The Provenance Vocabulary provides classes and properties for describing provenance of Web data. The vocabulary focuses on two main use cases: 1.) It enables consumers of Web data to describe provenance of data retrieved from the Web and of data derived from such Web data. 2.) It enables providers of Web data to publish provenance-related metadata about their data. Notice, the vocabulary is not intended for describing provenance of other kinds of Web content. The Provenance Vocabulary is designed as a Web data specific specialization of the W3C PROV Ontology (PROV-O); classes and properties provided by the vocabulary are domain specific extensions of the more general concepts introduced in PROV-O. As a consequence, any Provenance Vocabulary based description of provenance can be easily interpreted and exchanged according to the W3C PROV family of standards.
Provenance Vocabulary Core Ontology namespace
Jun Zhao
Olaf Hartig
This documents specifies the Provenance Vocabulary Core Ontology which defines the main classes and properties provided by the Provenance Vocabulary.
Provenance Vocabulary Core Ontology Specification
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The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) RDF vocabulary, described using W3C RDF Schema and the Web Ontology Language.
This class is deprecated and will be removed from the Provenance Vocabulary in the next revision. prv:Artifact was deprecated in the process of making the Provenance Vocabulary a specialization of W3C's PROV-O. Hence, use prov:Entity (or the more specific prv:Immutable) instead.
Artifact
NonHumanAgent is a general class that represents agents who are not social beings.
Non-Human Agent
A textual geekcode for this person, see http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html
CreationGuideline is a concept that represents a guideline used to guide the execution of a data creation. Examples for creation guidelines are transformation rules, mapping definitions, entailment rules, and database queries.
Creation Guideline
A person known by this person (indicating some level of reciprocated interaction between the parties).
DataItem is a general concept that represents data items of any kind.
Data Item
Provide a grouping of calendar properties that describe a to-do.
This property has been renamed to prv:completedAt. Hence, prv:performedAt is deprecated and will be removed from the Provenance Vocabulary in the next revision.
executed at
This property refers to a creation guideline which guided the execution of a data creation. Examples for creation guidelines are transformation rules, mapping definitions, entailment rules, and database queries. Notice, all creation guidelines have provenance; we strongly encourage to describe this provenance as well, at least as far as available information permits.
guided by
Provide a grouping of component properties that describe an event.
This class is deprecated and will be removed from the Provenance Vocabulary in the next revision. prv:Actor was deprecated in the process of making the Provenance Vocabulary a specialization of W3C's PROV-O. Hence, use one of the more specific classes prv:HumanAgent and prv:NonHumanAgent instead; or, if such a specialization is unsuitable for the use case at hand, directly use the general class prov:Agent as defined by PROV-O.
Actor
An organization funding a project or person.
Indicates the name (identifier) associated with this online account.
DataAccess is a concept that represents the completed execution of an activity by which an immutable data item has been retrieved from the Web.
Data Access
A string expressing what the user is happy for the general public (normally) to know about their current activity.
A checksum for the DNA of some thing. Joke.
This property is deprecated and will be removed from the Provenance Vocabulary in the next revision. prv:involvedActor was deprecated in the process of making the Provenance Vocabulary a specialization of W3C's PROV-O. Hence, use prov:wasAssociatedWith instead.
involved
A page about a topic of interest to this person.
A thing depicted in this representation.
Indicates an account held by this agent.
subject to change with notice to www-rdf-calendar@w3.org
This property refers to a human agent who was operating a non-human agent. For instance, a service provider operates a data providing service (see concept prv:DataProvidingService). Another example is a human agent who operates a non-human data creating agent.
operated by
A Myers Briggs (MBTI) personality classification.
A homepage of a school attended by the person.
This property refers to a data item that contained a data item. Hence, this property refers to another data item of a larger granularity (e.g. an RDF triple is usually contained in an RDF graph).
contained in
This property refers to the service that provided the Web representation during the execution of a data access.
accessed
DataPublisher is a concept that represents entities such as persons, groups, or organizations who use a data providing service (see concept prv:DataProvidingService) to publish data on the Web.
Data Publisher
A project (a collective endeavour of some kind).
This property is deprecated and will be removed from the Provenance Vocabulary in the next revision. prv:yieldedBy was deprecated in the process of making the Provenance Vocabulary a specialization of W3C's PROV-O. Hence, use prov:wasGeneratedBy instead.
yielded by
A weblog of some thing (whether person, group, company etc.).
Provide a grouping of component properties that describe either a request for free/busy time, describe a response to a request for free/busy time or describe a published set of busy time.
A phone, specified using fully qualified tel: URI scheme (refs: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/schemes.html#tel).
A document that this thing is the primary topic of.
This property refers to the time an activity has been completed.
completed at
The gender of this Agent (typically but not necessarily 'male' or 'female').
This class is deprecated and will be removed from the Provenance Vocabulary in the next revision. prv:HumanActor was renamed to prv:HumanAgent in the process of making the Provenance Vocabulary a specialization of W3C's PROV-O. Hence, use prv:HumanAgent instead.
Human Actor
A workplace homepage of some person; the homepage of an organization they work for.
This property is deprecated and will be removed from the Provenance Vocabulary in the next revision. prv:employedArtifact was deprecated in the process of making the Provenance Vocabulary a specialization of W3C's PROV-O. Hence, use prov:used instead.
used
A personal mailbox, ie. an Internet mailbox associated with exactly one owner, the first owner of this mailbox. This is a 'static inverse functional property', in that there is (across time and change) at most one individual that ever has any particular value for foaf:mbox.
The underlying or 'focal' entity associated with some SKOS-described concept.
Immutable is a concept that represents entities which are immutable.
Aplan comment, in the tradition of finger and '.plan' files.
Document that defines the core ontology of the Provenance Vocabulary
Indicates the class of individuals that are a member of a Group
This property refers to the software that was run by a non-human actor (usually a service).
runs
This property refers to the Web resource that has been accessed during the execution of a data access. More precisely, the request of the referenced Web resource resulted in retrieving the representation that has been retrieved by the corresponding prv:DataAccess execution.
An agent (eg. person, group, software or physical artifact).
A foaf:LabelProperty is any RDF property with texual values that serve as labels.
The birthday of this Agent, represented in mm-dd string form, eg. '12-31'.
The sha1sum of the URI of an Internet mailbox associated with exactly one owner, the first owner of the mailbox.
A short informal nickname characterising an agent (includes login identifiers, IRC and other chat nicknames).
A link to the publications of this person.
This property refers to a file that serialized a data item.
serialized by
An image that can be used to represent some thing (ie. those depictions which are particularly representative of something, eg. one's photo on a homepage).
This class is deprecated and will be removed from the Provenance Vocabulary in the next revision. prv:NonHumanActor was renamed to prv:NonHumanAgent in the process of making the Provenance Vocabulary a specialization of W3C's PROV-O. Hence, use prv:NonHumanAgent instead.
Non-Human Actor
A work info homepage of some person; a page about their work for some organization.
This property refers to the data access by which an immutable entity has been retrieved from the Web. Each entity that has this property is a Web representation.
retrieved by
DataProvidingService is a concept that represents a non-human agent - usually a Web service or a server - that processes data access requests and actually sends the requested Web representations over the Web.
Data Providing Service
The primary topic of some page or document.
A location that something is based near, for some broadly human notion of near.
This property refers to the creation of a data item (or a file that serializes data items).
created by
HumanAgent is a general class that represents agents who are social beings such as persons, organizations, companies.
Human Agent
This property refers to a data publisher who used a data providing services at the time the provenance description refers to.
used by
Indicates a homepage of the service provide for this online account.
This property refers to an agent that/who performed an activity.
performed by
This class is deprecated and will be removed from the Provenance Vocabulary in the next revision. prv:Execution was deprecated in the process of making the Provenance Vocabulary a specialization of W3C's PROV-O. Hence, use prov:Activity instead.
Execution
This property may be used to make the relationship between different version of a data item explicit. More precisely, this property refers to an immediately preceding version of a data item; hence, the new version (i.e. the subject) has been created using the old version (i.e. the object). We strongly encourage to also describe this creation of the new version explicitly.
immediately preceded by
File is a general class that represents computer files/documents of any kind.
File
Provide a grouping of component properties that defines a time zone.
DataCreation is a concept that represents the execution of an activity by which data items have been created.
Data Creation
Provide a grouping of component properties that describe a journal entry.
A tipjar document for this agent, describing means for payment and reward.
This property refers to a source data item that has been used during the creation of a data item. Examples for source data are the content of a document used for machine learning, the statements in a knowledge base used to entail a new statement, and the entries in a database used to answer a query. Notice, all source data has provenance; we strongly encourage to describe this provenance as well, at least as far as available information permits.
A project this person has previously worked on.