PMAF
Pedigree Management Assessment Framework
A customizable patent pending framework for writing, retrieving and assessing information pedigree and other metadata that determines the quality of information.  PMAF works in concert with both new and existing applications to generate and store the history of information objects, and to query that pedigree metadata to evaluate the level of trust that can be placed in the information.
                 

PMAF Features

General-purpose, extensible framework for net-centric information systems

Writes and queries pedigree metadata in a volume-efficient distributed format

Writes and queries pedigree metadata at a fine-grained level

Figure 1. Complete Pedigree Graph
     
           

What Kinds of information and Metadata?

     
Documents: Author, Date of creation        
Web pages: Web Address, Date of last modification    
Images: Resolution, Time of capture        
Sensors: Accuracy, Location        
Web services:  Resources used, Algorithm used
Software agents: Creator, Data format
Figure 2. Display of Main Document Pedigree
All: "Contains”, “Replaces”, modifications, feedback..
 
   
       
                 

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