The document discusses the transition from research objects to reproducible science, emphasizing the importance of reproducibility in scientific research. It outlines challenges such as data interchange and the need for transparency, alongside initiatives like the NSF Whole Tale project aimed at supporting reproducibility through improved documentation and community practices. Ultimately, it highlights the significance of computational provenance in understanding scientific workflows and results.

1. From Research Objects to
Reproducible Science Tales
Bertram Ludäscher
ludaesch@illinois.edu
Director, Center for Informatics Research in Science & Scholarship (CIRSS)
School of Information Sciences (iSchool@Illinois)
& National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
& Department of Computer Science (CS@Illinois)
Southampton
UK
2019-11-121

2. Outline
• Crisis Time? Manifesto Time!
• Terminology
• Research Objects - A Long March
• ROs & Reproducibility: Cui Bono?
• A call to action: Transparency Action ..
From ROs to Reproducible Science 2

3. Manifesto Time!
Never enough …
From ROs to Reproducible Science 3

4. From ROs to Reproducible Science 4

5. From ROs to Reproducible Science 5

6. From ROs to Reproducible Science 6

7. Terminology Time!
Yeah, but I said that yesterday ..
From ROs to Reproducible Science 7

8. From ROs to Reproducible Science 8

9. From ROs to Reproducible Science 9

10. From ROs to Reproducible Science 10

11. Plurality: Let’s be community
specific
… and more manifestos!
From ROs to Reproducible Science 11

12. From ROs to Reproducible Science 12

13. From ROs to Reproducible Science 13

14. Back to the big picture
Research Objects
FAIR-dom
From ROs to Reproducible Science 14

15. From ROs to Reproducible Science 15

16. Tool Envy Syndrome (TES)
Maybe we should be working on
conceptual foundations and ask:
I can haz some
Reproducibility Platform?

17. How Perl Saved the Human Genome Project
• The Perl Journal, http://www.tpj.com
• By Lincoln Stein
• DATE: Early February, 1996
• LOCATION: Cambridge, England, in the conference room of the largest DNA
sequencing center in Europe.
• OCCASION: A high level meeting between the computer scientists of this center
and the largest DNA sequencing center in the United States.
• THE PROBLEM: Although the two centers use almost identical laboratory
techniques, almost identical databases, and almost identical data analysis tools,
they still can't interchange data or meaningfully compare results.
• THE SOLUTION: Perl
From ROs to Reproducible Science 17
• … Most groups, however, learned to build modular, loosely-coupled systems whose parts could be
swapped in and out without retooling the whole system:
• First there's a basic quality check on the sequence: is it long enough? Are the number of ambiguous
leMers below the maximum limit? Then the vector check ensures that only human DNA gets into the
database. Next there's a check for repeTTve sequences … penulOmate step is to aMempt to match
the new sequence against other sequences in a large community database of DNA sequences ….
APer performing all these checks, the sequence along with the informaOon that's been gathered
about it [provenance!] along the way is loaded into the local laboratory database.

18. Tool Envy Syndrome (TES)
Maybe we should be working on
conceptual foundations and ask:
I can haz some
reduce-sillity-platforms?

19. A Reproducibility Platform …
errors galore
• Reproducibility platform
• … Reproducility platform
• … Reproduce-sillity platform
• è Debuggers!
• … Reduce-sillity platform
• è The Vision
• Helmut Schmidt: “Wer Visionen hat soll zum Arzt
gehen!” (If you have visions, go see a doctor!)
From ROs to Reproducible Science 19

20. • … NSF SKOPE: system and tools to discover,
access, analyze, visualize paleoenvironmental
data
– unprecedented ability to explore provenance
(detailed, comprehensible record of computa:onal
deriva:on of results)
– for researchers, :nkerers, and modelers
• … NSF Whole Tale:
– leverage & contribute to exisAng CI to support the
whole tale (“living paper”), from workflow run to
scholarly publica:on
– integrate tools & CI (DataONE, Globus, iRODS,
NDS, ...) to simplify use and promote best
pracAces.
– driven by science WGs (Archaeology/SKOPE,
materials science, astro, biodiversity informa:cs ..)
Enter the tool makers
From ROs to Reproducible Science 20

21. Whole Tale: The next step in the evolution of the
scholarly article: The “Living [Frozen?] Paper”
• 1st Generation:
– narrative (prose)
• 2nd Generation: plus …
– name .. identify .. include (access to) data
• 3rd Generation: plus …
– name .. reference .. include code (software) ..
– and provenance … and exec environment (containers)
Ludäscher: Why-Not Provenance 21
Whole Tale
Whole Tale Dashboard

22. Whole Tale Vision
Tale
Data
{ Code
D1PROV
22

23. WT Architecture
23Ludäscher: Why-Not Provenance
https://dashboard.
wholetale.org

24. Example Tale:
LIGO gravitational wave detection
(tutorial Jupyter notebook)

25. Ludäscher: Why-Not Provenance 25
h"ps://dashboard.wholetale.org

26. ROs ... Whole Tale
… are we done here?
From ROs to Reproducible Science 26

27. The return of the R* brouhaha
From ROs to Reproducible Science 27

28. In a nutshell
• Computa/onal reproducibility
=/=>
• Scien/fic reproducibility
• Transparency to the rescue!
• What’s the goal again?
• And what informa/on gain is implied by
– a successful reproducibility study (alright … )
– a failed reproducibility study (K Popper says ‘Hi’!)
– a non-conclusive reproducibility study
From ROs to Reproducible Science 28

29. Reproducibility Crisis (reprised)
• Successful reproducibility study:
• increases trust in prior study J
• … but no surprises L
• Failed reproducibility study :
• decreases trust (or falsifies) prior study L
• … but surprising failure yields new info/knowledge J
• Learning from failures!
– Not really a new, revolutionary idea..
– What is a positive vs negative result anyways?
– ... fail early, fail often ...
On Provenance 29

30. PRIMAD (what have you “primed”?)
On Provenance 30
Dagstuhl Seminar #16041 Report Outputs = Exec(M,I,P,D) | RO, A
- M = parsimony/bootstrap/..
- I = package XYZ
- P = MacOS ..
- D = (Params, Files)

31. PRIMAD (what have you “primed”?)
On Provenance 31
Dagstuhl Seminar #16041 Report

32. From ROs to Reproducible Science 32

33. Query evaluation
game
EDB: e(a,b), e(b,b)
a b
tc(X,Y) :- e(X,Y) # (1)--e(X,Y)-->(2)
tc(X,Y) :- # (1)--exists:Z-->(3)
e(X,Z), # (3)->(4)-e(X,Z)->(5)
tc(Z,Y). # (3)--X:=Z-->(1) 2
3
1
X := Z
4 5
e(X,Y)
exists:Z
e(X,Z)
3:(b,b,b) 1
1:(b,b) 11
4:(b,b) 1
1
1:(a,b) 1
3:(a,b,a) 1
2:(a,b) 01
3:(a,b,b) 1
2
2
3:(b,b,a) 1
2:(b,b) 01
4:(a,b) 1 5:(a,b) 01
5:(b,b) 01
3:(a,a,a) 1
4:(a,a) 0
1
1:(a,a) 2
1
3:(b,a,a) 1
4:(b,a) 0
1
1
1
1
3:(a,a,b) 2 1:(b,a) 2 3:(b,a,b) 2
Provenance’12 @Dagstuhl
with JanVdB TJ Green
Flum, Kubierschky, Ludäscher, Total and partial well-founded
Datalog coincide, ICDT-The-Bag-1997, Delphi, Greece
Eureka!
33Provenance @ SBBD'16

34. A rant …
Didn’t you come here for this?
From ROs to Reproducible Science 34

35. The Evolution of Language
– Peter Buneman for Phil Wadler
35
The Evolution of Language
2x (Descartes)
x. 2x (Church)
(LAMBDA (X) (* 2 X)) (McCarthy)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<LAMBDA-TERM>
<VAR-LIST>
<VAR>X</VAR>
</VAR-LIST>
<EXPR>
<APPLICATION>
<EXPR><CONST>*</CONST></EXPR>
<ARGUMENT-LIST>
<EXPR><CONST>2</CONST></EXPR>
<EXPR><VAR>X</VAR></EXPR>
</ARGUMENT-LIST>
</APPLICATION>
</EXPR>
</LAMBDA-TERM>
(W3C)
Thesis:
• There’s no problem that can’t be
tackled by another level of
indirec5on.
An5thesis:
• Adding levels of indirec=on gets you
further away from solving your
problem.
• ... or worse:
Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which
everything is possible but nothing of
interest is easy.
-- Alan Perlis in Epigrams on Programming
From ROs to Reproducible Science

36. Beware of Techno(re)ligion:
Great ideas are simple; frozen accidents aren’t …
• Geo-/Helio-centric
model
• Evolution by Natural
Selection
• Structure of DNA
• Genetic Code
• Relativity
• …
• Logic
F = A | F/F | -F | (ex x) F
36
vs
From ROs to Reproducible Science

37. Thinking Tools
From ROs to Reproducible Science 37
You can’t do much carpentry with your bare hands,
and you can’t do much thinking with your bare brain
– Bo Dahlbom (via D. Dennett)

38. Why we need Thinking Tools
• How do we analyze metadata models, schemas,
integrity constraints, taxonomies, ontologies, …
• … or the big picture: what do we mean by …
provenance? Reproducibility in science?
• From Thinking Tools to …. “Tool Tools”?
From ROs to Reproducible Science 38

39. Provenance as an Intuition Pump for
Understanding what happened!
(Frozen Accidents Edition)
Zrzavý, Jan, David Storch, and Stanislav
Mihulka. Evolu?on: Ein Lese-Lehrbuch.
Springer-Verlag, 2009.
Author: Jkwchui (Based on
drawing by Truth-seeker2004)
From ROs to Reproducible Science 39

40. Thinking about provenance
What provenance?
From ROs to Reproducible Science 40

41. Those who can’t remember the past …
– … are forced to repeat it!
• Provenance in
– ... scien&fic workflows
• First (second, third, ...) Provenance Challenge
• ... OPM ... W3C incubator ... W3C PROV ...
– ... databases
• Why, Where, How, ...., Why-NOT, ...
– ... programming languages
– ...
– ... logic-based KR (NMR, ...)
From ROs to Reproducible Science 41

42. Ludäscher: Why-Not Provenance 42

43. Computational Provenance …
• Origin, processing history of artifacts
– data products, figures, ...
– also: underlying workflow
è understand methods, dataflow, and dependencies
From ROs to Reproducible Science 43
Climate Change Impacts
in the United States
U.S. National Climate Assessment
U.S. Global Change Research Program

44. João F. Pimentel, Saumen Dey, Timothy McPhillips,
Khalid Belhajjame, David Koop, Leonardo Murta,
Vanessa Braganholo, Bertram Ludäscher
Yin & Yang: Demonstrating complementary
provenance from noWorkflow &
YesWorkflow

45. module.__build_class__
module.__build_class__
simulate_data_collection
180 return
180 run_logger
201 return
201 new_image_file
230 parser
231 cassette_id
236 add_option
241 add_option
246 add_option
248 set_usage
251 parse_args
251 args
251 options
254 module.len
24 cassette_id
24 sample_score_cutoff
24 data_redundancy
24 calibration_image_file
30 exists
33 exists
32 filepath
34 module.remove
33 exists
32 filepath
34 module.remove
33 exists
32 filepath
34 module.remove
36 run_log
37 write
38 str(sample_score_cutoff)
38 write
38 str(sample_score_cutoff)
49 str.format
49 sample_spreadsheet_file
50 spreadsheet_rows
cassette_q55_spreadsheet.csv
50 spreadsheet_rows(sample_spreadsheet_file)
51 str.format 51 write
50 sample_name
50 sample_quality
61 calculate_strategy
61 rejected_sample
61 energies
61 accepted_sample
61 num_images
72 str.format
72 write
73 open
73 rejection_log
74 str.format
74 TextIOWrapper.write
50 spreadsheet_rows
50 spreadsheet_rows(sample_spreadsheet_file)
51 str.format
51 write
50 sample_name
50 sample_quality
61 calculate_strategy
61 rejected_sample
61 energies
61 accepted_sample
61 num_images
90 str.format
90 write
91 sample_id
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image
calibration.img
106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format 93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image
106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer 120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format 106 transform_image 106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format 93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image 106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw') 93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image 106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image
106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
50 spreadsheet_rows
50 spreadsheet_rows(sample_spreadsheet_file)
51 str.format
51 write
50 sample_name
50 sample_quality
61 calculate_strategy
61 rejected_sample
61 energies
61 accepted_sample
61 num_images
90 str.format
90 write
91 sample_id
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image
106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file 120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image
106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer 120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image 106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open 119 collection_log_file 120 module.writer 120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image
106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file 120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
50 spreadsheet_rows
128 return
run/run_log.txt
run/rejected_samples.txt
run/raw/q55/DRT240/e10000/image_001.raw
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_10000eV_001.img
run/collected_images.csv
run/raw/q55/DRT240/e10000/image_002.raw
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_10000eV_002.img
run/raw/q55/DRT240/e11000/image_001.raw
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_11000eV_001.img
run/raw/q55/DRT240/e11000/image_002.raw
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_11000eV_002.img
run/raw/q55/DRT240/e12000/image_001.raw
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_12000eV_001.img
run/raw/q55/DRT240/e12000/image_002.raw
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_12000eV_002.img
run/raw/q55/DRT322/e10000/image_001.raw
run/data/DRT322/DRT322_10000eV_001.img
run/raw/q55/DRT322/e10000/image_002.raw
run/data/DRT322/DRT322_10000eV_002.img
run/raw/q55/DRT322/e11000/image_001.raw
run/data/DRT322/DRT322_11000eV_001.img
run/raw/q55/DRT322/e11000/image_002.raw
run/data/DRT322/DRT322_11000eV_002.img
noWorkflow:
not only
Workflow!
• Scripts have provenance, too!
• Transparently capture some/all
provenance from Python script
runs.
• Use filter queries to “zoom” into
relevant parts ..
Provenance @ SBBD'16

46. simulate_data_collection
230 parser = <optparse.OptionParser object at 0x7fcb6e16e3c8>
251 parse_args = (<Values at 0x7fcb6cbe15c ... cutoff': 12.0}>, ['q55'])
251 args = ['q55']
251 options = <Values at 0x7fcb6cbe15c0 ... ple_score_cutoff': 12.0}>
24 cassette_id = 'q55'
24 sample_score_cutoff = 12.0 24 data_redundancy = 0.0
24 calibration_image_file = 'calibration.img'
49 str.format
49 sample_spreadsheet_file = 'cassette_q55_spreadsheet.csv'
50 spreadsheet_rows(sample_spreadsheet_file)
50 sample_name = 'DRT240'50 sample_quality = 45
61 calculate_strategy = ('DRT240', None, 2, [10000, 11000, 12000])
61 accepted_sample = 'DRT240'61 num_images = 2
61 energies = [10000, 11000, 12000] 91 sample_id = 'DRT240'
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
92 energy = 11000 92 frame_number = 292 raw_image_file = 'run/raw/q55/DRT240/e11000/image_002.raw'
106 str.format
106 transform_image = (980, 10, 'run/data/DRT240/DRT240_11000eV_002.img')
calibration.img
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_11000eV_002.img
$ now dataflow -f "run/data/DRT240/DRT240_11000eV_002.img"
$(NW_FILTERED_LINEAGE_GRAPH).gv: $(NW_FACTS)
now helper df_style.py
now dataflow -v 55 -f
$(RETROSPECTIVE_LINEAGE_VALUE) -m simulation
| python df_style.py -d BT -e >
$(NW_FILTERED_LINEAGE_GRAPH).gv
.. auto-“make” this!
noWorkflow lineage
of an image file
Provenance information
about Python function calls,
variable assignments, etc.
Provenance @ SBBD'16

47. simulate_data_collection
initialize_run
run_log load_screening_results
sample_namesample_quality
calculate_strategy
accepted_samplerejected_sample num_imagesenergies
log_rejected_sample
rejection_log
collect_data_set
sample_id energyframe_number raw_image
transform_images
corrected_imagetotal_intensitypixel_count
log_average_image_intensity
collection_log
sample_spreadsheet
calibration_image
sample_score_cutoffdata_redundancy
cassette_id
YesWorkflow: Yes, scripts are Workflows, too!
• Use YW annotations
@begin...@end, @in,
@out to reveal hidden
conceptual workflow
(prospective provenance)
• Script isn't changed:
– annotations via comments
(=> language independent)
• For understanding and
sharing the “big picture”
• Query and visualize!
Provenance @ SBBD'16

48. simulate_data_collection
initialize_run
run_log load_screening_results
sample_namesample_quality
calculate_strategy
accepted_samplerejected_sample num_imagesenergies
log_rejected_sample
rejection_log
collect_data_set
sample_id energyframe_number raw_image
transform_images
corrected_imagetotal_intensitypixel_count
log_average_image_intensity
collection_log
sample_spreadsheet
calibration_image
sample_score_cutoffdata_redundancy
cassette_id
simulate_data_collection
collect_data_set
sample_id energy frame_number raw_image
calculate_strategy
accepted_sample num_imagesenergies
load_screening_results
sample_namesample_quality
transform_images
corrected_image
sample_spreadsheet
calibration_image
sample_score_cutoff data_redundancy
cassette_id
module.__build_class__
module.__build_class__
simulate_data_collection
180 return
180 run_logger
201 return
201 new_image_file
230 parser
231 cassette_id
236 add_option
241 add_option
246 add_option
248 set_usage
251 parse_args
251 args
251 options
254 module.len
24 cassette_id
24 sample_score_cutoff
24 data_redundancy
24 calibration_image_file
30 exists
33 exists
32 filepath
34 module.remove
33 exists
32 filepath
34 module.remove
33 exists
32 filepath
34 module.remove
36 run_log
37 write
38 str(sample_score_cutoff)
38 write
38 str(sample_score_cutoff)
49 str.format
49 sample_spreadsheet_file
50 spreadsheet_rows
cassette_q55_spreadsheet.csv
50 spreadsheet_rows(sample_spreadsheet_file)
51 str.format 51 write
50 sample_name
50 sample_quality
61 calculate_strategy
61 rejected_sample
61 energies
61 accepted_sample
61 num_images
72 str.format
72 write
73 open
73 rejection_log
74 str.format
74 TextIOWrapper.write
50 spreadsheet_rows
50 spreadsheet_rows(sample_spreadsheet_file)
51 str.format
51 write
50 sample_name
50 sample_quality
61 calculate_strategy
61 rejected_sample
61 energies
61 accepted_sample
61 num_images
90 str.format
90 write
91 sample_id
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image
calibration.img
106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format 93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image
106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer 120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format 106 transform_image 106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format 93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image 106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw') 93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image 106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image
106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
50 spreadsheet_rows
50 spreadsheet_rows(sample_spreadsheet_file)
51 str.format
51 write
50 sample_name
50 sample_quality
61 calculate_strategy
61 rejected_sample
61 energies
61 accepted_sample
61 num_images
90 str.format
90 write
91 sample_id
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image
106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file 120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image
106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file
120 module.writer 120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image 106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open 119 collection_log_file 120 module.writer 120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
93 str.format
93 write
92 energy
92 frame_number
92 intensity
92 raw_image_file
106 str.format
106 transform_image
106 corrected_image_file
106 total_intensity
106 pixel_count
107 str.format
107 write
118 average_intensity
119 open
119 collection_log_file 120 module.writer
120 collection_log
121 writer.writerow
92 collect_next_image
50 spreadsheet_rows
128 return
run/run_log.txt
run/rejected_samples.txt
run/raw/q55/DRT240/e10000/image_001.raw
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_10000eV_001.img
run/collected_images.csv
run/raw/q55/DRT240/e10000/image_002.raw
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_10000eV_002.img
run/raw/q55/DRT240/e11000/image_001.raw
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_11000eV_001.img
run/raw/q55/DRT240/e11000/image_002.raw
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_11000eV_002.img
run/raw/q55/DRT240/e12000/image_001.raw
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_12000eV_001.img
run/raw/q55/DRT240/e12000/image_002.raw
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_12000eV_002.img
run/raw/q55/DRT322/e10000/image_001.raw
run/data/DRT322/DRT322_10000eV_001.img
run/raw/q55/DRT322/e10000/image_002.raw
run/data/DRT322/DRT322_10000eV_002.img
run/raw/q55/DRT322/e11000/image_001.raw
run/data/DRT322/DRT322_11000eV_001.img
run/raw/q55/DRT322/e11000/image_002.raw
run/data/DRT322/DRT322_11000eV_002.img
simulate_data_collection
230 parser = <optparse.OptionParser object at 0x7fcb6e16e3c8>
251 parse_args = (<Values at 0x7fcb6cbe15c ... cutoff': 12.0}>, ['q55'])
251 args = ['q55']
251 options = <Values at 0x7fcb6cbe15c0 ... ple_score_cutoff': 12.0}>
24 cassette_id = 'q55'
24 sample_score_cutoff = 12.0 24 data_redundancy = 0.0
24 calibration_image_file = 'calibration.img'
49 str.format
49 sample_spreadsheet_file = 'cassette_q55_spreadsheet.csv'
50 spreadsheet_rows(sample_spreadsheet_file)
50 sample_name = 'DRT240'50 sample_quality = 45
61 calculate_strategy = ('DRT240', None, 2, [10000, 11000, 12000])
61 accepted_sample = 'DRT240'61 num_images = 2
61 energies = [10000, 11000, 12000] 91 sample_id = 'DRT240'
92 collect_next_image(casset ... _{frame_number:03d}.raw')
92 energy = 11000 92 frame_number = 292 raw_image_file = 'run/raw/q55/DRT240/e11000/image_002.raw'
106 str.format
106 transform_image = (980, 10, 'run/data/DRT240/DRT240_11000eV_002.img')
calibration.img
run/data/DRT240/DRT240_11000eV_002.img
lineage query
lineage query
YesWorkflow:
Conceptual workflow model
noWorkflow:
Python trace model
But how do we
bridge this gap???
Would like to use YW
model to query NW
data!
Provenance @ SBBD'16

49. Habemus Pons!
We’ve got the Bridge!
The bridge is the journey..
(The journey is the destination)
Lineage of image file
in terms of YW
model, with details
from NW provenance
Provenance @ SBBD'16

50. Computa(onal Thinking: Die Grenzen meiner
Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt …
• Vanilla Process Network
• Functional Programming
Dataflow Network
• XML Transformation
Network
• Collection-oriented
Modeling & Design
framework (COMAD)
– Look Ma: No Shims!
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51. Tool Envy Syndrome (TES)
Maybe we should be working on
conceptual foundations and ask:
I can haz some
Terminology Tools?

52. 52
Y X X YX Y X Y X Y
Congruence
X == Y
Inclusion
X > Y
Inverse Inclusion
X < Y
Overlap
X>< Y
Disjointness
X ! Y
Origins:
Euler diagrams ...
... limited FO reasoning
... RCC-5++ reasoning
Applica:on: Geo-Taxonomy Alignment
The secret sauce inside: Moved from FO reasoner to … qualitative reasoning
(RCC-5) to … Answer Set Programming (ASP) + some more secret sauce
Taxonomy Alignment Problem
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53. • Euler/X project employs
qualitative reasoning (RCC-5),
implemented in ASP to align,
merge taxonomies, debug
alignments, etc.
53
Reasoning with Incomplete Knowledge:
Exploring Possible Worlds
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54. The long march to ROs & Reproducible Science
We're off to see the Wizard,
The wonderful Wizard of Prov!
--
We hear he is a wiz of a wiz
If ever a wiz there was.
--
If ever, oh ever, a wiz there was,
The Wizard of Prov is one because,
Because, because, because, because, because,
Because of the wonderful things he does.
Provenance @ SBBD'16

55. Meanwhile in a galaxy far far away…
Semantic Web Stuff
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W3C Activities in Developing New Query Languages
[Man15] R. MAN TH EY . Back to the Future – Should SQL Surrender to SPARQL? SOFSEM, LNCS,
2015.

56. Are we caught in a strange loop?
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[Man15] R. MANTHEY . Back to the Future – Should SQL Surrender to SPARQL? SOFSEM, LNCS, 2015.

57. The long march begins …
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58. From ROs to Reproducible Science 58

59. Self-valida*ng Knowledge-based ROS?
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60. Actionable Transparency
• Transparency vs Re-executability
• In the beginning was the Question!
– … then came the (logic) rule
– ... in the form of a query!
• Semantics anyone?
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61. From ROs to Reproducible Science 61
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62. What (& where) is Semantics?
How (& what) to do (with) Semantics?
• The Meaning Triangle
• Controlled Vocabularies ..
Terminological Logics (DLs) ..
Ontologies
• (Relational) Structures
• A query is a question about a
concept!
– Is this graph bipartite?
– Demonstrate, show, prove
• .. hat it is!
• .. that it isn’t! 62From ROs to Reproducible Science

63. Answer Set Programming: a superpower for “doing semantics”
• ASP = DB+LP+KR+SAT
• Reasoning spectrum: …queries … constraint solving
• … OWL/DL, FO, SQL, Datalog, ..., ASP, ...
• ASP occupies a “sweet spot”
• ... but needs GTD extensions:
• PWE = ASP
+ Python
+ Jupyter
63h"ps://github.com/idaks/PWE-demos
From ROs to Reproducible Science

64. ASP + PWE: Possible Worlds Explorer
64
https://github.com/idaks/PW-explorer https://github.com/idaks/PWE-demosFrom ROs to Reproducible Science

65. 65From ROs to Reproducible Science

66. Lowest Common Ancestors (LCAs)
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67. Visualized in PWE via Python under the hood!
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68. … for a few Python LOCs more …
(growing the target audience)
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69. … we get highlighting of the LCAs!
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70. “Boring” (ASCII) answer sets become
informative Timeline Visualization
(Here: IC Checking & Repair rules!)
From ROs to Reproducible Science 70

71. … visualizing clusters of PWs (answer sets) …
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… easily plug in different
ranking/distance/similarity functions!

72. … to discover additional structure!
• … discover similar (here:
isomorphic) solutions
• … and display them!
From ROs to Reproducible Science 72

73. Conclusion I
• Clarifying what we mean by reproducibility
• Identifying tool & thinking gaps
• Bridging gaps
• Empowering the many (long tail)
• Turbocharging the specialists
From ROs to Reproducible Science 73

74. Conclusion II: Actionable Thinking Tools!
• Possible Worlds Explorer (PWE):
– loosely coupling (= wrapping) Datalog & ASP systems
• DLV, clingo, …, XSB, … , <you-name-it>
– … with Python
– … and Jupyter notebooks
=> where the users are!
=> leveraging Python, Pandas, … analytics and visualization!
• Datalog & ASP for the rest of us!
– … and for LP / DB-Theory gurus :-)
• Work in progress
– join or fork: https://github.com/idaks/PW-explorer
– or talk, to get started: ludaesch@Illinois.edu
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