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Provenance Working Group

The Working Group is based on an extensive review and roadmap developed by a prior incubator group.

News & Active Topics

Active Topics

• Working Drafts
• Use cases for Complementarity: ComplementarityUseCases
• Collecting Feedback on Working Drafts
• Named Graphs
  • Provenance requirements for Named Graphs
  • rdf-prov mailing list http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-prov/
• Connecting to the community for provenance support
  • Connection Task Force Report
  • Take our Survey for provenance needs
  • Results of the first survey round:
• Exploring provenance model complexity

News

• First public working drafts are becoming available, check the Working Drafts page above.
• Our hashtag: #provwg
• Semantic Web Activity Blog - news from related groups at the W3C

Task Forces

The Working Group activities are structured in four Task Forces:

• Model Task Force
• Access and Query Task Force
• Connection Task Force
• Implementation and Test Cases Task Force

Deliverables

Deliverables (Drafts will be linked from here, as they are created)

Background

The Working Group stems from a year long incubator group. We suggest that participants in the Working Group be familiar with the following documents:

• Final Report in particular Provenance in the Web Architecture and the Provenance Concepts in the recommendations section.
• Provenance Vocabulary Mappings

Participation

See list of current participants, (or with contact info), wiki user pages, nicknames

If you want to join this group, see How to Join.

If you are officially in the group, you will automatically receive group email and your w3.org login and password will work on this wiki.

The email archive for public-prov-wg@w3.org is at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-prov-wg/.

Mercurial repository

Meetings

• 2012-02-02, 03 - Agenda, Minutes TBD (Face To Face Meeting 2)
• 2012-01-12 - Agenda, Minutes

• Past Meetings
• 2012-01-05 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-12-22 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-12-15 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-12-08 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-12-01 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-11-24 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-11-17 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-11-10 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-11-03 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-10-27 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-10-20 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-10-13 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-10-06 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-09-29 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-09-22 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-09-15 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-09-08 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-09-01 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-08-25 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-08-18 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-08-11 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-08-04 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-07-28 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-07-21 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-07-14 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-07-06 - Agenda, Minutes Day1 Minutes Day2 (F2F1)
• 2011-06-30 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-06-23 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-06-16 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-06-09 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2011-06-03 - Agenda, Minutes (Yolanda's XG results presentation)
• 2011-06-02 - Agenda, Minutes
• earlier meetings

Teleconference information:

• official participants and invited guests only.
• An agenda is sent 24 hours in advance; minutes follow within a day or two.
• Thursdays, 8 am San Francisco, 11 am Boston, 4 pm London, 5 pm Paris
• Dial +1-617-761-6200 or sip:zakim@voip.w3.org then conference code 7768#
• IRC channel: #prov.
• Scribes
• For up to 90 minutes, goal is 60 minutes.

Timeline

See Deliverables. Significant deviations will be noted here.

W3C Working Group Resources

• Art of Consensus (guide to working at W3C) (W3C member confidential)
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Process Document
• All W3C Groups (W3C member confidential)
• CommonScribe (scribe tool) manual

Patent Policy

This Working Group operates under the W3C Patent Policy (5 February 2004 Version). To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this policy, on a Royalty-Free basis.

For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Status Page.

Staff

Email the chairs and staff contacts at team-prov-chairs@w3.org.

• Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, Co-Chair
• Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam, Co-Chair
• Sandro Hawke, W3C, Staff Contact