The Rationale of PROV
The Rationale of PROV
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 inter-operability, a roadmap for alternate investigations and improvements, and solid foundations for future standardization activities.
Moreau, Luc
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Groth, Paul
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Cheney, James
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Lebo, Timothy
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Miles, Simon
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Moreau, Luc
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Groth, Paul
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Cheney, James
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Lebo, Timothy
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Miles, Simon
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Moreau, Luc, Groth, Paul, Cheney, James, Lebo, Timothy and Miles, Simon
(2015)
The Rationale of PROV.
Web Semantics: Science Services and Agents on the World Wide Web.
(doi:10.1016/j.websem.2015.04.001).
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 inter-operability, a roadmap for alternate investigations and improvements, and solid foundations for future standardization activities.
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Submitted date: March 2015
Accepted/In Press date: 3 April 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 20 April 2015
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/375233
ISSN: 1570-8268
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