Abstract

Provenance is information about entities, activities, and people involved in producing a piece of data or thing, which can be used to form assessments about its quality, reliability or trustworthiness. PROV-DM is the conceptual data model that forms a basis for the W3C provenance (PROV) family of specifications. PROV-DM distinguishes core structures, forming the essence of provenance information, from extended structures catering for more specific uses of provenance. PROVDM is organized in six components, respectively dealing with:(1) entities and activities, and the time at which they were created, used, or ended;(2) derivations of entities from entities;(3) agents bearing responsibility for entities that were generated and activities that happened;(4) a notion of bundle, a mechanism to support provenance of provenance;(5) properties to link entities that refer to the same thing; and,(6) collections forming a logical structure for its members.

Date

2013

Authors

Khalid Belhajjame, Reza B’Far, James Cheney, Sam Coppens, Stephen Cresswell, Yolanda Gil, Paul Groth, Graham Klyne, Timothy Lebo, Jim McCusker, Simon Miles, James Myers, Satya Sahoo, Curt Tilmes

Journal

W3C Recommendation

Volume

14

Pages

15-16

Publisher

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)