The Rationale of PROV

Luc Moreau, Paul Groth, James Cheney, Tim Lebo, Simon Miles

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Abstract

The PROV family of documents are the final output of the World Wide Web Consortium Provenance Working Group, chartered to specify a representation of provenance to facilitate its exchange over the Web. This article reflects upon the key requirements, guiding principles, and design decisions that influenced the PROV family of documents. A broad range of requirements were found, relating to the key concepts necessary for describing provenance, such as resources, activities, agents and events, and to balancing PROV’s ease of use with the facility to check its validity. By this retrospective requirement analysis, the article aims to provide some insights into how PROV turned out as it did and why. Benefits of this insight include better interoperability, a roadmap for alternate investigations and improvements, and solid foundations for future standardization activities.
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages27
JournalJournal of Web Semantics
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 2015

Keywords

  • Provenance
  • Standardisation

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