This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Provenance and
Annotation Workshop IPAW 2016 held in McLean VA USA in June 2016. The 12 revised full
papers 14 poster papers and 2 demonstration papers presentedwere carefully reviewed and
selected from 54 submissions. The papers feature state-of-the-art research and practice around
the automatic capture representation and use of provenance. They are organized in topical
sections on provenance capture provenance analysis and visualization and provenance models
and applications.
