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2025 The Provenance Chain: Connecting and Reusing Data, Models, and Experiments

2025 The Provenance Chain: Connecting and Reusing Data, Models, and Experiments

 

Introduction and Topics

This provides a description of the proposed topics for the 2025 Dagstuhl workshop on the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF). CDIF is starting to be implemented in a numerous projects, and there are several areas which have been identified as important for near-term focus. The topics for the workshop are intended to contribute to these expansion areas of the CDIF guidelines, based in existing projects and more in-depth explorations. 

While not a separate topic for the workshop, the CDIF guidelines themselves should be updated to reflect findings from the workshop in real time; that is, change requests should be entered into the GitHub repository in a controlled fashion by the editors of the guidelines as the workshop proceeds. In this way, there will be a guaranteed output for consideration by the CDIF Working Group as a whole (well-represented among the workshop participants). This effort does not replace the need for written outputs from the workshop on each of the topics, but serves as a supplement to them.

Having four topics is ideal for such a workshop, given the space available for break-out groups. The topics are:

Agenda, Monday November 17, 2025

09:00–10:30

Welcome; participant introductions, organisational details.

10:30–10:45

Coffee Break

10:45–12:15

CDIF overview and discussion (45 mins); Introduction Group 1 - 'Metadata Mapping and Data Integration’, presentation and discussion (Luis) (45 mins)

12:15–13:45

Lunch

13:45–15:15

Introduction Group 2 - ‘Access’, presentation and discussion (Darren) (45 mins)

Introduction Group 3 - ‘CDIF-4-XAS’, presentation and discussion (Abraham) (45 mins)

15:15–15:30

Coffee Break

15:30–17:00

Introduction Group 4 - ‘Provenance, Context and Quality’, presentation and discussion (Alexandra) (45 mins).

Discussion and division into groups.

Presentations

Rest of Week – Regular Schedule

07:30–08:45

Breakfast

09:00–09:15

Morning Plenary

09:15–10:30

Breakout Groups

10:30–10:45

Coffee Break

10:45–12:15

Breakout Groups

12:15–13:45

Lunch and Walk

13:45–15:15

Plenary/Breakout Groups

15:15–15:30

Coffee Break

15:30–16:15

Breakout Groups

16:15–17:00

Closing Plenary/Discussion

18:00–19:00

Dinner

19:00–20:00

Possible Evening Session(Informal Discussion with Drinks at Own Expense)

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Workshop Summary

TBD after the workshop

Date and Location

The workshop takes place at Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics on November 16 to November 21, 2025. See also the corresponding Dagstuhl web page.

See the separate page for practical information and Schloss Dagstuhl’s Code of Conduct..

Organizers and Participants

Organizers

Participants

  • Patrick Austin, STFC - Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK

  • Darren Bell, UK Data Archive

  • Pierre Luigi Buttigieg, Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research

  • Simon Coles, University of Southampton

  • Mark Dietrich, Bloodstone Consulting OÜ

  • Guillaume Duffes, Insee - French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies

  • Thomas Exner, Seven Past Nine

  • Doug Fils, Independent expert, USA

  • Luis Gerardo Gonzalez Morales, UN Statistical Division

  • Esteban González Guardia, UPM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

  • Donald Hobern, Australian Plant Phenomics Facility

  • Alexandra Kokkinaki, NOC - UK National Oceanography Centre

  • Yann le Franc, eScience Factory

  • Kerstin Lehnert, Columbia University

  • Deirdre Lungley, UK Data Archive

  • Iseult Lynch, University of Birmingham

  • Abraham Nieva de la Hidalga, Cardiff University

  • Steve Richard, Independent expert, USA

  • Vyacheslav Tykhonov, CODATA - Committee on Data of the International Science Council (ISC)