Trondheim. Archived from PHP rendering on http://soiland.no/ and previously at http://stain.portveien.to/ and http://stain.nvg.org/ going through several designs: #1 #2 #3
  • Welcome to Stian Søiland’s Homepage (1996) – My very first webpage, slightly redesigned in 1997 – Note that links to 404 Not Found subpages was the norm back then, as all HTML was edited per page. Recovered from old ZIP-drives.