Social data provenance framework based on zero-information loss graph database

Abstract

Social media has become a common platform for global communication across the world due to its rapid dissemination of information among a large audience. Its popularity has raised a crucial challenge to capture the social data provenance of a piece of information published on social media. Social data provenance describes the source and deriving process of a digital content, and when it is updated since its existence? It aids in determining reliability, authenticity, and trustworthiness of a piece of information and explaining how, when, and by whom this information is published. In this paper, we propose a social data provenance (SDP) framework based on zero-information loss graph database (ZILGDB). The proposed framework supports historical data queries, and querying through time using updates management in ZILGDB. It has the capability to capture provenance for a query set including select, aggregate, and data update queries with insert, delete, and update operations. It also provides a detailed provenance analysis through visualization and with efficient multi-depth provenance querying support, to determine both direct and indirect sources of a digital content. We conduct a real-life use case study to evaluate the usefulness of proposed framework in terrorist attack investigation. We evaluate the performance of proposed framework in terms of average execution time for various provenance queries, and provenance capturing overhead for a query set.