One of the things that makes UMBC great is how wonderful our alumni, students, faculty and staff are. Because of these amazing people, UMBC often finds itself “in the news,” so each week, we’ll be sharing with you a round-up of the most newsworthy achievements from our community.

• ‘N. Jay Jaffee Photographs from Public to Personal’ Reviewed in the Baltimore Sun
• Ann Christine Frankowski, Center for Aging Studies, in The New York Times
• Project by Charlotte Keniston, IMDA, in Peace Corps Blog
• Artwork by Jason Hughes, IMDA, in the New York Times

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In the first Ebiquity meeting of the semester, Vlad Korolev will talk about his work on using RDF for to capture, represent and use provenance information for big data experiments.

PROB: A tool for Tracking Provenance and Reproducibility of Big Data Experiments

10-11:30am, ITE346, UMBC

Reproducibility of computations and data provenance are very important goals to achieve in order to improve the quality of one’s research. Unfortunately, despite some efforts made in the past, it is still very hard to reproduce computational experiments with high degree of certainty. The Big Data phenomenon in recent years makes this goal even harder to achieve. In this work, we propose a tool that aids researchers to improve reproducibility of their experiments through automated keeping of provenance records.