Data Provenance in Economical Database Design

The data provenance describes the producing of data and evolves with the time. It has many application fields, such as evaluation of data quality, audit trail, replication recipes, data citation, etc. This paper emphasizes on describing about how data is generated and evolves with time going on, and gives an example of Data Provenance in Economical Database Design to describe the application of data provenance in economic. The research efforts of uncertain data provenance to track the derivation of data and uncertainty are also summarized. Finally this paper lists applications of the data provenance, discusses the main challenges, and points out some research issues in future.