Towards Provenance-Enabling ParaView

Currently, there are no general provenance management sys- tems or tools available for existing applications. Our goal is to develop provenance technology that is flexible and adaptable to the wide range of requirements of software applications. By consolidating provenance in- formation for a variety of applications, we can provide a uniform environ- ment for querying, sharing, and re-using provenance in large-scale, collab- orative settings. In this paper, we describe our framework for provenance- enabling existing applications. Our approach is applicable to a variety of software systems that are process driven. As a concrete example, we describe a working plug-in for an open source application in scientific visualization.