Title
Provenance Tracking in the LHCb Software
Abstract
Even though computational reproducibility is widely accepted as necessary for research validation and reuse, it is often not considered during the research process. This is because reproducibility tools are typically stand-alone and require additional training to be employed. In this article, we present a solution to foster reproducibility, which is integrated within existing scientific software that is actively used in the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) collaboration. Our provenance tracking service captures metadata of a dataset, which is then saved inside the output data file on the disk. The captured information allows a complete understanding of how the file was produced and enables a user to reproduce the dataset, even when the original input code (that was used to initially produce the dataset) is altered or lost. This article describes the implementation of the service and gives examples of its application.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/MCSE.2020.2970625
Computing in Science & Engineering
Keywords
DocType
Volume
data provenance,reproducibility
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
1521-9615
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ana Trisovic100.34
Chris R. Jones200.34
Ben Couturier300.34
M. Clemencic400.68