Provenance

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Some fun articles about provenance:

Margo Seltzer's USENIX Annual Tech 2020 (ATC) Keynote
The Fine Line between Bold and Fringe Lunatic discusses provenance issues in the first 15 minutes. She also discusses why we have silos incomputer science:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1FrAiy2-5A
Margo Seltzer's amazing "The State of Provenance" talk.
SLIDES, from February 2019.
Margo Seltzer's paper (and talk) about how we solved provenance!
Provenance: A Future History, by Cheney, Chong, Foster, Seltzer and Vansummeren, discussing how we can get to automated provenance collection.
Report of the First Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance (TaPP '09), appearing in ;login. Yes, this is 10 years earlier than Margo Seltzer's amazing talk. Interestingly, the talk was given at TaPP '09.
How we didn't solve provenance
The provenance-aware storage system:
Provenance-Aware Storage Systems, Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, David A. Holland, Uri Braun, Margo Seltzer, Usenix 2006.
How Simson tried to solve provenance
Digital Forensics XML --- Provenance for digital forensics.
Digital Investigation paper
SLIDES, from 2011.