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This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title links to the most recent version of a document. For related introductory information, see: Linked Data.

Drafts

Below are draft documents: other Working Drafts. Some of these may become Web Standards through the W3C Recommendation Track process. Others may be published as Group Notes or become obsolete specifications.

Other Working Drafts

2012-01-10

PROV-AQ: Provenance Access and Query

This document specifies how to use standard Web protocols, including HTTP, to obtain information about the provenance of Web resources.

2012-01-10

PROV Model Primer

This document provides an intuitive introduction and guide to the PROV data model for provenance (PROV-DM). This primer explains the fundamental PROV-DM concepts in non-normative terms, and provides worked examples applying the PROV-O OWL2 ontology, and is intended as a starting point for those wishing to create or make use of PROV-DM data.

2011-12-15

The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation

PROV-DM is a core data model for provenance for building representations of the entities, people and processes involved in producing a piece of data or thing in the world. PROV-DM is domain-agnotisc, but with well-defined extensibility points allowing further domain-specific and application-specific extensions to be defined. It is accompanied by PROV-ASN, a technology-independent abstract syntax notation, which allows serializations of PROV-DM instances to be created for human consumption, which facilitates its mapping to concrete syntax, and which is used as the basis for a formal semantics.

2011-12-13

The PROV Ontology: Model and Formal Semantics

This specification defines the PROV Ontology as the normative representation of the PROV Data Model using the Web Ontology Language (OWL2). This document is part of a set of specifications being created to address the issue of provenance interchange in Web applications.