Alpaca - Automated Lightweight Provenance Capture¶
Alpaca is a Python package for the capture of provenance information during the execution of Python scripts that process data.
Alpaca provides a simple API for recording the details of the functions being executed, the data flow, and a description of parameters used. This is accomplished with minimal code instrumentation and user intervention.
Provenance information is structured and serialized according to a model based on the W3C PROV format.
Examples are provided for the analysis of electrophysiology data, using the open source packages Neo and Elephant. See Köhler et al. (2023) for a detailed description on how to capture and interpret provenance trails generated by Alpaca.
Visit the project page on GitHub, to report bugs and issues, or to make contributions to the source code.
