1. PROV
Cunxin Jia

2. What’s provenance records?
PROV is a proposed specification to express provenance records.
What’s provenance records?
Entities and Activities in Producing and Delivering a given object.
How to use it?
Assess its quality, reliability or trustworthiness.
Determine ownership and rights.
Reproduce how something was generated.

3. PROV Family
Provenance is information about entities, activities, and people involved in producing a piece of data or thing, which can be used to form assessments about its quality, reliability or trustworthiness.

4. PROV Family User Developer Advanced PROV-OVERVIEW [Note]
an overview of the PROV family of documents.
PROV-PRIMER[Note][User]
an introduction to the provenance model.
PROV-O[Rec][Developer]
a light-weight OWL2 ontology for the provenance model.
PROV-XML[Note][Developer]
an XML schema for the provenance model.

5. PROV Family PROV-DM[Rec][Advanced] PROV-N[Rec][Advanced]
defines a conceptual data model for provenance.
PROV-N[Rec][Advanced]
a human-readable notation for provenance.
PROV-CONSTRAINTS[Rec][Advanced]
 a set constraints that define a notion of valid provenance.

6. PROV Family PROV-AQ[Note][Developer] PROV-DC[Note][Developer]
how to use Web-based mechanisms to locate and retrieve provenance information.
PROV-DC[Note][Developer]
a mapping between Dublin Core and PROV.
PROV-LINKS[Note][Advanced]
a mechanism to link across bundles.

7. Structure of PROV records

8. A PROV Sample Entity ex:dataSet1 ex:regionList PROV-O
ex:dataset1 a prov:Entity . ex:regionList a prov:Entity .
PROV-N
entity(ex:dataSet1) entity(ex:regionList)
PROV-XML
<prov:entity prov:id="ex:dataSet1"/> <prov:entity prov:id="ex:regionList"/>

9. A PROV Sample Activity ex:dataSet1 used ex:compose used ex:chart1
wasGeneratedBy
ex:composition
used
ex:chart1
ex:illustrate
wasGeneratedBy
used
ex:regionList

10. A PROV Sample Agent and Responsibility ex:dataSet1 used ex:chart1
ex:compose
wasGeneratedBy
ex:composition
used
ex:illustrate
wasGeneratedBy
used
ex:regionList
wasAssociatedWith
wasAssociatedWith
wasAttributeTo
ex:derek
actOnBehalfOf
ex:chartgen

11. A PROV Sample Roles prov:hadRole= ex:dataToCompose prov:hadRole=
ex:composedData
ex:dataSet1
used
ex:compose
wasGeneratedBy
ex:composition
used
ex:regionList
wasAssociatedWith
prov:hadRole=
ex:analyst
ex:derek
prov:hadRole=
ex:regionsToAggregateBy

12. A PROV Sample Derivation and Revision ex:dataSet1 ex:dataSet2
wasRevisionOf
ex:dataSet2
wasDerivedFrom
ex:chart2

13. A PROV Sample Plans ex:instructions ex:edith ex:correct ex:dataSet1
hadPlan
ex:edith
wasAssociatedWith
ex:correct
used
wasGeneratedBy
ex:dataSet1
wasRevisionOf
ex:dataSet2

14. A PROV Sample Time prov:startedAtTime= 2012-03-31T09:21:00
prov:endedAtTime=
T15:21:00
ex:correct
wasDerivedFrom
used
wasGeneratedBy
ex:dataSet1
wasRevisionOf
ex:dataSet2
used
ex:compile2
wasGeneratedBy
ex:chart2
used
ex:compile
wasGeneratedBy
ex:chart1
prov:generatedAtTime=
T15:21:00
prov:generatedAtTime=
T10:30:00

15. A PROV Sample Alternate Entities and Specialization ex:article
wasQuotedFrom
ex:blogEntry
specializationOf
specializationOf
ex:dataSet1
wasDerivedFrom
ex:articleV1
alternateOf
ex:articleV2
wasDerivedFrom
ex:dataSet2

16. ex:article ex:blogEntry ex:articleV1 ex:articleV2 ex:instructions
ex:edith
ex:correct
ex:dataSet2
ex:compile2
ex:chart2
ex:dataSet1
ex:compile
ex:compose
ex:composition
ex:illustrate
ex:chart1
ex:regionList
ex:derek
ex:chartgen

17. Thank you!