TY - GEN
T1 - The W3C PROV family of specifications for modelling provenance metadata
AU - Missier, Paolo
AU - Belhajjame, Khalid
AU - Cheney, James
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Provenance, a form of structured metadata designed to record the origin or source of information, can be instrumental in deciding whether information is to be trusted, how it can be integrated with other diverse information sources, and how to establish attribution of information to authors throughout its history. The PROV set of specifications, produced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is designed to promote the publication of provenance information on the Web, and offers a basis for interoperability across diverse provenance management systems. The PROV provenance model is deliberately generic and domain-agnostic, but extension mechanisms are available and can be exploited for modelling specific domains. This tutorial provides an account of these specifications. Starting from intuitive and informal examples that present idiomatic provenance patterns, it progressively introduces the relational model of provenance along with the constraints model for validation of provenance documents, and concludes with example applications that show the extension points in use.
AB - Provenance, a form of structured metadata designed to record the origin or source of information, can be instrumental in deciding whether information is to be trusted, how it can be integrated with other diverse information sources, and how to establish attribution of information to authors throughout its history. The PROV set of specifications, produced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is designed to promote the publication of provenance information on the Web, and offers a basis for interoperability across diverse provenance management systems. The PROV provenance model is deliberately generic and domain-agnostic, but extension mechanisms are available and can be exploited for modelling specific domains. This tutorial provides an account of these specifications. Starting from intuitive and informal examples that present idiomatic provenance patterns, it progressively introduces the relational model of provenance along with the constraints model for validation of provenance documents, and concludes with example applications that show the extension points in use.
KW - Design
KW - E [Data]: General
KW - H.2.3 [Database Management]: Languages - Data description languages
KW - Standardization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84876806269&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2452376.2452478
DO - 10.1145/2452376.2452478
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84876806269
SN - 9781450315975
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 773
EP - 776
BT - Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2013
T2 - 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2013
Y2 - 18 March 2013 through 22 March 2013
ER -