Working Group Note version 2013-04-30
W3C PROV Linking Across Provenance Bundles Ontology (PROV-LINKS)
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Recommendation version 2013-04-30
W3C PROVenance Interchange Ontology (PROV-O)
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Dublin Core extensions of the W3C PROVenance Interchange Ontology (PROV-O)
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PROV Access and Query Ontology
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W3C PROVenance Interchange Ontology (PROV-O) Dictionary Extension
W3C PROVenance Interchange
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agents-responsibility
SoftwareAgent
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-agent
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-types
A software agent is running software.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-dm-20120703/prov-n.html#expression-types
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-dm-20120703/prov-dm.html#term-agent
expanded
It is not recommended that the type AgentInfluence be asserted without also asserting one of its more specific subclasses.
qualified
AgentInfluence provides additional descriptions of an Agent's binary influence upon any other kind of resource. Instances of AgentInfluence use the prov:agent property to cite the influencing Agent.
AgentInfluence is the capacity of an agent to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of another by means of attribution, association, delegation, or other.
AgentInfluence
Activity that identifies the Copyrighting activity associated to a resource.
Copyright
access-and-query
Type for a generic provenance query service. Mainly for use in RDF provenance query service descriptions, to facilitate discovery in linked data environments.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-aq-20130430/#provenance-query-service-discovery
ServiceDescription
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#prov-dm-constraints-fig
An instance of prov:Communication provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:wasInformedBy relation from an informed prov:Activity to the prov:Activity that informed it. For example, :you_jumping_off_bridge prov:wasInformedBy :everyone_else_jumping_off_bridge; prov:qualifiedCommunication [ a prov:Communication; prov:activity :everyone_else_jumping_off_bridge; :foo :bar ].
qualified
entities-activities
Communication is the exchange of an entity by two activities, one activity using the entity generated by the other.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-wasInformedBy
Communication
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-Communication
qualified
A quotation is the repeat of (some or all of) an entity, such as text or image, by someone who may or may not be its original author. Quotation is a particular case of derivation.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-quotation
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-quotation
An instance of prov:Quotation provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:wasQuotedFrom relation from some taken prov:Entity from an earlier, larger prov:Entity. For example, :here_is_looking_at_you_kid prov:wasQuotedFrom :casablanca_script; prov:qualifiedQuotation [ a prov:Quotation; prov:entity :casablanca_script; :foo :bar ].
derivations
Quotation
Role with the function of creating a resource. The Agent assigned to this role is associated with a Create Activity
Creator
agents-responsibility
qualified
A role is the function of an entity or agent with respect to an activity, in the context of a usage, generation, invalidation, association, start, and end.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-attribute
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-attribute-role
Role
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-primary-source
PrimarySource
A primary source for a topic refers to something produced by some agent with direct experience and knowledge about the topic, at the time of the topic's study, without benefit from hindsight.
Because of the directness of primary sources, they 'speak for themselves' in ways that cannot be captured through the filter of secondary sources. As such, it is important for secondary sources to reference those primary sources from which they were derived, so that their reliability can be investigated.
A primary source relation is a particular case of derivation of secondary materials from their primary sources. It is recognized that the determination of primary sources can be up to interpretation, and should be done according to conventions accepted within the application's domain.
An instance of prov:PrimarySource provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:hadPrimarySource relation from some secondary prov:Entity to an earlier, primary prov:Entity. For example, :blog prov:hadPrimarySource :newsArticle; prov:qualifiedPrimarySource [ a prov:PrimarySource; prov:entity :newsArticle; :foo :bar ] .
derivations
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-original-source
qualified
expanded
A location can be an identifiable geographic place (ISO 19112), but it can also be a non-geographic place such as a directory, row, or column. As such, there are numerous ways in which location can be expressed, such as by a coordinate, address, landmark, and so forth.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-attribute
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-attribute-location
Location
An instance of prov:Invalidation provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:wasInvalidatedBy relation from an invalidated prov:Entity to the prov:Activity that invalidated it. For example, :uncracked_egg prov:wasInvalidatedBy :baking; prov:qualifiedInvalidation [ a prov:Invalidation; prov:activity :baking; :foo :bar ].
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-Invalidation
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#prov-dm-constraints-fig
Invalidation
qualified
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-Invalidation
Invalidation is the start of the destruction, cessation, or expiry of an existing entity by an activity. The entity is no longer available for use (or further invalidation) after invalidation. Any generation or usage of an entity precedes its invalidation.
entities-activities
Role with the function of publishing a resource. The Agent assigned to this role is associated with a Publish Activity
Publisher
A derivation is a transformation of an entity into another, an update of an entity resulting in a new one, or the construction of a new entity based on a pre-existing entity.
qualified
derivations
An instance of prov:Derivation provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:wasDerivedFrom relation from some derived prov:Entity to another prov:Entity from which it was derived. For example, :chewed_bubble_gum prov:wasDerivedFrom :unwrapped_bubble_gum; prov:qualifiedDerivation [ a prov:Derivation; prov:entity :unwrapped_bubble_gum; :foo :bar ].
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#Derivation-Relation
Derivation
The more specific forms of prov:Derivation (i.e., prov:Revision, prov:Quotation, prov:PrimarySource) should be asserted if they apply.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#prov-dm-constraints-fig
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-Derivation
Role with the function of having responsibility for making contributions to a resource. The Agent assigned to this role is associated with a Modify or Create Activities
Contributor
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#prov-dm-constraints-fig
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-attribution
Attribution
An instance of prov:Attribution provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:wasAttributedTo relation from an prov:Entity to some prov:Agent that had some responsible for it. For example, :cake prov:wasAttributedTo :baker; prov:qualifiedAttribution [ a prov:Attribution; prov:entity :baker; :foo :bar ].
agents-responsibility
qualified
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-attribution
Attribution is the ascribing of an entity to an agent.
When an entity e is attributed to agent ag, entity e was generated by some unspecified activity that in turn was associated to agent ag. Thus, this relation is useful when the activity is not known, or irrelevant.
Activity that identifies the modification of a resource.
Modify
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#prov-dm-constraints-fig
Entity
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-entity
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-Entity
starting-point
entities-activities
An entity is a physical, digital, conceptual, or other kind of thing with some fixed aspects; entities may be real or imaginary.
Insertion
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
1
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-insertion
Insertion is a derivation that describes the transformation of a dictionary into another, by insertion of one or more key-entity pairs.
collections
1
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-insertion
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-conceptual-definition
An empty collection is a collection without members.
collections
expanded
EmptyCollection
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
An empty dictionary (i.e. has no members).
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary
Empty Dictionary
Type for a generic provenance query service. Mainly for use in RDF provenance query service descriptions, to facilitate discovery in linked data environments.
access-and-query
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-aq-20130430/#provenance-query-service-discovery
ProvenanceService
An instance of prov:Revision provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:wasRevisionOf relation from some newer prov:Entity to an earlier prov:Entity. For example, :draft_2 prov:wasRevisionOf :draft_1; prov:qualifiedRevision [ a prov:Revision; prov:entity :draft_1; :foo :bar ].
derivations
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-revision
A revision is a derivation for which the resulting entity is a revised version of some original. The implication here is that the resulting entity contains substantial content from the original. Revision is a particular case of derivation.
Revision
qualified
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-Revision
An instance of prov:Delegation provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:actedOnBehalfOf relation from a performing prov:Agent to some prov:Agent for whom it was performed. For example, :mixing prov:wasAssociatedWith :toddler . :toddler prov:actedOnBehalfOf :mother; prov:qualifiedDelegation [ a prov:Delegation; prov:entity :mother; :foo :bar ].
qualified
agents-responsibility
Delegation is the assignment of authority and responsibility to an agent (by itself or by another agent) to carry out a specific activity as a delegate or representative, while the agent it acts on behalf of retains some responsibility for the outcome of the delegated work.
For example, a student acted on behalf of his supervisor, who acted on behalf of the department chair, who acted on behalf of the university; all those agents are responsible in some way for the activity that took place but we do not say explicitly who bears responsibility and to what degree.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-delegation
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-delegation
Delegation
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-End
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#prov-dm-constraints-fig
entities-activities
qualified
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-End
An instance of prov:End provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:wasEndedBy relation from some ended prov:Activity to an prov:Entity that ended it. For example, :ball_game prov:wasEndedBy :buzzer; prov:qualifiedEnd [ a prov:End; prov:entity :buzzer; :foo :bar; prov:atTime '2012-03-09T08:05:08-05:00'^^xsd:dateTime ].
End
End is when an activity is deemed to have been ended by an entity, known as trigger. The activity no longer exists after its end. Any usage, generation, or invalidation involving an activity precedes the activity's end. An end may refer to a trigger entity that terminated the activity, or to an activity, known as ender that generated the trigger.
Activity that identifies the replacement of a resource.
Replace
agents-responsibility
starting-point
An agent is something that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place, for the existence of an entity, or for another agent's activity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-Agent
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-agent
Agent
collections
Key-Entity Pair
1
A key-entity pair. Part of a prov:Dictionary through prov:hadDictionaryMember. The key is any RDF Literal, the value is a prov:Entity.
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-membership
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-membership
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
1
A collection is an entity that provides a structure to some constituents, which are themselves entities. These constituents are said to be member of the collections.
expanded
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-collection
Collection
Activity that identifies the issuance (e.g., publication) of a resource.
Submit
An activity association is an assignment of responsibility to an agent for an activity, indicating that the agent had a role in the activity. It further allows for a plan to be specified, which is the plan intended by the agent to achieve some goals in the context of this activity.
qualified
Association
agents-responsibility
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-Association
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-Association
An instance of prov:Association provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:wasAssociatedWith relation from an prov:Activity to some prov:Agent that had some responsiblity for it. For example, :baking prov:wasAssociatedWith :baker; prov:qualifiedAssociation [ a prov:Association; prov:agent :baker; :foo :bar ].
Role with the function of owning or managing rights over a resource. The Agent assigned to this role is associated with a RightsAssignment Activity
RightsHolder
Activity that identifies the rights assignment of a resource.
RightsAssignment
Activity that identifies the creation of a resource
Create
Activity that identifies any contribution of an agent to a resource.
Contribute
Person agents are people.
agents-responsibility
expanded
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-types
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-agent
Person
This concept allows for the provenance of the dictionary, but also of its constituents to be expressed. Such a notion of dictionary corresponds to a wide variety of concrete data structures, such as a maps or associative arrays.
A given dictionary forms a given structure for its members. A different structure (obtained either by insertion or removal of members) constitutes a different dictionary.
A dictionary is an entity that provides a structure to some constituents, which are themselves entities. These constituents are said to be member of the dictionary.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
Dictionary
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary
collections
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-conceptual-definition
starting-point
entities-activities
An activity is something that occurs over a period of time and acts upon or with entities; it may include consuming, processing, transforming, modifying, relocating, using, or generating entities.
Activity
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-Activity
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#prov-dm-constraints-fig
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-Activity
derivations
Influence
Influence is the capacity of an entity, activity, or agent to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of another by means of usage, start, end, generation, invalidation, communication, derivation, attribution, association, or delegation.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-influence
An instance of prov:Influence provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:wasInfluencedBy relation from some influenced Activity, Entity, or Agent to the influencing Activity, Entity, or Agent. For example, :stomach_ache prov:wasInfluencedBy :spoon; prov:qualifiedInfluence [ a prov:Influence; prov:entity :spoon; :foo :bar ] . Because prov:Influence is a broad relation, the more specific relations (Communication, Delegation, End, etc.) should be used when applicable.
Because prov:Influence is a broad relation, its most specific subclasses (e.g. prov:Communication, prov:Delegation, prov:End, prov:Revision, etc.) should be used when applicable.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-influence
qualified
expanded
qualified
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-Association
There exist no prescriptive requirement on the nature of plans, their representation, the actions or steps they consist of, or their intended goals. Since plans may evolve over time, it may become necessary to track their provenance, so plans themselves are entities. Representing the plan explicitly in the provenance can be useful for various tasks: for example, to validate the execution as represented in the provenance record, to manage expectation failures, or to provide explanations.
Plan
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-Association
A plan is an entity that represents a set of actions or steps intended by one or more agents to achieve some goals.
agents-responsibility
Generation is the completion of production of a new entity by an activity. This entity did not exist before generation and becomes available for usage after this generation.
qualified
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-Generation
entities-activities
Generation
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#prov-dm-constraints-fig
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-Generation
An instance of prov:Generation provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:wasGeneratedBy relation from a generated prov:Entity to the prov:Activity that generated it. For example, :cake prov:wasGeneratedBy :baking; prov:qualifiedGeneration [ a prov:Generation; prov:activity :baking; :foo :bar ].
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-removal
1
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-removal
collections
1
collections
Removal
Removal is a derivation that describes the transformation of a dictionary into another, by removing one or more keys.
ActivityInfluence
ActivitiyInfluence is the capacity of an activity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of another by means of generation, invalidation, communication, or other.
It is not recommended that the type ActivityInfluence be asserted without also asserting one of its more specific subclasses.
qualified
ActivityInfluence provides additional descriptions of an Activity's binary influence upon any other kind of resource. Instances of ActivityInfluence use the prov:activity property to cite the influencing Activity.
0
Usage
An instance of prov:Usage provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:used relation from some prov:Activity to an prov:Entity that it used. For example, :keynote prov:used :podium; prov:qualifiedUsage [ a prov:Usage; prov:entity :podium; :foo :bar ].
Usage is the beginning of utilizing an entity by an activity. Before usage, the activity had not begun to utilize this entity and could not have been affected by the entity.
qualified
entities-activities
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#prov-dm-constraints-fig
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-Usage
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-Usage
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#prov-dm-constraints-fig
Start is when an activity is deemed to have been started by an entity, known as trigger. The activity did not exist before its start. Any usage, generation, or invalidation involving an activity follows the activity's start. A start may refer to a trigger entity that set off the activity, or to an activity, known as starter, that generated the trigger.
entities-activities
An instance of prov:Start provides additional descriptions about the binary prov:wasStartedBy relation from some started prov:Activity to an prov:Entity that started it. For example, :foot_race prov:wasStartedBy :bang; prov:qualifiedStart [ a prov:Start; prov:entity :bang; :foo :bar; prov:atTime '2012-03-09T08:05:08-05:00'^^xsd:dateTime ] .
qualified
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-Start
Start
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-Start
agents-responsibility
expanded
An organization is a social or legal institution such as a company, society, etc.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-types
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-agent
Organization
Activity that identifies the publication of a resource
Publish
qualified
It is not recommended that the type EntityInfluence be asserted without also asserting one of its more specific subclasses.
EntityInfluence provides additional descriptions of an Entity's binary influence upon any other kind of resource. Instances of EntityInfluence use the prov:entity property to cite the influencing Entity.
EntityInfluence is the capacity of an entity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of another by means of usage, start, end, derivation, or other.
EntityInfluence
qualified
The PROV data model is implicitly based on a notion of instantaneous events (or just events), that mark transitions in the world. Events include generation, usage, or invalidation of entities, as well as starting or ending of activities. This notion of event is not first-class in the data model, but it is useful for explaining its other concepts and its semantics.
An instantaneous event, or event for short, happens in the world and marks a change in the world, in its activities and in its entities. The term 'event' is commonly used in process algebra with a similar meaning. Events represent communications or interactions; they are assumed to be atomic and instantaneous.
entities-activities
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#dfn-event
InstantaneousEvent
Note that there are kinds of bundles (e.g. handwritten letters, audio recordings, etc.) that are not expressed in PROV-O, but can be still be described by PROV-O.
A bundle is a named set of provenance descriptions, and is itself an Entity, so allowing provenance of provenance to be expressed.
expanded
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-bundle-declaration
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-bundle-entity
Bundle
Activity that identifies the acceptance of a resource (e.g., an article in a conference)
Accept
qualified
hadActivity
The _optional_ Activity of an Influence, which used, generated, invalidated, or was the responsibility of some Entity. This property is _not_ used by ActivityInfluence (use prov:activity instead).
wasActivityOfInfluence
The multiple rdfs:domain assertions are intended. One is simpler and works for OWL-RL, the union is more specific but is not recognized by OWL-RL.
derivations
This property has multiple RDFS domains to suit multiple OWL Profiles. See <a href="#owl-profile">PROV-O OWL Profile</a>.
If this Entity prov:wasQuotedFrom Entity :e, then it can qualify how using prov:qualifiedQuotation [ a prov:Quotation; prov:entity :e; :foo :bar ].
qualifiedQuotation
qualified
derivations
qualifiedQuotationOf
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-removal
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
qualifiedRemoval
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-removal
collections
prov:qualifiedRemoval shows the details of a removal, in particular the removed keys.
qualified
The prov:agent property references an prov:Agent which influenced a resource. This property applies to an prov:AgentInfluence, which is given by a subproperty of prov:qualifiedInfluence from the influenced prov:Entity, prov:Activity or prov:Agent.
This property behaves in spirit like rdf:object; it references the object of a prov:wasInfluencedBy triple.
agentOfInfluence
agent
wasQuotedFrom
quotedAs
An entity is derived from an original entity by copying, or 'quoting', some or all of it.
derivations
expanded
specializationOf
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-specialization
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-dm-20120703/prov-n.html#expression-specialization
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-specialization
expanded
An entity that is a specialization of another shares all aspects of the latter, and additionally presents more specific aspects of the same thing as the latter. In particular, the lifetime of the entity being specialized contains that of any specialization. Examples of aspects include a time period, an abstraction, and a context associated with the entity.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-dm-20120703/prov-constraints.html#prov-dm-constraints-fig
generalizationOf
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#prov-dm-constraints-fig
alternate
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-dm-20120703/prov-dm.html#term-specialization
expanded
agents-responsibility
wasInfluencedBy
influenced
derivations
qualifiedSourceOf
qualified
If this Entity prov:hadPrimarySource Entity :e, then it can qualify how using prov:qualifiedPrimarySource [ a prov:PrimarySource; prov:entity :e; :foo :bar ].
qualifiedPrimarySource
access-and-query
Relates a resource to a provenance pingback service that may receive additional provenance links about the resource.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-aq-20130430/#provenance-pingback
provenance pingback
hadMention
mentionOf
prov:mentionOf is used to specialize an entity as described in another bundle. It is to be used in conjuction with prov:asInBundle.
prov:asInBundle is used to cite the Bundle in which the generalization was mentioned.
qualifiedDerivationOf
derivations
If this Entity prov:wasDerivedFrom Entity :e, then it can qualify how it was derived using prov:qualifiedDerivation [ a prov:Derivation; prov:entity :e; :foo :bar ].
qualifiedDerivation
qualified
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-insertion
collections
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-insertion
An object property to refer to the prov:KeyEntityPair inserted into a prov:Dictionary.
insertedKeyEntityPair
qualifiedAttributionOf
agents-responsibility
qualified
qualifiedAttribution
If this Entity prov:wasAttributedTo Agent :ag, then it can qualify how it was influenced using prov:qualifiedAttribution [ a prov:Attribution; prov:agent :ag; :foo :bar ].
contributed
agents-responsibility
starting-point
Attribution is the ascribing of an entity to an agent.
wasAttributedTo
Attribution is the ascribing of an entity to an agent.
wasGeneratedBy
starting-point
generated
entities-activities
qualified
prov:hadRole references the Role (i.e. the function of an entity with respect to an activity), in the context of an instantaneous usage, generation, association, start, and end.
The _optional_ Role that an Entity assumed in the context of an Activity. For example, :baking prov:used :spoon; prov:qualified [ a prov:Usage; prov:entity :spoon; prov:hadRole roles:mixing_implement ].
hadRole
This property has multiple RDFS domains to suit multiple OWL Profiles. See <a href="#owl-profile">PROV-O OWL Profile</a>.
wasRoleIn
agents-responsibility
agents-responsibility
wasAssociateFor
wasAssociatedWith
starting-point
An prov:Agent that had some (unspecified) responsibility for the occurrence of this prov:Activity.
access-and-query
Indicates a provenance-URI for a resource; the resource identified by this property presents a provenance record about its subject or anchor resource.
provenanceOf
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-aq-20130430/#resource-represented-as-html
has_provenance
expanded
The Location of any resource.
This property has multiple RDFS domains to suit multiple OWL Profiles. See <a href="#owl-profile">PROV-O OWL Profile</a>.
locationOf
This property is not functional because the many values could be at a variety of granularies (In this building, in this room, in that chair).
The naming of prov:atLocation parallels prov:atTime, and is not named prov:hadLocation to avoid conflicting with the convention that prov:had* properties are used on prov:Influence classes.
atLocation
qualifiedCommunicationOf
qualified
qualifiedCommunication
entities-activities
If this Activity prov:wasInformedBy Activity :a, then it can qualify how it was influenced using prov:qualifiedCommunication [ a prov:Communication; prov:activity :a; :foo :bar ].
qualifiedStartOf
If this Activity prov:wasStartedBy Entity :e1, then it can qualify how it was started using prov:qualifiedStart [ a prov:Start; prov:entity :e1; :foo :bar ].
entities-activities
qualifiedStart
qualified
anchorOf
Indicates anchor URI for a potentially dynamic resource instance.
access-and-query
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-aq-20130430/#resource-represented-as-html
has_anchor
Indicates a provenance query service that can access provenance related to its subject or anchor resource.
provenanceQueryServiceOf
access-and-query
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-aq-20130430/
hasProvenanceService
entityOfInfluence
qualified
This property behaves in spirit like rdf:object; it references the object of a prov:wasInfluencedBy triple.
The prov:entity property references an prov:Entity which influenced a resource. This property applies to an prov:EntityInfluence, which is given by a subproperty of prov:qualifiedInfluence from the influenced prov:Entity, prov:Activity or prov:Agent.
entity
influencer
hadInfluence
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-influence
This property is used as part of the qualified influence pattern. Subclasses of prov:Influence use these subproperties to reference the resource (Entity, Agent, or Activity) whose influence is being qualified.
qualified
Subproperties of prov:influencer are used to cite the object of an unqualified PROV-O triple whose predicate is a subproperty of prov:wasInfluencedBy (e.g. prov:used, prov:wasGeneratedBy). prov:influencer is used much like rdf:object is used.
This property and its subproperties are used in the same way as the rdf:object property, i.e. to reference the object of an unqualified prov:wasInfluencedBy or prov:influenced triple.
The dictionary was derived from the other by insertion. Can be qualified with prov:qualifiedInsertion, which shows details of the insertion, in particular the inserted key-entity pairs.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-insertion
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-insertion
derivedByInsertionFrom
The _optional_ Plan adopted by an Agent in Association with some Activity. Plan specifications are out of the scope of this specification.
agents-responsibility
qualified
hadPlan
wasPlanOf
contextOf
asInBundle
prov:asInBundle is used to specify which bundle the general entity of a prov:mentionOf property is described.
When :x prov:mentionOf :y and :y is described in Bundle :b, the triple :x prov:asInBundle :b is also asserted to cite the Bundle in which :y was described.
wasUsedInDerivation
hadUsage
derivations
qualified
The _optional_ Usage involved in an Entity's Derivation.
wasPrimarySourceOf
expanded
derivations
hadPrimarySource
qualified
activityOfInfluence
This property behaves in spirit like rdf:object; it references the object of a prov:wasInfluencedBy triple.
The prov:activity property references an prov:Activity which influenced a resource. This property applies to an prov:ActivityInfluence, which is given by a subproperty of prov:qualifiedInfluence from the influenced prov:Entity, prov:Activity or prov:Agent.
activity
If this Activity prov:wasAssociatedWith Agent :ag, then it can qualify the Association using prov:qualifiedAssociation [ a prov:Association; prov:agent :ag; :foo :bar ].
agents-responsibility
qualifiedAssociation
qualifiedAssociationOf
qualified
hadRevision
derivations
expanded
wasRevisionOf
A revision is a derivation that revises an entity into a revised version.
ended
End is when an activity is deemed to have ended. An end may refer to an entity, known as trigger, that terminated the activity.
entities-activities
expanded
wasEndedBy
An object property to express the accountability of an agent towards another agent. The subordinate agent acted on behalf of the responsible agent in an actual activity.
agents-responsibility
actedOnBehalfOf
hadDelegate
starting-point
wasUsedBy
used
A prov:Entity that was used by this prov:Activity. For example, :baking prov:used :spoon, :egg, :oven .
starting-point
entities-activities
started
wasStartedBy
expanded
entities-activities
Start is when an activity is deemed to have started. A start may refer to an entity, known as trigger, that initiated the activity.
entities-activities
If this Activity prov:used Entity :e, then it can qualify how it used it using prov:qualifiedUsage [ a prov:Usage; prov:entity :e; :foo :bar ].
qualifiedUsingActivity
qualifiedUsage
qualified
If this Activity prov:generated Entity :e, then it can qualify how it performed the Generation using prov:qualifiedGeneration [ a prov:Generation; prov:entity :e; :foo :bar ].
qualified
entities-activities
qualifiedGenerationOf
qualifiedGeneration
collections
The dictionary was derived from the other by removal. Can be qualified with prov:qualifiedRemoval, which shows details of the removal, in particular the removed keys.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-removal
derivedByRemovalFrom
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-removal
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
starting-point
An activity a2 is dependent on or informed by another activity a1, by way of some unspecified entity that is generated by a1 and used by a2.
informed
wasInformedBy
entities-activities
derivations
Because prov:qualifiedInfluence is a broad relation, the more specific relations (qualifiedCommunication, qualifiedDelegation, qualifiedEnd, etc.) should be used when applicable.
qualifiedInfluence
qualifiedInfluenceOf
qualified
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-membership
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
hadDictionaryMember
Describes the key-entity pair that was member of a prov:Dictionary. A dictionary can have multiple members.
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-membership
collections
The more specific subproperties of prov:wasDerivedFrom (i.e., prov:wasQuotedFrom, prov:wasRevisionOf, prov:hadPrimarySource) should be used when applicable.
hadDerivation
derivations
starting-point
wasDerivedFrom
A derivation is a transformation of an entity into another, an update of an entity resulting in a new one, or the construction of a new entity based on a pre-existing entity.
expanded
expanded
hadMember
wasMemberOf
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-insertion
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
prov:qualifiedInsertion shows the details of an insertion, in particular the inserted key-entity pairs.
collections
collections
qualifiedInsertion
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-insertion
prov:generated is one of few inverse property defined, to allow Activity-oriented assertions in addition to Entity-oriented assertions.
entities-activities
expanded
wasGeneratedBy
generated
qualifiedDelegation
qualified
agents-responsibility
If this Agent prov:actedOnBehalfOf Agent :ag, then it can qualify how with prov:qualifiedResponsibility [ a prov:Responsibility; prov:agent :ag; :foo :bar ].
qualifiedDelegationOf
relates a generic provenance query service resource (type prov:ServiceDescription) to a specific query service description (e.g. a prov:DirectQueryService or a sd:Service).
access-and-query
serviceDescribedBy
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-aq-20130430/rovenance-query-service-description
describesService
qualifiedEnd
qualifiedEndOf
If this Activity prov:wasEndedBy Entity :e1, then it can qualify how it was ended using prov:qualifiedEnd [ a prov:End; prov:entity :e1; :foo :bar ].
entities-activities
qualified
agents-responsibility
qualified
This property has multiple RDFS domains to suit multiple OWL Profiles. See <a href="#owl-profile">PROV-O OWL Profile</a>.
wasInfluencedBy
influenced
The sub-properties of prov:wasInfluencedBy can be elaborated in more detail using the Qualification Pattern. For example, the binary relation :baking prov:used :spoon can be qualified by asserting :baking prov:qualifiedUsage [ a prov:Usage; prov:entity :spoon; prov:atLocation :kitchen ] .
Subproperties of prov:wasInfluencedBy may also be asserted directly without being qualified.
prov:wasInfluencedBy should not be used without also using one of its subproperties.
Because prov:wasInfluencedBy is a broad relation, its more specific subproperties (e.g. prov:wasInformedBy, prov:actedOnBehalfOf, prov:wasEndedBy, etc.) should be used when applicable.
entities-activities
prov:invalidated is one of few inverse property defined, to allow Activity-oriented assertions in addition to Entity-oriented assertions.
invalidated
expanded
wasInvalidatedBy
entities-activities
invalidated
expanded
wasInvalidatedBy
alternateOf
alternate
Two alternate entities present aspects of the same thing. These aspects may be the same or different, and the alternate entities may or may not overlap in time.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/#expression-alternate
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-alternate
expanded
alternateOf
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#prov-dm-constraints-fig
qualifiedRevision
revisedEntity
derivations
qualified
If this Entity prov:wasRevisionOf Entity :e, then it can qualify how it was revised using prov:qualifiedRevision [ a prov:Revision; prov:entity :e; :foo :bar ].
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-removal
The property used by a prov:Insertion and prov:Removal to cite the prov:Dictionary that was prov:derivedByInsertionFrom or prov:derivedByRemovalFrom another dictionary.
dictionary
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-removal
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-insertion
collections
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-insertion
If this Entity prov:wasInvalidatedBy Activity :a, then it can qualify how it was invalidated using prov:qualifiedInvalidation [ a prov:Invalidation; prov:activity :a; :foo :bar ].
qualifiedInvalidationOf
qualified
entities-activities
qualifiedInvalidation
derivations
qualified
hadGeneration
generatedAsDerivation
The _optional_ Generation involved in an Entity's Derivation.
invalidatedAtTime
The time at which an entity was invalidated (i.e., no longer usable).
entities-activities
It is the intent that the property chain holds: (prov:qualifiedInvalidation o prov:atTime) rdfs:subPropertyOf prov:invalidatedAtTime.
expanded
It is the intent that the property chain holds: (prov:qualifiedEnd o prov:atTime) rdfs:subPropertyOf prov:endedAtTime.
The time at which an activity ended. See also prov:startedAtTime.
starting-point
entities-activities
endedAtTime
entities-activities
The time at which an entity was completely created and is available for use.
It is the intent that the property chain holds: (prov:qualifiedGeneration o prov:atTime) rdfs:subPropertyOf prov:generatedAtTime.
generatedAtTime
expanded
The key of a prov:KeyEntityPair, which is an element of a prov:Dictionary.
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-membership
collections
pairKey
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-membership
value
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-attribute-value
Provides a value that is a direct representation of an entity.
entities-activities
expanded
This property serves the same purpose as rdf:value, but has been reintroduced to avoid some of the definitional ambiguity in the RDF specification (specifically, 'may be used in describing structured values').
The editor's definition comes from http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-primer/#rdfvalue
entities-activities
It is the intent that the property chain holds: (prov:qualifiedStart o prov:atTime) rdfs:subPropertyOf prov:startedAtTime.
starting-point
startedAtTime
The time at which an activity started. See also prov:endedAtTime.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-removal
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
collections
removedKey
The key removed in a Removal.
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-removal
Relates a provenance service to a URI template string for constructing provenance-URIs.
access-and-query
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-aq-20130430/
provenanceUriTemplate
atTime
The time at which an InstantaneousEvent occurred, in the form of xsd:dateTime.
entities-activities
qualified
The entity of a prov:KeyEntityPair, which is an element of a prov:Dictionary.
collections
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#expression-dictionary-membership
pairKey
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#term-dictionary-membership
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/#dictionary-constraints
collections
hadInfluence
agentOfInfluence
A reference to the principal section of the PROV-CONSTRAINTS document that describes this concept.
hadDerivation
wasRoleIn
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-influence
influencee: an identifier (o2) for an entity, activity, or agent;
qualifiedDelegationOf
Derivation is a particular case of trace (see http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/#term-trace), since it links an entity to another entity that contributed to its existence.
hadDelegate
hadPrimarySource property is a particular case of wasDerivedFrom (see http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/#term-original-source) that aims to give credit to the source that originated some information.
hadRevision
PROV-O does not define all property inverses. The directionalities defined in PROV-O should be given preference over those not defined. However, if users wish to name the inverse of a PROV-O property, the local name given by prov:inverse should be used.
qualifiedAttributionOf
qualifiedGenerationOf
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-collection
A collection is an entity that provides a structure to some constituents, which are themselves entities. These constituents are said to be member of the collections.
Quotation is a particular case of derivation (see http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/#term-quotation) in which an entity is derived from an original entity by copying, or "quoting", some or all of it.
wasUsedInDerivation
wasAssociateFor
A reference to the principal section of the PROV-DM document that describes this concept.
wasPlanOf
revisedEntity
qualifiedInvalidationOf
qualifiedStartOf
Classify prov-o terms into three categories, including 'starting-point', 'qualifed', and 'extended'. This classification is used by the prov-o html document to gently introduce prov-o terms to its users.
locationOf
ended
A definition quoted from PROV-DM or PROV-CONSTRAINTS that describes the concept expressed with this OWL term.
When the prov-o term does not have a definition drawn from prov-dm, and the prov-o editor provides one.
wasMemberOf
generatedAsDerivation
qualifiedEndOf
started
qualifiedInfluenceOf
activityOfInfluence
A reference to the principal section of the PROV-M document that describes this concept.
A reference to the principal section of the PROV-DM document that describes this concept.
qualifiedCommunicationOf
wasPrimarySourceOf
wasUsedBy
A note by the OWL development team about how this term expresses the PROV-DM concept, or how it should be used in context of semantic web or linked data.
contributed
generalizationOf
The position that this OWL term should be listed within documentation. The scope of the documentation (e.g., among all terms, among terms within a prov:category, among properties applying to a particular class, etc.) is unspecified.
Classes and properties used to qualify relationships are annotated with prov:unqualifiedForm to indicate the property used to assert an unqualified provenance relation.
qualifiedQuotationOf
qualifiedDerivationOf
This annotation property links a subproperty of prov:wasInfluencedBy with the subclass of prov:Influence and the qualifying property that are used to qualify it.
Example annotation:
prov:wasGeneratedBy prov:qualifiedForm prov:qualifiedGeneration, prov:Generation .
Then this unqualified assertion:
:entity1 prov:wasGeneratedBy :activity1 .
can be qualified by adding:
:entity1 prov:qualifiedGeneration :entity1Gen .
:entity1Gen
a prov:Generation, prov:Influence;
prov:activity :activity1;
:customValue 1337 .
Note how the value of the unqualified influence (prov:wasGeneratedBy :activity1) is mirrored as the value of the prov:activity (or prov:entity, or prov:agent) property on the influence class.
quotedAs
entityOfInfluence
qualifiedSourceOf
wasActivityOfInfluence
informed
Revision is a derivation (see http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/#term-Revision). Moreover, according to
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/#term-Revision 23 April 2012 'wasRevisionOf is a strict sub-relation of wasDerivedFrom since two entities e2 and e1 may satisfy wasDerivedFrom(e2,e1) without being a variant of each other.'
http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#term-influence
influencer: an identifier (o1) for an ancestor entity, activity, or agent that the former depends on;
IF wasAttributedTo(e2,ag1,aAttr) holds, THEN wasInfluencedBy(e2,ag1) also holds.
Attribution is a particular case of trace (see http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/#concept-trace), in the sense that it links an entity to the agent that ascribed it.
qualifiedAssociationOf
qualifiedUsingActivity
Classify prov-o terms into six components according to prov-dm, including 'agents-responsibility', 'alternate', 'annotations', 'collections', 'derivations', and 'entities-activities'. This classification is used so that readers of prov-o specification can find its correspondence with the prov-dm specification.
wasInfluencedBy
influenced
generated
wasGeneratedBy
invalidated
wasInvalidatedBy
alternateOf