Relevance of provenance in the context of FAIR

21.02.2025 | 10:00 - 11:00 h

HMC FAIR Friday

Speaker: Andreas Schreiber, German Aerospace Center (DLR)

Title: The origin of data: Relevance of provenance in the context of FAIR

Date: Friday, 21 February 2025, 10 am CET

Provenance serves as the backbone of the FAIR principles by ensuring transparency, traceability, and trustworthiness. It provides the information necessary to understand, trust, and effectively use data, making it truly FAIR. Without proper provenance, data would lack the contextual information needed to realize the full potential of the FAIR Principles.

The talk will introduce provenance concepts, explain FAIR principles, and link the two to show how provenance supports the realization of FAIR data.

About the speaker: Andreas Schreiber is head of the Department for Intelligent and Distributed Systems at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), located in Berlin, Braunschweig, Bremen, Cologne, and Oberpfaffenhofen (near Munich). He studied industrial mathematics at Clausthal University of Technology and worked in the German Armed Forces and at Argonne National Laboratory. His research fields include complex systems, provenance, trustworthy and explainable AI, graph visualization, software visualization, and software analytics. His mission is to combine these fields to creative cutting-edge software systems to solve challenging tasks in aeronautics and space research. Since more than 20 years, Andreas does research related to provenance for improving explainability, traceability, and trust of distributed systems and intelligent AI-based software; with a focus on visualisazion and visual analytics of provenance. He is also an Open Source and Open Science advocate at DLR. Andreas actively uses Python since 1992, is (former) chair of PyCon DE, and organized events for Python, such as the workshop series Python for High-Performance and Scientific Computing (PyHPC) or PyData Cologne. He co-founded Medando, a startup that develops mobile health apps for Android that support personalized medicine, independent living, and self-tracking (Quantified Self).

Registration open until 21 February 2025, 09:45 am: https://events.hifis.net/event/2057
(For organizational reasons, we cannot guarantee participation for registrations after 09:45 am)




The Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC) invites you to engage in an exciting series of talks on FAIR Data through the HMC FAIR Friday lecture series. Renowned experts from around the world will present key aspects of FAIR data, offering deep dives into the topic and sparking discussions on best practices and new perspectives. HMC FAIR Friday is aimed at professionals in research data management as well as researchers from all disciplines of the Helmholtz Association and beyond, who want to learn more about the importance and implementation of FAIR principles.