Artifact
subclass of: Resource
subclass of: Thing
type: Class
type: DeprecatedClass
comment: 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.

Non-Human Agent
subclass of: Thing
subclass of: Resource
type: Class
comment: NonHumanAgent is a general class that represents agents who are not social beings.
disjoint with: Human Agent
subclass of: Agent

Creation Guideline
subclass of: Resource
subclass of: Thing
type: Class
comment: 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.
subclass of: Plan
subclass of: Data Item
subclass of: Entity
subclass of: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#7
subclass of: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#4
subclass of: InformationRealization

Data Item
subclass of: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#7
subclass of: Thing
subclass of: Resource
type: Class
subclass of: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#4
comment: DataItem is a general concept that represents data items of any kind.
disjoint with: File
subclass of: Entity
subclass of: InformationRealization

guided by
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: 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.
domain: Data Creation
range: Creation Guideline
sub property of: used
type: Property
domain: Resource
range: Resource
domain: Activity
range: Plan
range: InformationRealization
range: Data Item
range: Entity
range: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#7
range: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#4

Actor
subclass of: Resource
subclass of: Thing
type: Class
type: DeprecatedClass
comment: 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.

http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#3
subclass of: Resource
subclass of: Thing
type: Class
type: Restriction
on property: accessed
max cardinality: 1

Data Access
subclass of: Thing
subclass of: Resource
type: Class
comment: DataAccess is a concept that represents the completed execution of an activity by which an immutable data item has been retrieved from the Web.
disjoint with: Data Creation
subclass of: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#2
subclass of: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#3
subclass of: Activity

involved
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: 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.
type: DeprecatedProperty
type: Property
domain: Resource
range: Resource

operated by
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: 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.
domain: Non-Human Agent
range: Human Agent
sub property of: actedOnBehalfOf
type: Property
domain: Resource
range: Resource
domain: Agent
range: Agent

contained in
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: 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).
domain: Data Item
range: Data Item
type: Property
domain: Entity
domain: Resource
domain: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#7
domain: InformationRealization
domain: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#4
range: Resource
range: InformationRealization
range: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#7
range: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#4
range: Entity

accessed
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This property refers to the service that provided the Web representation during the execution of a data access.
domain: Data Access
range: Data Providing Service
sub property of: wasAssociatedWith
type: Property
domain: Resource
range: Resource
domain: Activity
domain: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#3
domain: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#2
range: Agent
range: Non-Human Agent

Data Publisher
subclass of: Thing
subclass of: Resource
type: Class
comment: 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.
subclass of: Human Agent
subclass of: Agent

yielded by
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: 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.
type: DeprecatedProperty
type: Property
domain: Resource
range: Resource

completed at
sub property of: endedAtTime
type: FunctionalProperty
comment: This property refers to the time an activity has been completed.
type: DatatypeProperty
equivalent property: endedAtTime
type: Property

Human Actor
subclass of: Resource
subclass of: Thing
type: Class
type: DeprecatedClass
comment: 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.

used
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: 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.
type: DeprecatedProperty
type: Property
domain: Resource
range: Resource

Data Item
subclass of: Thing
subclass of: Resource
type: Class
comment: Immutable is a concept that represents entities which are immutable.
subclass of: Entity

accessed
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: 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.
domain: Data Access
range: WebResource
type: Property
domain: Resource
domain: Activity
domain: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#3
domain: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#2
range: Resource

runs
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This property refers to the software that was run by a non-human actor (usually a service).
domain: Non-Human Agent
type: Property
domain: Resource
domain: Agent
range: Resource

serialized by
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This property refers to a file that serialized a data item.
domain: Data Item
range: File
type: Property
domain: Entity
domain: Resource
domain: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#7
domain: InformationRealization
domain: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#4
range: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#7
range: Resource
range: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#4
range: Entity

Non-Human Actor
subclass of: Resource
subclass of: Thing
type: Class
type: DeprecatedClass
comment: 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.

Data Providing Service
subclass of: Thing
subclass of: Resource
type: Class
comment: 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.
subclass of: Non-Human Agent
subclass of: Agent

retrieved by
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: 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.
type: FunctionalProperty
domain: Data Item
domain: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#4
range: Data Access
sub property of: wasGeneratedBy
type: Property
domain: Resource
range: Resource
domain: Entity
range: Activity
range: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#2
range: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#3

http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#2
subclass of: Resource
subclass of: Thing
type: Class
type: Restriction
on property: accessed
max cardinality: 1

created by
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This property refers to the creation of a data item (or a file that serializes data items).
domain: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#7
range: Data Creation
sub property of: wasGeneratedBy
property chain axiom: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#10
type: Property
domain: Resource
range: Resource
range: Activity

Human Agent
subclass of: Resource
subclass of: Thing
type: Class
comment: HumanAgent is a general class that represents agents who are social beings such as persons, organizations, companies.
disjoint with: Non-Human Agent
subclass of: Agent

used by
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This property refers to a data publisher who used a data providing services at the time the provenance description refers to.
domain: Data Providing Service
range: Data Publisher
sub property of: actedOnBehalfOf
type: Property
domain: Resource
range: Resource
domain: Non-Human Agent
domain: Agent
range: Agent
range: Human Agent

performed by
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: This property refers to an agent that/who performed an activity.
sub property of: wasAssociatedWith
type: Property
domain: Resource
range: Resource

Execution
subclass of: Resource
subclass of: Thing
type: Class
type: DeprecatedClass
comment: 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.

immediately preceded by
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: 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.
domain: Data Item
range: Data Item
sub property of: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#1
sub property of: replaces
type: Property
domain: Resource
range: Resource
domain: Entity
domain: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#7
domain: InformationRealization
domain: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#4
range: InformationRealization
range: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#7
range: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#4
range: Entity

File
subclass of: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#7
subclass of: Resource
subclass of: Thing
type: Class
subclass of: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#4
comment: File is a general class that represents computer files/documents of any kind.
disjoint with: Data Item
subclass of: Entity

Data Creation
subclass of: Thing
subclass of: Resource
type: Class
comment: DataCreation is a concept that represents the execution of an activity by which data items have been created.
disjoint with: Data Access
subclass of: Activity

used
range: Thing
domain: Thing
type: ObjectProperty
comment: 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.
domain: Data Creation
range: Data Item
sub property of: used
type: Property
domain: Resource
range: Resource
domain: Activity
range: InformationRealization
range: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#7
range: http://lodlaundromat.org/.well-known/genid/f21cb372bdfd13c2baddedd3e5c2c662#4
range: Entity

Provenance Vocabulary Core Ontology namespace
type: Ontology
description: 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.
created: 2009-08-25T12:00:00Z
modified: 2012-03-14T12:00:00Z
creator: Jun Zhao
creator: Olaf Hartig
type: Thing

Document that defines the core ontology of the Provenance Vocabulary
type: Document
alternate: ns.rdf
primary topic: Provenance Vocabulary Core Ontology namespace
description: This documents specifies the Provenance Vocabulary Core Ontology which defines the main classes and properties provided by the Provenance Vocabulary.
assurance: Detached signature
title: Provenance Vocabulary Core Ontology Specification
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/
conforms to: rdfa-syntax
type: Thing

Detached signature
type: Endorsement
endorser: pubkey2011
type: Thing

Jun Zhao
type: Person
type: Thing
type: Human Agent
type: Agent

executed at
type: DeprecatedProperty
comment: 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.
type: DatatypeProperty
type: Property

Olaf Hartig
type: Person
type: Thing
type: Human Agent
type: Agent