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PROV-O: The PROV Ontology

W3C Candidate Recommendation 11 December 2012

This version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-o-20121211/
Latest published version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/
Implementation report:
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/reports/prov -implementations.html
Previous version:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-o-20120724/
Editors:
Timothy Lebo, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Satya Sahoo, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Deborah McGuinness, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Contributors:
(In alphabetical order)
Khalid Belhajjame, University of Manchester, UK
James Cheney, University of Edinburgh, UK
David Corsar, University of Aberdeen, UK
Daniel Garijo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Stian Soiland-Reyes, University of Manchester, UK
Stephan Zednik, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Jun Zhao, University of Oxford, UK

Abstract

The PROV Ontology (PROV-O) expresses the PROV Data Model [PROV-DM] using the OWL2 Web Ontology Language (OWL2) [OWL2-OVERVIEW]. It provides a set of classes, properties, and restrictions that can be used to represent and interchange provenance information generated in different systems and under different contexts. It can also be specialized to create new classes and properties to model provenance information for different applications and domains. The PROV Document Overview describes the overall state of PROV, and should be read before other PROV documents.

The namespace for all PROV-O terms is http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#.

The OWL encoding of the PROV Ontology is available here.

Status of This Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at http://www.w3.org/TR/.

PROV Family of Documents

This document is part of the PROV family of documents, a set of documents defining various aspects that are necessary to achieve the vision of inter-operable interchange of provenance information in heterogeneous environments such as the Web. These documents are:

How to read the PROV Family of Documents

Please Comment By January 31, 2013

The Provenance Working Group seeks to gather experience from implementations in order to increase confidence in the specifications and meet specific exit criteria. This document will remain a Candidate Recommendation until at least 31 January 31, 2013. After that date, when and if the exit criteria are met, the group intends to request Proposed Recommendation status.

This document was published by the Provenance Working Group as a Candidate Recommendation. This document is intended to become a W3C Recommendation. If you wish to make comments regarding this document, please send them to public-prov-comments@w3.org (subscribe, archives). W3C publishes a Candidate Recommendation to indicate that the document is believed to be stable and to encourage implementation by the developer community. This Candidate Recommendation is expected to advance to Proposed Recommendation no earlier than 31 January 2013. All feedback is welcome.

Publication as a Candidate Recommendation does not imply endorsement by the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.

This document was produced by a group operating under the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy. W3C maintains a public list of any patent disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group; that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent. An individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual believes contains Essential Claim(s) must disclose the information in accordance with section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

The PROV Ontology (PROV-O) defines the OWL2 Web Ontology Language encoding of the PROV Data Model [PROV-DM]. This document describes the set of classes, properties, and restrictions that constitute the PROV Ontology. This ontology specification provides the foundation to implement provenance applications in different domains that can represent, exchange, and integrate provenance information generated in different systems and under different contexts. Together with the PROV Access and Query [PROV-AQ] and PROV Data Model [PROV-DM], this document forms a framework for provenance information interchange in domain-specific Web-based applications.

PROV-O is a lightweight ontology that can be adopted in a wide range of applications. With the exception of five axioms, PROV-O conforms to the OWL-RL profile [OWL2-PRIMER]. The PROV Ontology classes and properties are defined such that they can not only be used directly to represent provenance information, but also can be specialized for modeling application-specific provenance details in a variety of domains. Thus, the PROV Ontology is expected to be both directly usable in applications as well as serve as a reference model for creating domain-specific provenance ontologies and thereby facilitates interoperable provenance modeling. To demonstrate the use of PROV-O classes and properties, this document uses an example provenance scenario similar to the one introduced in the PROV-Primer [PROV-PRIMER].

The PROV Data Model [PROV-DM] introduces a set of concepts to represent provenance information in a variety of application domains. This document maps the PROV Data Model to PROV Ontology using the OWL2 ontology language [OWL2-OVERVIEW].

We briefly introduce some of the OWL2 modeling terms that will be used to describe the PROV Ontology. An OWL2 instance is an individual object in a domain of discourse, for example a person named Alice or a car named KITT. A set of individuals sharing common characteristics constitutes a class. Person and Car are examples of classes representing the set of individual persons and cars respectively. The OWL2 object properties are used to link individuals, classes, or create a property hierarchy. For example, the object property "hasOwner" can be used to link car with person. The OWL2 datatype properties are used to link individuals or classes to data values, including XML Schema datatypes [XMLSCHEMA11-2].

1.1 Compliance with this Document

For the purpose of compliance, the normative sections of this document are Section 1.1, Section 1.2, Section 3, Section 4, and Appendix B

1.2 Notational Conventions

The key words "must", "must not", "required", "shall", "shall not", "should", "should not", "recommended", "may", and "optional" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

1.3 Namespaces

This section is non-normative.

The following namespace prefixes are used throughout this document.

Table 1: Prefix and Namespaces used in this specification
prefixnamespace IRI definition
rdfhttp://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#The RDF namespace [RDF-CONCEPTS]
xsdhttp://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema#XML Schema Namespace [XMLSCHEMA11-2]
owlhttp://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#The OWL namespace [OWL2-OVERVIEW]
provhttp://www.w3.org/ns/prov# The PROV namespace [PROV-DM]
(others)(various)All other namespace prefixes are used in examples only.
In particular, IRIs starting with "http://example.com" represent
some application-dependent IRI [IRI]

2. PROV-O at a glance

This section is non-normative.

PROV-O users may only need to use parts of the entire ontology, depending on their needs and according to how much detail they want to include in their provenance information. For this, the PROV-O terms (classes and properties) are grouped into three categories to provide an incremental introduction to the ontology: Starting Point terms, Expanded terms, and terms for Qualifying relationships.

Starting Point classes and properties provide the basis for the rest of the PROV Ontology and thus it is recommended that readers become comfortable with how to apply these terms before continuing to the remaining categories. These terms are used to create simple provenance descriptions that can be elaborated using terms from other categories. The classes and properties in this category are listed below and are discussed in Section 3.1.

Expanded classes and properties provide additional terms that can be used to relate classes in the Starting Point category. The terms in this category are applied in the same way as the terms in the Starting Point category. Many of the terms in this category are subclasses or subproperties of those in the Starting Point category. The classes and properties in this category are listed below and are discussed in Section 3.2.

Qualified classes and properties provide elaborated information about binary relations asserted using Starting Point and Expanded properties. The terms in this category are applied using a pattern that differs from those in the Starting Point and Expanded categories. While the relations from the previous two categories are applied as direct, binary assertions, the terms in this category are used to provide additional attributes of the binary relations. The pattern used in this category allows users to provide elaborate details that are not available using only Starting Point and Expanded terms. The classes and properties in this category are listed below and are discussed in Section 3.3.

3. The PROV-O Ontology Description

This section introduces the terms in each of the following categories:

3.1 Starting Point Terms

The Starting Point category is a small set of classes and properties that can be used to create simple, initial provenance descriptions. Three classes provide a basis for the rest of PROV-O:

The three primary classes relate to one another and to themselves using the properties shown in the following figure.

Activities start and end at particular points in time (described using properties prov:startedAtTime and prov:endedAtTime, respectively) and during their lifespan can use and generate a variety of Entities (described with prov:used and prov:wasGeneratedBy, respectively). For example, a blog writing activity may use a particular dataset and generate a bar chart. By expressing usage and generation, one can construct provenance chains comprising both Activities and Entities.

In addition, we can say that an Activity prov:wasInformedBy another Activity to provide some dependency information without explicitly providing the activities' start and end times. A prov:wasInformedBy relation between Activities suggests that the informed Activity used an Entity that was generated by the informing Activity, but the Entity itself is unknown or is not of interest. So, the prov:wasInformedBy property allows the construction of provenance chains comprising only Activities.

Provenance chains comprising only Entities can be formed using the prov:wasDerivedFrom property. A derivation is a transformation of one entity into another. For example, if the Activity that created the bar chart is not known or is not of interest, then we can say that the bar chart prov:wasDerivedFrom the dataset. Arbitrary RDF properties can be used to describe the fixed aspects of an Entity that are interesting within a particular application (for example, the file size and format of the dataset, or the aspect ratio of the bar chart).

While the properties prov:used, prov:wasGeneratedBy, prov:wasInformedBy, and prov:wasDerivedFrom can be used to construct provenance chains among Activities and Entities, Agents may also be ascribed responsibility for any Activity or Entity within a provenance chain. An Agent's responsibility for an Activity or Entity is described using the properties prov:wasAssociatedWith and prov:wasAttributedTo, respectively. Agents can also be responsible for other Agents' actions. In this case of delegation, the influencing Agent prov:actedOnBehalfOf another Agent that also bears responsibility for the influenced Activity or Entity.

PROV-O Starting Point terms
Figure 1. The three Starting Point classes and the properties that relate them.
The diagrams in this document depict Entities as yellow ovals,
Activities as blue rectangles, and Agents as orange pentagons.
The responsibility properties are shown in pink.

Example 1: The following PROV-O describes the resources involved when creating a chart about crime statistics. The example uses only Starting Point terms and serves as a basis for elaboration that will be described in subsequent sections. In the example, Derek performs an aggregation of some government crime data, grouping by national regions that are described in a separate dataset by a civil action group.

@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.org#> .

:bar_chart
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy  :illustrationActivity;
   prov:wasDerivedFrom  :aggregatedByRegions;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :derek;
.

:derek
   a foaf:Person, prov:Agent;
   foaf:givenName       "Derek";
   foaf:mbox            <mailto:derek@example.org>;
   prov:actedOnBehalfOf :natonal_newspaper_inc;
.

:national_newspaper_inc 
   a foaf:Organization, prov:Agent;
   foaf:name "National Newspaper, Inc.";
.

:illustrationActivity 
   a prov:Activity; 
   prov:used              :aggregatedByRegions;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :derek;
   prov:wasInformedBy     :aggregationActivity;
.

:aggregatedByRegions
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy  :aggregationActivity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :derek;
.

:aggregationActivity
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:startedAtTime    "2011-07-14T01:01:01Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :derek;
   prov:used              :crimeData;
   prov:used              :nationalRegionsList;
   prov:endedAtTime      "2011-07-14T02:02:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

:crimeData
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :government;
.
:government a foaf:Organization, prov:Agent .

:nationalRegionsList 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :civil_action_group;
.
:civil_action_group a foaf:Organization, prov:Agent .

The example states that the agent :derek was associated with two activities: :aggregationActivity and :illustrationActivity. The activity :aggregationActivity used the entities :crimeData (a crime statistics dataset) and :nationalRegionsList (a list of national regions), and generated a new entity, :aggregatedByRegions that aggregates the statistics in :crimeData according to the regions in :nationalRegionsList. The :aggregatedByRegions entity was then used by the :illustrationActivity activity, to generate a new entity :bar_chart that depicts the aggregated statistics.

The example also states that the activity :illustrationActivity was informed by the activity :aggregationActivity. Indeed, the former used the entity :aggregatedByRegions, which was generated by the latter.

Because the agent :derek was associated with the activities :aggregationActivity and :illustrationActivity, the entities generated by these activities, i.e., :aggregatedByRegions and :bar_chart, were also attributed to him.

Finally, the example states that the agent :derek acted on behalf of the organization :national_newspaper_inc.

Illustration of Derek making a bar chart from some aggregated government data.
Figure 2. A graphical illustration of the PROV-O in Example 1, showing how the three Starting Point classes relate.
The diagrams in this document depict Entities as yellow ovals, Activities as blue rectangles,
and Agents as orange pentagons. The responsibility properties are shown in pink.

3.2 Expanded Terms

The terms introduced in this section provide additional ways to describe the provenance among Entities, Activities, and Agents. The additional terms are illustrated in the following figure and can be separated into five different categories.

PROV-O Starting Point terms
Figure 3. The expanded terms build upon those in the Starting Points section.
The diagrams in this document depict Entities as yellow ovals, Activities as blue rectangles, and Agents as orange pentagons.
The domain of prov:atLocation (prov:Activity or prov:Entity or prov:Agent or prov:InstantaneousEvent) is not illustrated.

The first category extends the Starting Point terms with subclasses, subproperties, and a superproperty.

Three subclasses of Agent (prov:Person, prov:Organization, and prov:SoftwareAgent) and three subclasses of Entity are provided (prov:Collection, prov:Bundle, and prov:Plan).

A prov:Collection is an Entity that provides a structure (e.g. set, list, etc.) to some constituents (which are themselves Entities). The prov:Collection class can be used to express the provenance of the collection itself: e.g. who maintained the collection, which members it contained as it evolved, and how it was assembled. The prov:hadMember property is used to assert membership in a collection.

A prov:Bundle is a named set of provenance descriptions, which may itself have provenance. The named set of provenance descriptions may be expressed as PROV-O or any other form. The subclass of Bundle that names a set of PROV-O assertions is not provided by PROV-O, since it is more appropriate to do so using other recommendations, standards, or technologies. In any case, a Bundle of PROV-O assertions is an abstract set of RDF triples, and adding or removing a triple creates a new distinct Bundle of PROV-O assertions.

A prov:Plan is an entity that represents a set of actions or steps intended by one or more agents to achieve some goals.

More general and more specific properties are also provided by the expanded terms. More generally, the property prov:wasInfluencedBy is a superproperty that relates any influenced Entity, Activity, or Agent to any other influencing Entity, Activity, or Agent that had an effect on its characteristics. Three subproperties of prov:wasDerivedFrom are also provided for certain kinds of derivation among Entities: prov:wasQuotedFrom cites a potentially larger Entity (such as a book, blog, or image) from which a new Entity was created by repeating some or all of the original, prov:wasRevisionOf indicates that the derived Entity contains substantial content from the original Entity (e.g., two editions of a book), and prov:hadPrimarySource cites a preceding Entity produced by some agent with direct experience and knowledge about the topic (such as a reading from a sensor, or a journal written during an historical event).

The second category of expanded terms relates Entities according to their levels of abstraction, where some Entities may present more specific aspects than their more general counterparts. While prov:specializationOf links a more specific Entity to a more general one (e.g., today's BBC news home page versus BBC's news home page on any day), prov:alternateOf links Entities that present aspects of the same thing, but not necessarily the same aspects or at the same time (e.g., the serialization of a document in different formats or a backup copy of a computer file).

The third category of expanded terms allows further description of Entities. The property prov:value provides a literal value that is a direct representation of an entity. For example, the prov:value of a quote could be a string of the sentences stated, or the prov:value of an Entity involved in a numeric calculation could be the xsd:integer four. The property prov:atLocation can be used to describe the prov:Location of any Entity, Activity, Agent, or prov:InstantaneousEvent (i.e., the starting or ending of an activity or the generation, usage, or invalidation of an entity). The properties used to describe instances of prov:Location are outside the scope of PROV-O; reuse of other existing vocabulary is encouraged.

The fourth category of expanded terms describes the lifetime of an Entity beyond being generated by an Activity and used by other Activities. For example, a painting could not have been displayed before it was painted, and it could not be sold after it was destroyed by fire. Similar to how Activities have start and end times, an Entity may be bound by points in time for which it was generated or is no longer usable. The properties prov:generatedAtTime and prov:invalidatedAtTime can be used to bound the starting and ending moments of an Entity's existence. The Activities that led to the generation or invalidation of an Entity can be provided using prov:wasGeneratedBy and prov:wasInvalidatedBy, respectively. prov:generated and prov:invalidated are the inverses of prov:wasGeneratedBy and prov:wasInvalidatedBy, respectively, and are defined to facilitate Activity-as-subject as well as Entity-as-subject descriptions. For more about inverses, see the non-normative Appendix B.

The fifth category of expanded terms describes the lifetime of an Activity beyond its start and end times and predecessor Activities. Activities may also be started or ended by Entities, which are described using the properties prov:wasStartedBy and prov:wasEndedBy, respectively. Since Entities may start or end Activities, and Agents may be Entities, then Agents may also start or end Activities.

The following examples illustrate the expanded terms by elaborating the crime chart example from the previous section. After aggregating the dataset and creating the chart, Derek published a post to exhibit his work.

Example 2:

@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix sioc: <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix my:   <http://www.example.org/vocab#> .
@prefix :     <http://www.example.org#> .
@base         <http://www.example.com/derek-bundle.ttl> .

<> 
   a prov:Bundle, prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :postEditor;
   prov:generatedAtTime "2011-07-16T02:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

:derek
   a prov:Person, prov:Agent; ## prov:Agent is inferred from prov:Person
   foaf:givenName       "Derek";
   foaf:mbox            <mailto:derek@example.org>;
   prov:actedOnBehalfOf :national_newspaper_inc;
.

:national_newspaper_inc 
   a prov:Organization, prov:Agent;        ## prov:Agent is inferred from prov:Organization
   foaf:name "National Newspaper, Inc.";
.

:postEditor 
   a prov:SoftwareAgent, prov:Agent;       ## prov:Agent is inferred from prov:SoftwareAgent
   foaf:name "Post Editor 3000";
.   

:more-crime-happens-in-cities
   a sioc:Post, prov:Entity;
   sioc:latest_version   :post9821v2;
   sioc:previous_version :post9821v1;
.

## Version 1 of the post

:post9821v1
   a sioc:Post, prov:Entity;   
   prov:specializationOf  :more-crime-happens-in-cities; ## PERMALINK to the latest revision.
   sioc:title             "More crime happens in cities";
   prov:value             "I was currius...";            ## The text of this version (with a typo).
   prov:generatedAtTime   "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy    :publicationActivity1123;
   prov:wasInfluencedBy   :aggregatedByRegions; ## This blog was influenced by Derek's data analysis.
   prov:hadPrimarySource  :crimeData;           ## Derek's blog derives from the crime data originally
                                                ## gathered by the government.
   prov:invalidatedAtTime "2011-07-16T02:02:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

:publicationActivity1123 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:startedAtTime     "2011-07-16T01:01:01Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:wasStartedBy      :derek;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :postEditor;
   prov:generated         :post9821v1;
   prov:endedAtTime       "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:wasEndedBy        :derek;
.

:aggregatedByRegions
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:atLocation <file://Users/aggr.txt>;
.
<file://Users/aggr.txt> a prov:Location .

:crimeData
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :government;
.
:government 
   a prov:Organization, prov:Agent;
.

## Version 2 of the post

:post9821v2
   a sioc:Post, prov:Entity;
   prov:specializationOf :more-crime-happens-in-cities; ## PERMALINK to the latest revision.
   prov:value            "I was curious...";            ## The text of this version (with fixed typo).
   prov:generatedAtTime  "2011-07-16T02:02:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:wasRevisionOf    :post9821v1;
   prov:alternateOf      :post9821v1;
.

Agent :derek, acting again on behalf of the :national_newspaper_inc organization, used the :postEditor tool to publish a post about his recent data analysis :aggregatedByRegions. The blog editing tool tracked Derek's actions as PROV-O assertions and published them as a Bundle (the current file <>). The tool recorded that :derek started and ended the publishing activity (:publicationActivity1123) that generated the post :post9821v1. The post included a permanent link where the content of the latest version is available (:more-crime-happens-in-cities) in addition to a textual snapshot of the current version (using prov:value). Derek also included additional domain-specific descriptions of the post, such as its title.

Shortly after publishing the post, Derek noticed a typographical error in his narrative. Because the fix would be minimal, he did not record the activity that led to the new version. Instead, he related the new version (:post9821v2) as a revision of the previous (:post9821v1). Since both versions of the blog are forms of the long-standing blog permalink :more-crime-happens-in-cities, the revisions are alternates of one another and each is a prov:specializationOf of :more-crime-happens-in-cities.

PROV-O Starting Point terms
Figure 4. An illustration of the PROV-O assertions in Example 2, where Derek
published two versions of a blog for the National Newspaper, Inc.
The diagrams in this document depict Entities as yellow ovals, Activities as blue rectangles,
and Agents as orange pentagons. The responsibility properties are shown in pink.

Shortly after Derek published his blog post, Monica adapted the text for a wider audience in a new post (:post9822). This rewrite is an alternate, abbreviated view of the same topic that Derek wrote about and was created from his original text. Since the provenance produced by the activities of Derek and Monica corresponded to different user views, the system automatically published it in a different prov:Bundle. The tool also asserted provenance about the bundle that it produced (e.g., the date of creation, its creator, and the fact that it Derek's bundle was used). Because a bundle is a kind of entity, all provenance assertions that can be made about entities can also be made about bundles. The use of bundles enables the creation of provenance of provenance.

Example 3:

@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix sioc: <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://www.example.org#> .
@base         <http://www.example.com/monica-bundle.ttl> .

<>
   a prov:Bundle, prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :postEditor;
   prov:wasDerivedFrom  <http://www.example.com/derek-bundle.ttl> .
   prov:generatedAtTime "2011-07-16T03:03:03Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

:monica
   a prov:Person, prov:Agent;
   foaf:givenName "Monica";
   foaf:mbox      <mailto:monica@example.org>;
.

## Revised post for a different audience is a new resource.

:post9822
   a sioc:Post, prov:Entity;
   sioc:title "More crime happens in cities (for dummies)";
   prov:wasAttributedTo  :monica,
                         :postEditor;
   prov:alternateOf      :more-crime-happens-in-cities;    ## This post is an alternate of Derek's blog.
   prov:value            "A quick overview of Derek's..."; ## Snapshot with the content of this version
   prov:wasRevisionOf    :post9821v2;                      ## Monica rewrote Derek's version 2 to create hers.
.

After some time, John wrote his own conclusions in his own post (:post19201) quoting the previous two posts. Each quote that John makes (:quote_from_monica and :quote_from_derek) is a new entity derived from the previous blogs and is annotated with the time that the quote was taken. The provenance of John's blog notes that his post is the result of the quotes that he took from Derek and Monica. The blog post is also derived from Derek's :aggregatedByRegions dataset because John inspected it and found a concern that he discusses in his blog. All the provenance statements related to John's post are grouped in a new prov:Bundle.

Example 4:

@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix sioc: <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://www.example.org#> .
@base         <http://www.example.com/john-bundle.ttl> .

<> 
   a prov:Bundle, prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :postEditor;
   prov:wasDerivedFrom <http://www.example.com/derek-bundle.ttl>,
                       <http://www.example.com/monica-bundle.ttl>;
   prov:generatedAtTime "2012-08-08T08:08:08Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

:publicationActivity1124
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :postEditor,
                        :john;
   prov:generated :post19201;
.

:post19201
   a sioc:Post, prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :john;
   prov:value "I'm not so sure that...";
   prov:wasDerivedFrom :quote_from_derek,
                       :quote_from_monica,
                       :aggregatedByRegions;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy :publicationActivity1124;
.

:john 
   a prov:Person, prov:Agent;
   foaf:name "John";
.

:quote_from_derek
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:value "Analysis of the datasets demonstrates that there is more crime.";
   prov:wasQuotedFrom   :more-crime-happens-in-cities;
   prov:generatedAtTime "2012-08-08T01:01:01Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.
   
:quote_from_monica
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:value "In summary, there are clearly more crimes in the country.";
   prov:wasQuotedFrom   :post9822;
   prov:generatedAtTime "2012-08-08T02:02:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

Unfortunately, there was a problem in the servers where :post19201 was being stored, and all the data related to the post was lost permanently. Thus, the system invalidated the entity automatically and notified John about the error.

Example 5:

@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix sioc: <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.org#> .

:post19201
   a sioc:Post, prov:Entity;
   prov:invalidatedAtTime "2012-09-02T01:31:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:wasInvalidatedBy :hard_disk_failure;
.

:hard_disk_failure
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:endedAtTime "2012-09-02T01:31:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

3.3 Qualified Terms

The Qualified Terms category is the result of applying the Qualification Pattern [LD-Patterns-QR] to the simple (unqualified) relations available in the Starting Point and Expanded categories. The terms in this category are for users who wish to provide further details about the provenance-related influence among Entities, Activities, and Agents.

The Qualification Pattern restates an unqualified influence relation by using an intermediate class that represents the influence between two resources. This new instance, in turn, can be annotated with additional descriptions of the influence that one resource had upon another. The following two tables list the influence relations that can be qualified using the Qualification Pattern, along with the properties used to qualify them. For example, the second row of the first table indicates that to elaborate how an prov:Activity prov:used a particular prov:Entity, one creates an instance of prov:Usage that indicates the influencing entity with the prov:entity property. Meanwhile, the influenced prov:Activity indicates the prov:Usage with the property prov:qualifiedUsage. The resulting structure that qualifies the an Activity's usage of an Entity is illustrated in Figure 4a below.

The qualification classes and properties shown in the previous two tables can also be found in the normative cross reference in the next section of this document. All influence classes (e.g. prov:Association, prov:Usage) are extensions of prov:Influence and either prov:EntityInfluence, prov:ActivityInfluence, or prov:AgentInfluence, which determine the property used to cite the influencing resource (either prov:entity, prov:activity, or prov:agent, respectively). 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.

Example 6:

For example, given the unqualified statement:

:e1 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy :a1;
.

:a1 a prov:Activity .

One can find that prov:wasGeneratedBy can be qualified using the qualification property prov:qualifiedGeneration, the class prov:Generation (a subclass of prov:ActivityInfluence), and the property prov:activity. From this, the influence relation above can be restated with the qualification pattern as:

Example 7:

:e1 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy      :a1;
   prov:qualifiedGeneration :e1Gen; # Add the qualification.
.

:e1Gen 
   a prov:Generation;
   prov:activity            :a1;    # Cite the influencing Activity.
   ex:foo                   :bar;   # Describe the Activity :a1's influence upon the Entity :e1.
.

:a1 a prov:Activity .

The asserter can thus attach additional properties to :e1Gen to describe the generation of :e1 by :a1.

As can be seen in this example, qualifying an influence relation provides a second form (e.g. :e1 prov:qualifiedGeneration :e1Gen) to express an equivalent influence relation (e.g. :e1 prov:wasGeneratedBy :a1). It is correct and acceptable for an implementer to use either qualified or unqualified forms as they choose (or both), and a consuming application should be prepared to recognize either form. Consuming applications should recognize both qualified and unqualified forms, and treat the qualified form as implying the unqualified form. Because the qualification form is more verbose, the unqualified form should be favored in cases where additional properties are not provided. When the qualified form is expressed, including the equivalent unqualified form can facilitate PROV-O consumption, and is thus encouraged.

In addition to the previous two tables, Figure 4 illustrates the classes and properties needed to apply the qualification pattern to ten of the fourteen qualifiable influence relations. For example, while prov:qualifiedUsage, prov:Usage, and prov:entity are used to qualify prov:used relations, prov:qualifiedAssociation, prov:Association, and prov:agent are used to qualify prov:wasAssociatedWith relations. This pattern applies to the twelve other influence relations that can be qualified.

In subfigure a the prov:qualifiedUsage property parallels the prov:used property and references an instance of prov:Usage, which in turn provides attributes of the prov:used relation between the Activity and Entity. The prov:entity property is used to cite the Entity that was used by the Activity. In this case, the time that the Activity used the Entity is provided using the prov:atTime property and a literal xsd:dateTime value. The prov:atTime property can be used to describe any prov:InstantaneousEvent (including prov:Start, prov:Generation, prov:Usage, prov:Invalidation, and prov:End).

Similarly in subfigure j, the prov:qualifiedAssociation property parallels the prov:wasAssociatedWith property and references an instance of prov:Association, which in turn provides attributes of the prov:wasAssociatedWith relation between the Activity and Agent. The prov:agent property is used to cite the Agent that influenced the Activity. In this case, the plan of actions and steps that the Agent used to achieve its goals is provided using the prov:hadPlan property and an instance of prov:Plan. Further, the prov:hadRole property and prov:Role class can be used to describe the function that the agent served with respect to the Activity. Both prov:Plan and prov:Role are left to be extended by applications.

Express association between an activity and an agent using a binary relationship and an alternatie qualified relationship
Figure 4: Illustration of the properties and classes to use (in blue) to qualify the starting point and expanded influence relations (dotted black).
The diagrams in this document depict Entities as ovals, Activities as rectangles, and Agents as pentagons. Quotation, Revision, and PrimarySource are omitted because they are special forms of Derivation and follow the same pattern as subfigure g.

The following two examples show the result of applying the Usage and Association patterns to the chart-making example from Section 3.1.

Example 8:

Qualified Usage

The prov:qualifiedUsage property parallels the prov:used property to provide an additional description to :illustrationActivity. The instance of prov:Usage cites the data used (:aggregatedByRegions) and the time the activity used it (2011-07-14T03:03:03Z).

@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.org#> .

:illustrationActivity 
   a prov:Activity;                ## Using Starting Point terms,
   prov:used :aggregatedByRegions; ##   the illustration activity used the aggregated data (to create the bar chart).
.

:aggregatedByRegions a prov:Entity .

:illustrationActivity      
   prov:qualifiedUsage [                                ## Qualify how the :illustrationActivity
      a prov:Usage;                                     ##   used
      prov:entity :aggregatedByRegions;                 ##     the Entity :aggregatedByRegions

      prov:atTime "2011-07-14T03:03:03Z"^^xsd:dateTime; ## Qualification: The aggregated data was used 
                                                        ##   at a particular time to create the bar chart..
   ];
.

Example 9:

Qualified Association

The prov:qualifiedAssociation property parallels the prov:wasAssociatedWith property to provide an additional description about the :illustrationActivity that Derek influenced. The instance of prov:Association cites the influencing agent (:derek) that followed the instructions (:tutorial_blog). Further, Derek served the role of :illustrationist during the activity.

@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.org#> .

:illustrationActivity
   a prov:Activity;                ## Using Starting Point terms,
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :derek;  ##   the illustration activity was associated with Derek in some way.
.

:derek a prov:Agent .

:illustrationActivity
   prov:qualifiedAssociation [       ## Qualify how the :illustrationActivity
      a prov:Association;            ##   was associated with
      prov:agent   :derek            ##     the Agent Derek.

      prov:hadRole :illustrationist; ## Qualification: The role that Derek served.
      prov:hadPlan :tutorial_blog;   ## Qualification: The plan (or recipe, instructions)
                                     ##   that Derek followed when creating the graphical chart.
   ];
.

:tutorial_blog   a prov:Plan, prov:Entity .
:illustrationist a prov:Role .

This section finishes with two more examples of qualification as applied to the chart-making example from Section 3.1.

Example 10:

Qualified Generation

The prov:qualifiedGeneration property parallels the prov:wasGeneratedBy property to provide an additional description to :bar_chart. The instance of prov:Generation cites the time (2011-07-14T15:52:14Z) that the activity (:illustrationActivity) generated the chart (:bar_chart).

@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.org#> .

:bar_chart
   a prov:Entity;                              ## Using Starting Point terms,
   prov:wasGeneratedBy :illustrationActivity;  ##   the chart was generated in an illustration activity.
.

:illustrationActivity a prov:Activity .

:bar_chart
   prov:qualifiedGeneration [                           ## Qualify how the :bar_chart
      a prov:Generation;                                ##   was generated by
      prov:activity :illustrationActivity;              ##     the Activity :illustrationActivity.

      prov:atTime "2011-07-14T15:52:14Z"^^xsd:dateTime; ## Qualification: The Activity generated
                                                        ##   the bar_chart at a particular time.
   ];
.

Example 11:

Qualified Derivation

The prov:qualifiedDerivation property parallels the prov:wasDerivedFrom property to provide an additional description to :bar_chart. The instance of prov:Derivation cites the activity (:illustrationActivity) and the Usages and Generations that the activity conduced to create the :bar_chart.

@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.org#> .

:bar_chart
   a prov:Entity;                             ## Using Starting Point terms,
   prov:wasDerivedFrom :aggregatedByRegions;  ##   the chart was derived from the aggregated dataset.
.

:aggregatedByRegions a prov:Entity .

:bar_chart
   prov:qualifiedDerivation [                      ## Qualify
      a prov:Derivation;                           ##   how :bar_chart was derived from
      prov:entity        :aggregatedByRegions;     ##     the dataset Entity :aggregatedByRegions.

      prov:hadActivity   :aggregating_activity;    ## Qualification: The activity that derived the :bar_chart.
      prov:hadUsage      :use_of_aggregatedData;   ## Qualification: How the activity used :aggregatedByRegions.
      prov:hadGeneration :generation_of_bar_chart; ## Qualification: How the activity generated the :bar_chart.
   ];
.

4. Cross reference for PROV-O classes and properties

This section provides details for each class and property defined by the PROV Ontology, grouped by the categories described above:

The superscripts op and dp denote that a property is an OWL object property or data property, respectively.

Each PROV-O term in this cross reference links to the corresponding PROV-DM concept. The PROV-DM's table Cross-References to PROV-O and PROV-N provides an overview of the correspondences between PROV-O and PROV-DM.

The qualification classes and properties shown in Table 2 and Table 3 of the previous section can also be found in each entry of this cross reference. If the property can be qualified, the can be qualified with header indicates the qualifying property and influence class that should be used. Conversely, the qualifies headers in the listings for qualification terms indicate the unqualified property that they qualify. In the OWL file iteself, the annotation properties prov:qualifiedForm and prov:unqualifiedForm provide the same linkages between the unqualified properties and their qualifiying terms.

Most examples shown in this cross reference are encoded using the Turtle RDF serialization. When it is convenient to do so (e.g., when an example describes a prov:Bundle), it may use the [TRIG] syntax. Although this document does not specify how to encode Bundles in RDF, TriG's named graph construct is used only to illustrate the concept of creating a named set of PROV assertions. Note that all examples are non-normative.

4.1 Starting Point Terms

The classes and properties that provide a basis for all other PROV-O terms are discussed in Section 3.1.

Class: prov:Activity back to starting-point classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Activity

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:graduation
   a prov:Activity, :Graduation;
   prov:startedAtTime "2012-04-15T13:00:00-04:00"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:used          :ms_smith;
   prov:generated     :doctor_smith;
   prov:endedAtTime   "2012-04-15T14:30:00-04:00"^^xsd:dateTime;
.
:ms_smith     a prov:Entity .
:doctor_smith a prov:Entity .
described with properties:
prov:invalidated op , prov:wasStartedBy op , prov:qualifiedStart op , prov:qualifiedCommunication op , prov:startedAtTime dp , prov:qualifiedAssociation op , prov:wasEndedBy op , prov:wasInformedBy op , prov:generated op , prov:endedAtTime dp , prov:wasAssociatedWith op , prov:qualifiedEnd op , prov:qualifiedUsage op , prov:used op
prov:wasInfluencedBy op , prov:qualifiedInfluence op , prov:atLocation op
in range of
prov:wasInformedBy op prov:wasInvalidatedBy op prov:wasGeneratedBy op prov:hadActivity op prov:activity op
PROV-DM term
Activity

Class: prov:Agent back to starting-point classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Agent

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com#> .

:derek
   a prov:Agent, prov:Person;
   foaf:givenName      "Derek"^^xsd:string;
   foaf:mbox           <mailto:derek@example.org>;
   foaf:homePage       <http://derek.example.com>;
   prov:actedOnBehalfOf :national_newspaper_inc;
.

:national_newspaper_inc
   a prov:Agent, prov:Organization;
   foaf:name "National Newspaper, Inc.";
. 
described with properties:
prov:actedOnBehalfOf op , prov:qualifiedDelegation op
prov:wasInfluencedBy op , prov:qualifiedInfluence op , prov:atLocation op
in range of
prov:actedOnBehalfOf op prov:agent op prov:wasAssociatedWith op prov:wasAttributedTo op
has subclasses
prov:Organization , prov:Person , prov:SoftwareAgent
PROV-DM term
agent

Class: prov:Entity back to starting-point classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Entity

An entity is a physical, digital, conceptual, or other kind of thing with some fixed aspects; entities may be real or imaginary.

Example
@prefix rdfs:    <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:     <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:     <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix prov:    <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :        <http://example.com/> .

:bar_chart 
   a prov:Entity;
   dcterms:title "Aggregated statistics from the crime file"^^xsd:string;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :derek;
.

:derek a prov:Agent .
described with properties:
prov:hadPrimarySource op , prov:qualifiedQuotation op , prov:value dp , prov:qualifiedGeneration op , prov:qualifiedAttribution op , prov:wasQuotedFrom op , prov:wasGeneratedBy op , prov:alternateOf op , prov:wasRevisionOf op , prov:wasInvalidatedBy op , prov:invalidatedAtTime dp , prov:qualifiedInvalidation op , prov:qualifiedRevision op , prov:wasAttributedTo op , prov:wasDerivedFrom op , prov:qualifiedPrimarySource op , prov:qualifiedDerivation op , prov:generatedAtTime dp , prov:specializationOf op
prov:wasInfluencedBy op , prov:qualifiedInfluence op , prov:atLocation op
in range of
prov:hadMember op prov:hadPrimarySource op prov:invalidated op prov:wasStartedBy op prov:wasQuotedFrom op prov:wasEndedBy op prov:alternateOf op prov:wasRevisionOf op prov:generated op prov:wasDerivedFrom op prov:entity op prov:specializationOf op prov:used op
has subclasses
prov:Collection , prov:Plan , prov:Bundle
PROV-DM term
entity

Property: prov:actedOnBehalfOf op back to starting-point properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#actedOnBehalfOf

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:derek
   a prov:Agent;
   foaf:givenName "Derek"^^xsd:string;
   foaf:mbox      <mailto:derek@example.org>;
   prov:actedOnBehalfOf :national_newspaper_inc; 
.

:national_newspaper_inc 
   a prov:Agent, prov:Organization;
   foaf:name "National Newspaper, Inc.";
.

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.

has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
delegation

Property: prov:endedAtTime dp back to starting-point properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#endedAtTime

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:geneSequencing
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:startedAtTime "2012-04-25T01:30:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:used              :drosophilaSample-84;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :lab-technician-GH-32;
   prov:endedAtTime   "2012-04-25T03:40:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

:drosophilaSample-84  a prov:Entity .
:lab-technician-GH-32 a prov:Agent .

The time at which an activity ended. See also prov:startedAtTime.

has domain
has range
  • http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
End

Property: prov:startedAtTime dp back to starting-point properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#startedAtTime

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:geneSequencing
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:startedAtTime "2012-04-25T01:30:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:used              :drosophilaSample-84;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :lab-technician-GH-32;
   prov:endedAtTime   "2012-04-25T03:40:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

:drosophilaSample-84  a prov:Entity .
:lab-technician-GH-32 a prov:Agent .

The time at which an activity started. See also prov:endedAtTime.

has domain
has range
  • http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
Start

Property: prov:used op back to starting-point properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#used

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:sortActivity
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:atTime     "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:used       :datasetA;
   prov:generated  :datasetB;
.

:datasetA a prov:Entity.
:datasetB a prov:Entity.

# See qualified Usage for example on how the role of :datasetA can be described for this Activity

A prov:Entity that was used by this prov:Activity. For example, :baking prov:used :spoon, :egg, :oven .

has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
Usage

Property: prov:wasAssociatedWith op back to starting-point properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasAssociatedWith

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:illustrating
   a prov:Activity; 
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :derek;
.

:derek a prov:Person, prov:Agent, prov:Entity .

An prov:Agent that had some (unspecified) responsibility for the occurrence of this prov:Activity.

has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
Association

Property: prov:wasAttributedTo op back to starting-point properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasAttributedTo

Attribution is the ascribing of an entity to an agent.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:geneSequencing
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:startedAtTime "2012-04-25T01:30:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:used              :drosophilaSample-84;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :lab-technician-GH-32;
   prov:endedAtTime   "2012-04-25T03:40:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

:drosophilaSample-84  
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :lab-technician-FE-56;
.

:lab-technician-GH-32 a prov:Agent .
:lab-technician-FE-56 a prov:Agent .

Attribution is the ascribing of an entity to an agent.

has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
attribution

Property: prov:wasDerivedFrom op back to starting-point properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasDerivedFrom

A derivation is a transformation of an entity into another, a construction of an entity into another, or an update of an entity, resulting in a new one.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/vocab#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:bar_chart 
   a prov:Entity, ex:Barchart;
   prov:wasDerivedFrom :aggregatedByRegions;
.

:aggregatedByRegions
   a prov:Entity, ex:Dataset;
.

The more specific subproperties of prov:wasDerivedFrom (i.e., prov:wasQuotedFrom, prov:wasRevisionOf, prov:hadPrimarySource) should be used when applicable.

has super-properties
has domain
has range
has sub-properties
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
Derivation

Property: prov:wasGeneratedBy op back to starting-point properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasGeneratedBy

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:bar_chart
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy :illustrating;
.

:illustrating a prov:Activity .
has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
Generation

Property: prov:wasInformedBy op back to starting-point properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasInformedBy

Communication is the exchange of an entity by two activities, one activity using the entity generated by the other.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:writing-celebrity-gossip 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasInformedBy :voicemail-interception;
.

:voicemail-interception a prov:Activity .

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.

has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
Communication

4.2 Expanded Terms

The additional terms used to describe relations among Starting Point classes are discussed in Section 3.2.

Class: prov:Bundle back to expanded classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Bundle

A bundle is a named set of provenance descriptions, and is itself an Entity, so allowing provenance of provenance to be expressed.

Example
@prefix prov:    <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix xsd:     <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix my:      <http://example.com/my#> .
@prefix :        <http://example.com/#> .
@base <http://www.example.com/example.ttl> .

<> # A provenance file located at http://www.example.com/example.ttl
   a prov:Bundle;
   prov:generatedAtTime "2012-05-24T09:30:00"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :bob;
.

:report1
   a my:Report, prov:Entity;
   my:version "1";
   prov:generatedAtTime "2012-05-24T01:00:00"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :bob;
.

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.

is subclass of
prov:Entity
PROV-DM term
bundle-entity

Class: prov:Collection back to expanded classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#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.

Example
@prefix rdfs:    <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:     <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix owl:     <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov:    <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:      <http://example.com/ontology#> .
@prefix :        <http://example.com/> .

:todays-us-supreme-court
   a prov:Collection, :RobertsCourt;

   prov:qualifiedGeneration [
      a prov:Generation;
      
      # The generation is being qualified to be imprecise;
      # prov:generatedAtTime and prov:atTime specify exact instants in time.
      dcterms:date "2012"^^xsd:gYear; 
   ];                                 

   prov:hadMember
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Glover_Roberts,_Jr.>,
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Antonin_Scalia>, 
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anthony_Kennedy>, 
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Clarence_Thomas>, 
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg>,
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Breyer>,     
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Samuel_Alito>,      
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sonia_Sotomayor>,  
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Elena_Kagan>;   

   prov:wasDerivedFrom :the-first-us-supreme-court;

   dcterms:description :copied-string;
.

:copied-string
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:value """2010–present: A. Scalia A. Kennedy C. Thomas R.B. Ginsburg 
                 S. Breyer S. Alito S. Sotomayor E. Kagan""";
   prov:wasQuotedFrom :page-by-composition;
.

:page-by-seat
   a prov:Entity, ex:WikipediaPage;
   prov:specializationOf <http://purl.org/twc/page/wikipedia/us-supreme-court-by-seat>;
   prov:generatedAtTime "2011-08-31T12:51"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

:page-by-composition
   a prov:Entity, ex:WikipediaPage;
   prov:specializationOf <http://purl.org/twc/page/wikipedia/us-supreme-court-by-composition>;
   prov:generatedAtTime "2012-05-16T14:33"^^xsd:dateTime;
.
is subclass of
prov:Entity
described with properties:
prov:hadMember op
has subclass
prov:EmptyCollection
PROV-DM term
collection

Class: prov:EmptyCollection back to expanded classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#EmptyCollection

An empty collection is a collection without members.

Example
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.org/> .

:c a prov:EmptyCollection . # The collection is believed to not contain members.
is subclass of
prov:Collection
described with properties:
prov:hadMember op

Class: prov:Location back to expanded classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Location

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix sioc: <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

# A Location can be a path or a geographical location.

:post9821 
   a prov:Entity, sioc:Post;   
   prov:wasGeneratedBy :publicationActivity1123;
   prov:atLocation     :more-crime-happens-in-cities;
   prov:qualifiedGeneration [
      a prov:Generation;
      prov:activity    :publicationActivity1123;
      prov:atTime     "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime; 
      prov:atLocation <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Madrid>;
   ];
.

:publicationActivity1123      a prov:Activity.
:more-crime-happens-in-cities a prov:Location.
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Madrid> a prov:Location. 
in range of
prov:atLocation op
PROV-DM term
attribute-location

Class: prov:Organization back to expanded classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Organization

Agents of type Organization are social institutions such as companies, societies etc.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:W3C 
   a prov:Agent, prov:Organization;
   foaf:name "World Wide Web Consortium";
. 
is subclass of
prov:Agent
described with properties:
prov:qualifiedDelegation op , prov:actedOnBehalfOf op
PROV-DM term
agent

Class: prov:Person back to expanded classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Person

Agents of type Person are people.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pablo_Picasso>
   a prov:Person, prov:Agent;
   foaf:depiction <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Pablo_picasso_1.jpg>;
.
is subclass of
prov:Agent
described with properties:
prov:qualifiedDelegation op , prov:actedOnBehalfOf op
PROV-DM term
agent

Class: prov:SoftwareAgent back to expanded classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#SoftwareAgent

A software agent is running software.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

# Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot; 
# it can initiate and participate in web-crawling activities.

:googlebot
   a prov:SoftwareAgent;
   rdfs:label "Googlebot"^^xsd:string;
.
is subclass of
prov:Agent
described with properties:
prov:qualifiedDelegation op , prov:actedOnBehalfOf op
PROV-DM term
agent

Property: prov:alternateOf op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#alternateOf

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:bbc a prov:Agent .

:london_forecast_0412 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :bbc;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy [
      a prov:Activity;
      prov:endedAtTime "2012-04-12T00:00:00-04:00"^^xsd:dateTime;
   ];
   prov:alternateOf :london_forecast_043;
.

:london_forecast_0413 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :bbc;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy [
      a prov:Activity;
      prov:endedAtTime "2012-04-13T00:00:00-04:00"^^xsd:dateTime;
   ];
   prov:alternateOf :london_forecast_0412;
.

## :london_forecast_0412 and :london_forecast_0413 are both 
## specialization of the more general entity :london_forecast

:london_forecast 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :bbc;
.

:london_forecast_0412
   prov:specializationOf :london_forecast;
.
:london_forecast_0413
   prov:specializationOf :london_forecast;
.
has domain
has range
has sub-properties
PROV-DM term
alternate

Property: prov:atLocation op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#atLocation

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix sioc: <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

# A Location can be a path or a geographical location.

:post9821 
   a prov:Entity, sioc:Post;   
   prov:wasGeneratedBy :publicationActivity1123;
   prov:atLocation     :more-crime-happens-in-cities;
   prov:qualifiedGeneration [
      a prov:Generation;
      prov:activity    :publicationActivity1123;
      prov:atTime     "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime; 
      prov:atLocation <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Madrid>;
   ];
.

:publicationActivity1123      a prov:Activity .
:more-crime-happens-in-cities        a prov:Location .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Madrid> a prov:Location .

This property has multiple RDFS domains to suit multiple OWL Profiles. See PROV-O OWL Profile.

The Location of any resource.

has domain
has range
PROV-DM term
attribute-location

Property: prov:generated op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#generated

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:proteinDigestion
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:generated :peptideSample1;
.

:peptideSample1 a prov:Entity .
has super-properties
has domain
has range
has inverse
PROV-DM term
Generation

Property: prov:generatedAtTime dp back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#generatedAtTime

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

# A widget was generated 1:35:23 PM on April 3, 2012 UTC

:widget-789532
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:generatedAtTime "2012-04-03T13:35:23Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

# The above statement is equivalent to:
# :widget-789532 prov:qualifiedGeneration [ prov:atTime "2012-04-03T13:35:23Z"^^xsd:dateTime ] .

The time at which an entity was completely created and is available for use.

has domain
has range
  • http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
Generation

Property: prov:hadMember op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#hadMember

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs:    <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:     <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:     <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix prov:    <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:      <http://example.com/ontology#> .
@prefix :        <http://example.com/> .

:todays-us-supreme-court
   a prov:Collection, ex:RobertsCourt;
   dcterms:description [
      a prov:Entity;
      prov:value """2010–present: A. Scalia A. Kennedy C. Thomas R.B. Ginsburg S. 
                  Breyer S. Alito S. Sotomayor E. Kagan""";
      prov:wasQuotedFrom :page-by-composition;
   ];
   prov:qualifiedGeneration [
      a prov:Generation;
      
      # Since we need to be imprecise, we can't use prov:generatedAtTime or prov:atTime
      dcterms:date "2012"^^xsd:gYear;
   ];

   prov:wasDerivedFrom :the-first-us-supreme-court;

   prov:hadMember
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Glover_Roberts,_Jr.>,
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Antonin_Scalia>, 
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anthony_Kennedy>, 
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Clarence_Thomas>, 
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg>,
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Breyer>,     
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Samuel_Alito>,      
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sonia_Sotomayor>,  
      <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Elena_Kagan>;   
.

:page-by-seat
   a prov:Entity, ex:WikipediaPage;
   prov:specializationOf <http://purl.org/twc/page/wikipedia/us-supreme-court-by-seat>;
   prov:generatedAtTime "2011-08-31T12:51"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

:page-by-composition
   a prov:Entity, ex:WikipediaPage;
   prov:specializationOf <http://purl.org/twc/page/wikipedia/us-supreme-court-by-composition>;
   prov:generatedAtTime "2012-05-16T14:33"^^xsd:dateTime;
.
has super-properties
has domain
has range
PROV-DM term
collection

Property: prov:hadPrimarySource op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#hadPrimarySource

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs:    <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:     <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:     <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix foaf:    <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix prov:    <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix lang:    <http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/> .
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix frbr:    <http://purl.org/vocab/frbr/core#> .
@prefix :        <http://example.com/> .

## Having an primary source is a particular case of derivation.

<http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/996>
   a prov:Entity, frbr:Work;
   dcterms:title          "Don Quixote";
   prov:wasAttributedTo   :ormsby;
   dcterms:language       lang:eng;
   prov:hadPrimarySource <http://cultura.linkeddata.es/BNE/resource/C1001/XX2197892>;
.

#### The English version book is a translation that is based on the original Spanish book

<http://cultura.linkeddata.es/BNE/resource/C1001/XX2197892>
    a prov:Entity, frbr:Work;
    prov:wasAttributedTo :cervantes;
    dcterms:language     lang:spa;
.

:cervantes
   a prov:Person;
   foaf:name "Miguel de Cervantes";
.

:ormsby
   a prov:Person;
   foaf:name "John Ormsby";
.
has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
primary-source

Property: prov:influenced op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#influenced

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix w3:   <http://example.com/w3/> .
@prefix tr:   <http://example.com/tech-report/> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

# prov:influenced is a top-level property that links any
# Entity, Activity, or Agent to any other 
# Entity, Activity, or Agent that it had an effect upon.

w3:Consortium 
   a prov:Agent;
   prov:influenced tr:WD-prov-dm-20111215;
.
has inverse
has sub-properties
PROV-DM term
influence

Property: prov:invalidated op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#invalidated

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/ontology#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:swissair_Flight_111_crash 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:used        <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Swissair_Flight_111>;
   prov:invalidated :the-Painter;
.

:the-Painter 
   a prov:Entity, ex:Painting;
   rdfs:label "Le Peintre"@fr, "The Painter"@en;
   prov:wasAttributedTo <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pablo_Picasso>;
   
   # Inferred from prov:invalidated
   prov:wasInvalidatedBy :swissair_Flight_111_crash;   
.

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pablo_Picasso> 
   a prov:Agent;
   foaf:depiction <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Pablo_picasso_1.jpg>;
.
has super-properties
has domain
has range
has inverse
PROV-DM term
Invalidation

Property: prov:invalidatedAtTime dp back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#invalidatedAtTime

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/ontology#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:the-Painter 
   a prov:Entity, ex:Painting;
   rdfs:label "Le Peintre"@fr, "The Painter"@en;
   prov:wasAttributedTo <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pablo_Picasso>;
   prov:invalidatedAtTime "1998-09-02T01:31:00Z";
.

The time at which an entity was invalidated (i.e., no longer usable).

has domain
has range
  • http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
Invalidation

Property: prov:specializationOf op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#specializationOf

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:london_forecast_0412 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :bbc;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy [
      a prov:Activity;
      prov:endedAtTime "2012-04-12T00:00:00-04:00"^^xsd:dateTime;
   ];
.

:london_forecast_0413 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :bbc;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy [
      a prov:Activity;
      prov:endedAtTime "2012-04-13T00:00:00-04:00"^^xsd:dateTime;
   ];
.

:london_forecast 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :bbc;
.

## :london_forecast_0412 and :london_forecast_0413 are both 
## specialization of the more general entity :london_forecast

:london_forecast_0412  
   prov:alternateOf      :london_forecast_0413;
   prov:specializationOf :london_forecast;
.
has super-properties
has domain
has range
PROV-DM term
specialization

Property: prov:value dp back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value

The main value (if there is one) of a structured value.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:copied-string
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:value 
      """2010–present: A. Scalia A. Kennedy C. Thomas R.B. Ginsburg 
         S. Breyer S. Alito S. Sotomayor E. Kagan""";
   prov:wasQuotedFrom 
      <http://purl.org/twc/page/wikipedia/us-supreme-court-by-composition>;
.

Provides a value for an Entity.

has domain
PROV-DM term
attribute-value

Property: prov:wasEndedBy op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasEndedBy

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:experiment 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasEndedBy :inconsistentResult;
   prov:qualifiedEnd [
      a prov:End;
      prov:entity     :inconsistentResult;
      prov:atTime    "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
      prov:atLocation :scienceLab_003;
   ];
.

:inconsistentResult a prov:Entity .
:scienceLab_003     a prov:Location .

End is when an activity is deemed to have ended. An end may refer to an entity, known as trigger, that terminated the activity.

has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
End

Property: prov:wasInvalidatedBy op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasInvalidatedBy

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:the-Painter 
   a prov:Entity, :Painting;
   rdfs:label "Le Peintre"@fr, "The Painter"@en;
   prov:wasAttributedTo <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pablo_Picasso>;
   prov:wasInvalidatedBy :Swissair_Flight_111_crash; #The painting was destroyed in an airplane crash
.

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pablo_Picasso> 
   a prov:Agent;
   foaf:depiction <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Pablo_picasso_1.jpg>;
.

:Swissair_Flight_111_crash 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:used <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Swissair_Flight_111>;
.
has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
Invalidation

Property: prov:wasQuotedFrom op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasQuotedFrom

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:bl-dagstuhl
   a prov:Entity;

   prov:value """During the workshop, it became clear to me that the consensus
   based models (which are often graphical in nature) can not only be
   formalized but also be directly connected to these database focused
   formalizations. I just needed to get over the differences in syntax.
   This could imply that we could have nice way to trace provenance across
   systems and through databases and be able to understand the
   mathematical properties of this interconnection.""";

   prov:wasQuotedFrom <http://purl.org/twc/page/thoughts-from-the-dagstuhl-workshop>;
.

<http://purl.org/twc/page/thoughts-from-the-dagstuhl-workshop>
   a prov:Entity;
.

An entity is derived from an original entity by copying, or 'quoting', some or all of it.

has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
quotation

Property: prov:wasRevisionOf op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasRevisionOf

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix sioc: <http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:post9821v1
   a prov:Entity, sioc:Post;
   prov:wasRevisionOf :post9821;
   rdfs:comment ":post9821v1 is a post, which is a revision of the original post :post9821.";
.    

A revision is a derivation that revises an entity into a revised version.

has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
revision

Property: prov:wasStartedBy op back to expanded properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasStartedBy

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

# Use prov:qualifiedStart to see when and where the activity was started

:experiment
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasStartedBy :researcher;
.

:researcher a prov:Agent .

Start is when an activity is deemed to have started. A start may refer to an entity, known as trigger, that initiated the activity.

has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
Start

4.3 Qualified Terms

The terms used to qualify the Starting Point and Expanded properties are discussed in Section 3.3.

Class: prov:ActivityInfluence back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:bar_chart 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy      :illustrating;
   prov:qualifiedGeneration :making-bar-chart;
. 

:making-bar-chart
   a prov:Generation, 
     prov:ActivityInfluence;  ## Instances of Generation, Invalidation and Communication qualify
   prov:activity :illustrating; ## the influence of an Activity (cited by prov:activity)
   rdfs:comment "Ended up with bar chart as line chart looked ugly."@en;
.

:illustrating a prov:Activity .

It is not recommended that the type ActivityInfluence be asserted without also asserting one of its more specific subclasses.

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.

is subclass of
prov:Influence
described with properties:
prov:activity op
prov:influencer op , prov:hadRole op , prov:hadActivity op
has subclasses
prov:Invalidation , prov:Generation , prov:Communication

Class: prov:AgentInfluence back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#AgentInfluence

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:illustrating
    a prov:Activity; 
    prov:wasAssociatedWith :derek;
    prov:qualifiedAssociation [
       a prov:Association, 
         prov:AgentInfluence; ## Instances of Generation, Invalidation and Communication qualify
       prov:agent   :derek;   ## the influence of an Agent (cited by prov:agent)
       prov:hadRole :illustrationist
    ];
.

:derek a prov:Person, prov:Agent, prov:Entity .

:illustratonist a prov:Role .

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.

It is not recommended that the type AgentInfluence be asserted without also asserting one of its more specific subclasses.

is subclass of
prov:Influence
described with properties:
prov:agent op
prov:influencer op , prov:hadRole op , prov:hadActivity op
has subclasses
prov:Delegation , prov:Association , prov:Attribution

Class: prov:Association back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Association

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:illustrating
    a prov:Activity; 
    prov:wasAssociatedWith :derek, 
                           :steve;
    prov:qualifiedAssociation [
        a prov:Association;
        prov:agent   :derek;
        prov:hadRole :illustrationist;
    ];
    prov:qualifiedAssociation [
        a prov:Association;
        prov:agent   :steve;
        prov:hadRole :stylist;
        prov:hadPlan :style-guide;
        rdfs:comment "Steve helped Derek conform with the publisher's style guide."@en;
    ];
.

:derek a prov:Person, prov:Agent, prov:Entity .
:steve a prov:Person, prov:Agent, prov:Entity .

:illustratonist a prov:Role .
:stylist        a prov:Role .

:style-guide a prov:Plan, prov:Entity .

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 ].

is subclass of
prov:AgentInfluence
described with properties:
prov:hadPlan op
prov:hadRole op
prov:agent op
in range of
prov:qualifiedAssociation op
qualifies
prov:wasAssociatedWith op
PROV-DM term
Association

Class: prov:Attribution back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/vocab#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Fallingwater>
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edgar_J._Kaufmann>,
                        <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Frank_Lloyd_Wright>,
                        :western-Pennsylvania-Conservancy;
   prov:qualifiedAttribution [
      a prov:Attribution;
      prov:agent <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edgar_J._Kaufmann>;
      ex:hadRole :owner;
   ];
   prov:qualifiedAttribution [
      a prov:Attribution;
      prov:agent <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Frank_Lloyd_Wright>;
      ex:hadRole :architect;
   ];
   prov:qualifiedAttribution [
      a prov:Attribution;
      prov:agent :western-Pennsylvania-Conservancy;
      ex:hadRole :conserver;
   ];
.

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Edgar_J._Kaufmann>  a prov:Person, prov:Agent .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Frank_Lloyd_Wright> a prov:Person, prov:Agent .
:western-Pennsylvania-Conservancy a prov:Organization, prov:Agent . 

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 ].

is subclass of
prov:AgentInfluence
described with properties:
prov:agent op
in range of
prov:qualifiedAttribution op
qualifies
prov:wasAttributedTo op
PROV-DM term
attribution

Class: prov:Communication back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Communication

Communication is the exchange of an entity by two activities, one activity using the entity generated by the other.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/vocab#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:writing-celebrity-gossip 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasInformedBy          :voicemail-interception;
   prov:qualifiedCommunication :informing-the-journalist;
.

:informing-the-journalist 
   a prov:Communication;
   prov:activity   :voicemail-interception;
   ex:mediaType "email";
.

:voicemail-interception a prov:Activity .

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 ].

is subclass of
prov:ActivityInfluence
described with properties:
prov:activity op
in range of
prov:qualifiedCommunication op
qualifies
prov:wasInformedBy op
PROV-DM term
Communication

Class: prov:Delegation back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Delegation

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/vocab#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

### In this example, Frank (an insurance agent) acts on behalf of his company for performing
### a policy sale
 
:policySale
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :insuranceAgent_Frank;
.

:insuranceAgent_Frank
   a prov:Person;
   prov:actedOnBehalfOf :insuranceCompany_A;
   prov:qualifiedDelegation [
      a prov:Delegation;
      prov:agent        :insuranceCompany_A;
      ex:rewardScheme   "commission";
      prov:hadActivity  :policySale ;
   ];
.

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 ].

is subclass of
prov:AgentInfluence
described with properties:
prov:hadActivity op
prov:agent op
in range of
prov:qualifiedDelegation op
qualifies
prov:actedOnBehalfOf op
PROV-DM term
delegation

Class: prov:Derivation back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Derivation

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

# The simplest (and least detailed) form of derivation.
:bar_chart 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasDerivedFrom :aggregatedByRegions;  
.

# The simple form can be accompanied by a qualified form:
# which provides more details about how :bar_chart was 
# derived from :aggregatedRegions.

:bar_chart
   a prov:Entity;
   
   prov:wasDerivedFrom :aggregatedByRegions;  
   prov:qualifiedDerivation [                  
      a prov:Derivation;                      
      prov:entity      :aggregatedByRegions;  
                          
      # Derivations can cite the influencing Activity in doing the derivation.
      prov:hadActivity   :create_the_chart;

      # They can also cite the Usage and Generation that the Activity 
      # performed to generate :bar_chart.
      prov:hadUsage      :data_loading;
      prov:hadGeneration :plot_the_chart;
   ];
.

### The process during which the chart was created, from loading the data to the software, to process the data and plot the chart.
### Additional metadata was recorded, like when it started (before the usage), ended (after the generation of the chart) and who was associated with it.

:create_the_chart 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :derek;
   prov:startedAtTime "2012-04-03T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:endedAtTime "2012-04-03T00:00:10Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

### The final chart was plotted

:plot_the_chart
   a prov:Generation, prov:InstantaneousEvent;
   prov:atTime "2012-04-03T00:00:01Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

### The data was getting used to create the chart

:data_loading
   a prov:Usage;
   prov:atTime "2012-04-03T00:00:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

The more specific forms of prov:Derivation (i.e., prov:Revision, prov:Quotation, prov:PrimarySource) should be asserted if they apply.

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 ].

is subclass of
prov:EntityInfluence
described with properties:
prov:hadGeneration op , prov:hadUsage op
prov:hadActivity op
prov:entity op
in range of
prov:qualifiedDerivation op
has subclasses
prov:Revision , prov:PrimarySource , prov:Quotation
qualifies
prov:wasDerivedFrom op
PROV-DM term
Derivation

Class: prov:End back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

### End can be used to qualify wasEndedBy with time and location information.
### In this example, an experiment is stopped because an intermediate inconsitent resul.

:experiment 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasEndedBy :inconsistentResult;
   prov:qualifiedEnd [
      a prov:End;
      prov:entity       :inconsistentResult;
      prov:atTime       "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
      prov:atLocation   :scienceLab_003;
      prov:hadActivity  :analyse_intermediate_result ; 
   ];
.
   
:inconsistentResult a prov:Entity .

### An implicit process analyzes the intermediate result to confirm its expected consistency

analyse_intermediate_result
   a   prov:Activity ;
   prov:startedAtTime   "2011-07-15T12:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:endedAtTime     "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

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 ].

is subclass of
prov:InstantaneousEvent , prov:EntityInfluence
described with properties:
prov:hadActivity op
prov:entity op , prov:atTime dp
in range of
prov:qualifiedEnd op
qualifies
prov:wasEndedBy op
PROV-DM term
End

Class: prov:EntityInfluence back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#EntityInfluence

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:sortActivity
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:used :rawData;
   prov:qualifiedUsage [
      a prov:Usage, 
        prov:EntityInfluence; ## Instances of Start, End, Usage, Derivation, and Invalidation
      prov:entity  :datasetA; ## qualify the influenced of an Entity (cited by prov:entity).
      prov:hadRole :inputToBeSorted;
   ];
   prov:generated :sortedData;
.

:rawData    a prov:Entity .
:sortedData a prov:Entity .

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.

It is not recommended that the type EntityInfluence be asserted without also asserting one of its more specific subclasses.

is subclass of
prov:Influence
described with properties:
prov:entity op
prov:influencer op , prov:hadRole op , prov:hadActivity op
has subclasses
prov:Usage , prov:Start , prov:End , prov:Derivation

Class: prov:Generation back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Generation

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix bbc:  <http://www.bbc.co.uk/> .
@prefix eg:   <http://example.com/vocab#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:bbcNews2012-04-03 
   a prov:Entity, eg:DailyNews;
   rdfs:comment """The BBC news home page on 2012-04-03 contained a reference 
                   to a given news item, but the BBC news home page on 
                   the next day did not.""";

   prov:wasGeneratedBy :publishingActivity;
   prov:qualifiedGeneration [
      a prov:Generation, prov:InstantaneousEvent;
      prov:atTime "2012-04-03T00:00:01Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
      prov:activity :publishingActivity;
   ];
   prov:qualifiedInvalidation [
      a prov:Invalidation, prov:InstantaneousEvent;
      prov:atTime "2012-04-03T23:59:59Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   ];
.

:publishingActivity 
   a prov:Activity;
.

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 ].

is subclass of
prov:InstantaneousEvent , prov:ActivityInfluence
described with properties:
prov:atTime dp , prov:activity op
in range of
prov:hadGeneration op prov:qualifiedGeneration op
qualifies
prov:wasGeneratedBy op
PROV-DM term
Generation

Class: prov:Influence back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix my:   <http://example.com/ontology#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

# Although a domain extension (e.g. ':wasConductedBy') is not defined by PROV-O,
# the relation between a surgery and an agent can still be qualified
# by reusing prov:Influence and one of its three subclasses 
# (depending on the type of influencer):
# AgentInfluence, EntityInfluence, and ActivityInfluence.

my:wasConductedBy rdfs:subPropertyOf prov:wasAssociatedWith .

:conductingSurgery_1
   a prov:Activity;
   
   # This unqualified influence is unknown in PROV, 
   # but would be a subproperty of wasAssociatedWith.
   my:wasConductedBy :bob;     
   
   # Even though PROV systems do not understand my:wasConductedBy, 
   prov:qualifiedAssociation [ 
      # they can recognize that the unknown relation 
      # is being qualified with a prov:hadRole.
      a prov:Association,     
        prov:AgentInfluence,   # Inferred
        prov:Influence;        # Inferred
      prov:agent   :bob;       # The object of my:wasConductedBy
      prov:hadRole my:surgeon;
   ];
.

:bob       a prov:Agent .
my:surgeon a prov:Role .

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.

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.

described with properties:
prov:influencer op , prov:hadRole op , prov:hadActivity op
in range of
prov:qualifiedInfluence op
has subclasses
prov:ActivityInfluence , prov:AgentInfluence , prov:EntityInfluence
qualifies
prov:wasInfluencedBy op
PROV-DM term
influence

Class: prov:InstantaneousEvent back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#InstantaneousEvent

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix bbc:  <http://www.bbc.co.uk/> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:bbcNews2012-04-03 
   a prov:Entity, :DailyNews;
   rdfs:comment """The BBC news home page on 2012-04-03 contained 
                   a reference to a given news item, but the BBC news 
                   home page on the next day did not.""";

   prov:qualifiedGeneration [
      a prov:Generation, prov:InstantaneousEvent;
      prov:atTime "2012-04-03T00:00:01Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   ];
   prov:qualifiedInvalidation [
      a prov:Invalidation, prov:InstantaneousEvent;
      prov:atTime "2012-04-03T23:59:59Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   ];
.

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.

described with properties:
prov:atTime dp
prov:atLocation op , prov:hadRole op
has subclasses
prov:Invalidation , prov:Start , prov:End , prov:Usage , prov:Generation

Class: prov:Invalidation back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix wgs:  <http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:the-Painter 
   a prov:Entity, :Painting;
   rdfs:label "Le Peintre"@fr, "The Painter"@en;
   prov:wasAttributedTo <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pablo_Picasso>;

   prov:wasInvalidatedBy :swissair_Flight_111_crash;
   prov:qualifiedInvalidation [
      a prov:Invalidation;
      prov:activity    :swissair_Flight_111_crash;
      prov:atTime      "1998-09-02T01:31:00Z";
      prov:atLocation  <http://purl.org/twc/location/Swissair-Flight-111-crash>;
   ];
. 

<http://purl.org/twc/location/Swissair-Flight-111-crash>
   a prov:Location;
   wgs:lat   44.409167;
   wgs:long -63.973611;
.

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pablo_Picasso> 
   a prov:Agent;
   foaf:depiction <http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Pablo_picasso_1.jpg>;
.

:swissair_Flight_111_crash 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:used          <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Swissair_Flight_111>;
   prov:startedAtTime "1998-09-02T01:31:00Z";
   prov:atLocation    <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Atlantic_ocean>;
.

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 ].

is subclass of
prov:InstantaneousEvent , prov:ActivityInfluence
described with properties:
prov:atTime dp , prov:activity op
in range of
prov:qualifiedInvalidation op
qualifies
prov:wasInvalidatedBy op
PROV-DM term
Invalidation

Class: prov:Plan back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Plan

A plan is an entity that represents a set of actions or steps intended by one or more agents to achieve some goals.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:illustrating 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:qualifiedAssociation :steve-checking-style-guide;
.

:steve-checking-style-guide
   a prov:Association;
   prov:agent   :steve;
   prov:hadPlan :style-guide;
   rdfs:comment "Steve followed the publisher's style guide"@en;
. 

:style-guide
   a prov:Plan, prov:Entity;
   rdfs:comment "Use blue graphs for positive spin, red for negative"@en;
.

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.

is subclass of
prov:Entity
in range of
prov:hadPlan op
PROV-DM term
Association

Class: prov:PrimarySource back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:myPost 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:hadPrimarySource :donQuixote;
   prov:qualifiedPrimarySource [
      a prov:PrimarySource;
      prov:entity :donQuixote;
      :confidenceValue "6"^^xsd:integer;
      rdfs:comment """Not sure if Don Quixote was the original source, 
                      so asserting a confidence value of 6 out of 10.""";
   ];
.

:donQuixote a prov:Entity.

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 ] .

is subclass of
prov:Derivation
described with properties:
prov:hadUsage op , prov:hadGeneration op
in range of
prov:qualifiedPrimarySource op
qualifies
prov:hadPrimarySource op
PROV-DM term
primary-source

Class: prov:Quotation back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Quotation

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/vocab#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:dagstuhl-quote
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:value   "why would people record and share provenance in the first place?";
   prov:wasQuotedFrom <http://purl.org/twc/page/thoughts-from-the-dagstuhl-workshop>;
   prov:qualifiedQuotation [
      a prov:Quotation;
      prov:entity     <http://purl.org/twc/page/thoughts-from-the-dagstuhl-workshop>;
      ex:fromSection 2;
   ];
   prov:wasAttributedTo <http://data.semanticweb.org/person/luc-moreau>;
.

<http://purl.org/twc/page/thoughts-from-the-dagstuhl-workshop> 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo <http://data.semanticweb.org/person/paul-groth>;
.

<http://data.semanticweb.org/person/luc-moreau> a prov:Person, prov:Agent .
<http://data.semanticweb.org/person/paul-groth> a prov:Person, prov:Agent .

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 ].

is subclass of
prov:Derivation
described with properties:
prov:hadUsage op , prov:hadGeneration op
in range of
prov:qualifiedQuotation op
qualifies
prov:wasQuotedFrom op
PROV-DM term
quotation

Class: prov:Revision back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/vocab#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:draft2 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasRevisionOf    :draft1;
   prov:qualifiedRevision [
      a prov:Revision;
      prov:entity        :draft1;
      ex:peerReviewed     false;
   ];

   prov:wasAssociatedWith :edward;
   prov:qualifiedAssociation [
      a prov:Association;
      prov:agent          :edward;
      prov:hadRole        :editor;
   ];
.

:draft1 a prov:Entity .

:edward 
   a prov:Person, prov:Agent;
.

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 ].

is subclass of
prov:Derivation
described with properties:
prov:hadUsage op , prov:hadGeneration op
in range of
prov:qualifiedRevision op
qualifies
prov:wasRevisionOf op
PROV-DM term
revision

Class: prov:Role back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Role

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:divideActivity 
   a prov:Activity;   
   prov:used :variableA, :variableB;

   prov:qualifiedUsage [
      a prov:Usage;
      prov:entity  :variableA;
      prov:hadRole :dividend;          
   ];
   prov:qualifiedUsage [
      a prov:Usage;
      prov:entity  :variableB;
      prov:hadRole :divisor;          
   ];

   prov:generated :result_112234;
.

:variableA 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:value 10;
.
:variableB 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:value 2;
.

:dividend a prov:Role.
:divisor  a prov:Role.

:result_112234 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:value 5;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy :divideActivity;
.
in range of
prov:hadRole op
PROV-DM term
attribute-role

Class: prov:Start back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Start

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

### Start can be used to qualify wasStartedBy with time and location information.
### In this example, a consistency checking activity is started by the update of a data record.

:consistency_checking
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasStartedBy :updated_data_record;
   prov:qualifiedStart [
      a prov:Start;
      prov:entity       :updated_data_record;
      prov:atTime       "2011-07-06T01:48:36Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
      prov:atLocation   :scienceLab_003;
      prov:hadActivity  :syntax_checking;
   ];
.

:updated_data_record a prov:Entity .

### There is an explicit process of checking the syntax of the updated data record

:syntax_checking
   a   prov:Activity ;
   prov:startedAtTime      "2011-07-06T01:48:36Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:endedAtTime        "2011-07-06T02:12:36Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith  :syntax_checker ;
.

:syntax_checker   a   prov:SoftwareAgent .

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 ] .

is subclass of
prov:InstantaneousEvent , prov:EntityInfluence
described with properties:
prov:hadActivity op
prov:entity op , prov:atTime dp
in range of
prov:qualifiedStart op
qualifies
prov:wasStartedBy op
PROV-DM term
Start

Class: prov:Usage back to qualified classes

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Usage

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:sortActivity 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:startedAtTime  "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime; 
   prov:qualifiedUsage [
      a prov:Usage;
      prov:entity    :datasetA;         ## The entity used by the prov:Usage
      prov:hadRole   :inputToBeSorted;  ## the role of the entity in this prov:Usage        
   ];
   prov:generated :datasetB;
.

:datasetA        a prov:Entity .
:datasetB        a prov:Entity .
:inputToBeSorted a prov:Role .

## The role of :datasetA cannot be expressed using only starting-point terms:

:sortActivity
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:startedAtTime     "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:used       :datasetA;
   prov:generated  :datasetB;
.

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 ].

is subclass of
prov:InstantaneousEvent , prov:EntityInfluence
described with properties:
prov:entity op , prov:atTime dp
in range of
prov:hadUsage op prov:qualifiedUsage op
qualifies
prov:used op
PROV-DM term
Usage

Property: prov:activity op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#activity

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:making-bar-chart
   a prov:Generation, 
     prov:ActivityInfluence;
   prov:activity :illustrating;
   rdfs:comment "Ended up with bar chart as line chart looked ugly."@en;
.

:illustrating a prov:Activity .

:bar_chart 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy :illustrating;
   prov:qualifiedGeneration :making-bar-chart;
.
has super-properties
has domain
has range

Property: prov:agent op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#agent

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:world_flight_1937
   a prov:Activity;

   prov:wasAssociatedWith <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Amelia_Earhart>,
                          <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Purdue_University>,
                          <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lockheed_Aircraft_Company>;
   prov:qualifiedAssociation [
      a prov:Association;
      prov:agent   <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Amelia_Earhart>;
      prov:hadRole :pilot;
   ];
   prov:qualifiedAssociation [
      a prov:Association;
      prov:agent   <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Purdue_University>;
      prov:hadRole :financer;
   ];
   prov:qualifiedAssociation [
      a prov:Association;
      prov:agent   <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lockheed_Aircraft_Company>;
      prov:hadRole :plane_builder;
   ];

   rdfs:seeAlso <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart#1937_world_flight>;
.

<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Amelia_Earhart>            a prov:Person,       prov:Agent .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Purdue_University>         a prov:Organization, prov:Agent .
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lockheed_Aircraft_Company> a prov:Organization, prov:Agent .

has super-properties
has domain
has range

Property: prov:atTime dp back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#atTime

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:Timearticle20120430_publication
   a prov:InstantaneousEvent;
   prov:atTime "2012-04-30T20:40:40"^^xsd:dateTime;
. 

The time at which an InstantaneousEvent occurred, in the form of xsd:dateTime.

has domain
has range
  • http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
qualifies
prov:invalidatedAtTime dp

Property: prov:entity op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#entity

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:world-literature-homework-submission-32 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:hadPrimarySource :donQuixote;
   prov:qualifiedPrimarySource [
      a prov:PrimarySource;
      prov:entity :donQuixote;
      # Other attributes of the relationship
   ];
.

:donQuixote a prov:Entity .
has super-properties
has domain
has range

Property: prov:hadActivity op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#hadActivity

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

# The activity that which used, generated, invalidated 
# or was responsible for the entity. In this qualified Derivation 
# prov:hadActivity references the activity that generated the bar chart.

:bar_chart
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasDerivedFrom :aggregatedByRegions;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy :make_bar_chart;
   prov:qualifiedDerivation [
      a prov:Derivation;
      prov:entity      :aggregatedByRegions;
      prov:hadActivity :make_bar_chart; # references same activity as prov:wasGeneratedBy
   ];
.

:aggregatedByRegions a prov:Entity .
:make_bar_chart      a prov:Activity .

This property has multiple RDFS domains to suit multiple OWL Profiles. See PROV-O OWL Profile.

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).

has domain
has range
PROV-DM term
Activity

Property: prov:hadGeneration op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#hadGeneration

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:bar_chart   
   prov:wasDerivedFrom   :aggregatedByRegions;
   prov:qualifiedDerivation [
      a prov:Derivation;
      prov:entity        :aggregatedByRegions;
      prov:hadGeneration :illustration;
   ];
.

:illustration   
   a prov:Generation, 
     prov:InstantaneousEvent;
   prov:atTime "2012-04-03T00:00:01Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

## An alternative way to express some of the above information

:bar_chart   
   prov:wasDerivedFrom :aggregatedByRegions;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy :illustrationActivity;
.

:illustrationActivity   
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:endedAtTime "2012-04-03T00:00:01Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

The _optional_ Generation involved in an Entity's Derivation.

has domain
has range
PROV-DM term
Generation

Property: prov:hadPlan op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#hadPlan

A plan is an entity that represents a set of actions or steps intended by one or more agents to achieve some goals.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:illustrating
   a prov:Activity; 
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :derek, 
                          :steve;
   prov:qualifiedAssociation [
      a prov:Association;
      prov:agent   :steve;
      prov:hadRole :stylist;
      prov:hadPlan :style-guide;
      rdfs:comment "Steve followed the style guide"@en;
   ];
.

:style-guide
   a prov:Plan, prov:Entity;
   rdfs:comment "Use blue graphs for positive spin, red for negative"@en;
.

The _optional_ Plan adopted by an Agent in Association with some Activity. Plan specifications are out of the scope of this specification.

has domain
has range
PROV-DM term
Association

Property: prov:hadRole op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#hadRole

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:divideActivity 
   a prov:Activity;   

   prov:used         :variableA;
   prov:qualifiedUsage [
      a prov:Usage;
      prov:entity    :variableA;
      prov:hadRole   :dividend;          
   ];
   
   prov:used         :variableB;
   prov:qualifiedUsage [
      a prov:Usage;
      prov:entity    :variableB;
      prov:hadRole   :divisor;          
   ];
.
   
:variableA a prov:Entity .
:variableB a prov:Entity .

:dividend a prov:Role .
:divisor  a prov:Role .

This property has multiple RDFS domains to suit multiple OWL Profiles. See PROV-O OWL Profile.

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 ].

has domain
has range
PROV-DM term
attribute-role

Property: prov:hadUsage op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#hadUsage

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .
:digestedProteinSample1
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasDerivedFrom :proteinSample;
   prov:qualifiedDerivation [
      a prov:Derivation;
      prov:hadUsage [
         a prov:Usage;
         prov:entity :Trypsin;
        prov:hadRole :treatmentEnzyme;
      ];
   ];
   prov:entity :proteinSample;
.
:proteinSample a prov:Entity .

The _optional_ Usage involved in an Entity's Derivation.

has domain
has range
PROV-DM term
Usage

Property: prov:influencer op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#influencer

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:illustrationActivity 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:qualifiedUsage         :illustration_usage;
   prov:qualifiedAssociation   :illustration_association;
   prov:qualifiedCommunication :illustration_communication;
.

:illustration_usage
   a prov:Usage;
   prov:entity     :aggregatedByRegions;
   prov:influencer :aggregatedByRegions; # Inferred
.

:illustration_association
   a prov:Association;
   prov:agent      :derek;
   prov:influencer :derek; # - - - - - - - Inferred
.

:illustration_communication
   a prov:Communication;
   prov:activity   :aggregationActivity;
   prov:influencer :aggregationActivity; # Inferred
.

:aggregationActivity a prov:Activity .  
:derek               a prov:Agent .
:aggregatedByRegions a prov:Entity .

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.

has domain
has range
has sub-properties
PROV-DM term
influence

Property: prov:qualifiedAssociation op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedAssociation

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:illustrating
    a prov:Activity; 
    prov:wasAssociatedWith :derek, 
                           :steve;
    prov:qualifiedAssociation [
        a prov:Association;
        prov:agent   :derek;
        prov:hadRole :illustrationist;
        rdfs:comment "Derek made the illustration"@en
    ];
    prov:qualifiedAssociation [
        a prov:Association;
        prov:agent   :steve;
        prov:hadRole :stylist;
        prov:hadPlan :style-guide;
        rdfs:comment "Steve helped Derek conform with the publisher's style guide."@en 
    ];
    prov:qualifiedAssociation [
        a prov:Association;
        prov:agent   :derek;
        prov:hadRole :stylist;
        rdfs:comment "But Derek also did some styling of his own."@en 
    ] .

:derek a prov:Person, prov:Agent .
:steve a prov:Person, prov:Agent .

:illustratonist a prov:Role .
:stylist        a prov:Role .

:style-guide a prov:Plan, prov:Entity .

If this Activity prov:wasAssociatedWith Agent :ag, then it can qualify the Association using prov:qualifiedAssociation [ a prov:Association; prov:agent :ag; :foo :bar ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
qualifies
prov:wasAssociatedWith op
PROV-DM term
Association

Property: prov:qualifiedAttribution op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedAttribution

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/vocab#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

## When the role of the agent is not known or does not matter:

:nationalRegionsList 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :civil_action_group;
.

:civil_action_group a prov:Agent .

## If we want to express the role of the agent:

:nationalRegionsList 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:qualifiedAttribution [
      a prov:Attribution;
      prov:agent :civil_action_group;
      ex:hadRole :owner;
   ]
.

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 ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
qualifies
prov:wasAttributedTo op
PROV-DM term
attribution

Property: prov:qualifiedCommunication op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedCommunication

Communication is the exchange of an entity by two activities, one activity using the entity generated by the other.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:writing-celebrity-gossip 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :journalist;
   prov:wasInformedBy   :voicemail-interception;
   prov:qualifiedCommunication [
      a prov:Communication;
      prov:activity :voicemail-interception;
      rdfs:comment """The journalist was informed by the private 
                      investigator, but we don't know how or what he was told."""@en;
   ];
.

:voicemail-interception 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo :private-investigator;
.

:private-investigator a prov:Agent .
:journalist           a prov:Agent .

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 ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
Communication

Property: prov:qualifiedDelegation op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedDelegation

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/vocab#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:traffic-stop
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :chauffeur, 
                          :traffic-officer-34;
   prov:qualifiedAssociation [
      a prov:Association;
      prov:agent :chauffeur;
      
      # The chauffeur was the one violating traffic rules.
      prov:hadRole :violator; 
   ];
   prov:qualifiedAssociation [
      a prov:Association;
      prov:agent :traffic-officer-34;
      
      # The officer was the one enforcing the traffic rules.
      prov:hadRole :enforcer; 
   ];
.

:chauffeur       
   a prov:Person;
   prov:actedOnBehalfOf :celebrity-in-car;
   prov:qualifiedDelegation [
      a prov:Delegation;
      prov:agent :celebrity-in-car;
      
      # The celebrity employed the chauffeur during the enforcement.
      prov:hadRole :employer; 
      prov:hadActivity  :driving-during-the-year ;
   ];
.

#The chaffeur was employed for a whole year as a driver
:driving-during-the-year   a   prov:Activity ;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :chaffeur;
   prov:qualifiedAssociation [
      a prov:Association;
      prov:hadRole :driver;
   ];
   prov:startedAtTime "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:endedAtTime "2012-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;;
.

:traffic_officer_34 
   a prov:Person;
   prov:actedOnBehalfOf :city-of-Paris;
   prov:qualifiedDelegation [
      a prov:Delegation;
      prov:agent :city-of-Paris;
      
      # The city of Paris employed the officer during the enforcement.
      prov:hadRole :employer; 
      prov:hadActivity      :control-city-traffic ;
   ];
.

:control-city-traffic   a   prov:Activity .

If this Agent prov:actedOnBehalfOf Agent :ag, then it can qualify how with prov:qualifiedResponsibility [ a prov:Responsibility; prov:agent :ag; :foo :bar ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
qualifies
prov:actedOnBehalfOf op
PROV-DM term
delegation

Property: prov:qualifiedDerivation op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedDerivation

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:bar_chart
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasDerivedFrom :aggregatedByRegions;
   prov:qualifiedDerivation [
      a prov:Derivation;
      prov:entity :aggregatedByRegions; 
      
      ## More details about the activity underpinning the derivation        
      prov:hadGeneration :chat_plotting; 
      prov:hadActivity   :chart_creation ;
   ];
.

### The process of creating the chart, from loading the data, to process it, and plot it to end users

:chart_creation
    a    prov:Activity ;
    prov:wasAssociatedWith :derek;
    prov:startedAtTime  "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
    prov:endedAtTime "2011-07-16T03:00:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

#### Now the chart is plotted

:chat_plotting
    a    prov:Generation ;
    prov:atTime    "2011-07-16T03:00:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

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 ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
qualifies
prov:wasDerivedFrom op
PROV-DM term
Derivation

Property: prov:qualifiedEnd op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedEnd

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

### End can be used to qualify wasEndedBy with time and location information

:experiment 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasEndedBy :inconsistentResult;
   prov:qualifiedEnd [
      a prov:End;
      prov:entity       :inconsistentResult;
      prov:atTime       "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
      prov:atLocation   :scienceLab_003;
      prov:hadActivity  :analyse_intermediate_result ; 
   ];
.
   
:inconsistentResult a prov:Entity .

### An implicit process of analysing the intermediate result to confirm its expected consistency

analyse_intermediate_result
   a   prov:Activity ;
   prov:startedAtTime   "2011-07-15T12:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:endedAtTime     "2011-07-16T01:52:02Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
.

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 ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
qualifies
prov:wasEndedBy op
PROV-DM term
End

Property: prov:qualifiedGeneration op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedGeneration

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:bar_chart
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy :illustrating;
   prov:qualifiedGeneration [
      a prov:Generation;
      prov:activity :illustrating;
      rdfs:comment "Ended up with bar chart as line chart looked ugly."@en;
   ];
.

:illustrating a prov:Activity .

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 ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
qualifies
prov:wasGeneratedBy op
PROV-DM term
Generation

Property: prov:qualifiedInfluence op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedInfluence

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix my:   <http://example.com/ontology#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

# Although a domain extension (e.g. ':wasConductedBy') is not defined by PROV-O,
# the relation between a surgery and an agent can still be qualified
# by reusing prov:Influence and one of its three subclasses:
# AgentInfluence, EntityInfluence, and ActivityInfluence
# (depending on the type of the influencing object).

:conductingSurgery_1
   a prov:Activity;

   # This unqualified influence is unknown in PROV, 
   # this would be a subproperty of wasAssociatedWith.
   my:wasConductedBy    :bob;
   prov:wasInfluencedBy :bob;  
   prov:qualifiedInfluence [   
      # Even though PROV systems do not understand :wasConductedBy, 
      a prov:Influence;      # Inferred
      prov:agent   :bob;     # The object of :wasConductedBy
      prov:hadRole :surgeon;
   ];
.

:bob       a prov:Agent .
my:surgeon a prov:Role .

Because prov:qualifiedInfluence is a broad relation, the more specific relations (qualifiedCommunication, qualifiedDelegation, qualifiedEnd, etc.) should be used when applicable.

has domain
has range
has sub-properties
qualifies
prov:wasInfluencedBy op
PROV-DM term
influence

Property: prov:qualifiedInvalidation op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedInvalidation

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/ontology#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:the-Painter 
   a prov:Entity, ex:Painting;
   rdfs:label "Le Peintre"@fr, "The Painter"@en;
   prov:wasAttributedTo <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pablo_Picasso>;

   prov:wasInvalidatedBy :swissair_Flight_111_crash;
   prov:qualifiedInvalidation [
      a prov:Invalidation;
      prov:activity    :swissair_Flight_111_crash;
      prov:atTime      "1998-09-02T01:31:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
      prov:atLocation  <http://purl.org/twc/location/Swissair-Flight-111-crash>;
   ];
. 

:swissair_Flight_111_crash a prov:Activity .
<http://purl.org/twc/location/Swissair-Flight-111-crash> a prov:Location .

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 ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
qualifies
prov:wasInvalidatedBy op
PROV-DM term
Invalidation

Property: prov:qualifiedPrimarySource op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedPrimarySource

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs:    <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:     <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:     <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix prov:    <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:      <http://example.com/vocab#> .
@prefix :        <http://example.com/> .

:temperatureDisplay
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:hadPrimarySource :sensorReading20120510;
   prov:qualifiedPrimarySource [
      a prov:PrimarySource;
      prov:entity        :sensorReading20120510;
      ex:precisionLoss true;
      rdfs:comment """The displayed temperature does not show the full precision 
                      available in the reading.""";
   ];
.

:sensorReading20120510 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasGeneratedBy :temperatureSensor;
.

If this Entity prov:hadPrimarySource Entity :e, then it can qualify how using prov:qualifiedPrimarySource [ a prov:PrimarySource; prov:entity :e; :foo :bar ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
qualifies
prov:hadPrimarySource op
PROV-DM term
primary-source

Property: prov:qualifiedQuotation op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedQuotation

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix my:   <http://example.com/vocab/my#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:bl-dagstuhl
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:value """During the workshop, it became clear to me that the consensus
   based models (which are often graphical in nature) can not only be
   formalized but also be directly connected to these database focused
   formalizations. I just needed to get over the differences in syntax.
   This could imply that we could have nice way to trace provenance across
   systems and through databases and be able to understand the
   mathematical properties of this interconnection.""";
   prov:wasQuotedFrom <http://purl.org/twc/page/thoughts-from-the-dagstuhl-workshop>;
   prov:qualifiedQuotation [
      a prov:Quotation;
      prov:entity <http://purl.org/twc/page/thoughts-from-the-dagstuhl-workshop>;
      my:fromSection 1;
   ];
.

<http://purl.org/twc/page/thoughts-from-the-dagstuhl-workshop>
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasAttributedTo <http://data.semanticweb.org/person/paul-groth>;
.

<http://data.semanticweb.org/person/luc-moreau> a prov:Person, prov:Agent .
<http://data.semanticweb.org/person/paul-groth> a prov:Person, prov:Agent .

If this Entity prov:wasQuotedFrom Entity :e, then it can qualify how using prov:qualifiedQuotation [ a prov:Quotation; prov:entity :e; :foo :bar ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
qualifies
prov:wasQuotedFrom op
PROV-DM term
quotation

Property: prov:qualifiedRevision op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedRevision

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:draft2 
   a prov:Entity;
   prov:wasRevisionOf :draft1;
   prov:qualifiedRevision [
      a prov:Revision;
      prov:entity :draft1
   ];
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :eddie;
.

:draft1 a prov:Entity .
:eddie  a prov:Person, prov:Agent, prov:Entity .

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 ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
qualifies
prov:wasRevisionOf op
PROV-DM term
revision

Property: prov:qualifiedStart op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedStart

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

# Start can be used to qualify wasStartedBy with time and location information.

:consistency_checking
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasStartedBy :updated_data_record;
   prov:qualifiedStart [
      a prov:Start;
      prov:entity       :updated_data_record;
      prov:atTime       "2011-07-06T01:48:36Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
      prov:atLocation   :scienceLab_003;
      prov:hadActivity  :syntax_checking;
   ];
.

:updated_data_record a prov:Entity .

### There is an explicit process of checking the syntax of the updated data record

:syntax_checking
   a   prov:Activity ;
   prov:startedAtTime      "2011-07-06T01:48:36Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:endedAtTime        "2011-07-06T02:12:36Z"^^xsd:dateTime;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith  :syntax_checker ;
.

:syntax_checker   a   prov:SoftwareAgent .

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 ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
qualifies
prov:wasStartedBy op
PROV-DM term
Start

Property: prov:qualifiedUsage op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#qualifiedUsage

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/vocab#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:newsPublication
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:used                    :tsunami_image;
   prov:qualifiedUsage [
      a prov:Usage;
      prov:entity               :tsunami_image;
      ex:hasCopyrightPermission :licensedUse;  
      ex:hasOwner               :reuters;
   ];
.

:tsunami_image a prov:Entity .
:reuters       a prov:Agent .

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 ].

has super-properties
has domain
has range
qualifies
prov:used op
PROV-DM term
Usage

Property: prov:wasInfluencedBy op back to qualified properties

IRI:http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#wasInfluencedBy

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.

Example
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:  <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix owl:  <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix :     <http://example.com/> .

:illustrationActivity 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:used              :aggregatedByRegions;
   prov:wasAssociatedWith :derek;
   prov:wasInformedBy     :aggregationActivity;
.

:illustrationActivity 
   a prov:Activity;
   prov:wasInfluencedBy :aggregatedByRegions, # prov:wasInfluencedBy is a superproperty of
                        :derek,               # many of the direct binary
                        :aggregationActivity; # PROV-O properties.
.

:aggregationActivity a prov:Activity .  
:derek               a prov:Agent .
:aggregatedByRegions a prov:Entity .

This property has multiple RDFS domains to suit multiple OWL Profiles. See PROV-O OWL Profile.

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.

has domain
has range
has sub-properties
can be qualified with
PROV-DM term
influence

A. PROV-O OWL Profile

This section is non-normative.

To encourage widespread adoption, PROV-O's design is intentionally minimal and lightweight. Because the OWL 2 RL profile is aimed at RDF applications that require scalable reasoning without sacrificing too much expressive power [OWL2-PRIMER], it served as a baseline for all axioms included in PROV-O. The PROV-O axioms that do not suit the OWL 2 RL profile are listed in Table 4. All five use an anonymous class union for the domain or range of a property, while OWL 2 RL requires the classes to be explicitly named. Although introducing "placeholder" classes would have suited the OWL 2 RL profile, these additional "abstract" classes would have been irrelevant to the modeling of provenance information, increased the size of PROV-O unnecessarily, and exposed a potential to confuse users. All five axioms listed in the following table use a non-superclass expression in a position that requires a superclass expression and do not conform to the OWL 2 RL Profile.

Table 4: All OWL Axioms in PROV-O that do not conform to the OWL-RL profile.
Non OWL-RL PROV-O Axiom
prov:atLocation rdfs:domain [ owl:unionOf (prov:Activity prov:Agent prov:Entity prov:InstantaneousEvent) ]
prov:wasInfluencedBy rdfs:domain [ owl:unionOf (prov:Activity prov:Agent prov:Entity) ]
prov:wasInfluencedBy rdfs:range [ owl:unionOf (prov:Activity prov:Agent prov:Entity) ]
prov:hadActivity rdfs:domain [ owl:unionOf (prov:Delegation prov:Derivation prov:Start prov:End) ]
prov:hadRole rdfs:domain [ owl:unionOf (prov:Association prov:InstantaneousEvent) ]

To provide guidance for OWL 2 RL environments that ignore the union domain axioms, some property domains or ranges have also been defined with the closest common superclass for the classes in the union, as shown in the following table.

Table 5: Intersecting OWL2 RL compatible domains/ranges
Property Direction Domain/range
prov:atLocation rdfs:domain (implied: owl:Thing)
prov:wasInfluencedBy rdfs:domain / rdfs:range (implied: owl:Thing)
prov:hadActivity rdfs:domain prov:Influence
prov:hadRole rdfs:domain prov:Influence

Multiple RDFS domains and ranges [RDF-SCHEMA] for a property are interpreted as an intersection, and thus the above do not provide any additional information in an OWL 2 DL or OWL 2 Full profile, which also understands the unions. The more general domain should not be interpreted as saying, e.g., "prov:hadActivity can be used with any prov:Influence", but as "Anything using prov:hadActivity is (at least) a prov:Influence".

B. Names of inverse properties

To maximize interoperability, PROV-O intentionally avoids defining too many properties' inverses. In fact, it only defines two (prov:generated and prov:invalidated). When all inverses are defined for all properties, modelers may choose from two logically equivalent properties when making each assertion. Although the two options may be logically equivalent, developers consuming the assertions may need to exert extra effort to handle both (e.g., by either adding an OWL reasoner or writing code and queries to handle both cases). This extra effort can be reduced by preferring one inverse over another.

For example, the first PROV-O statement (below) could just as easily be asserted as the second statement. But if a client queries using prov:wasDerivedFrom when :hadDerivation was used in the assertion, no results will be returned unless OWL reasoning is applied (or the size of the query is doubled).

<http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/>  prov:wasDerivedFrom <http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/> .

   # These two statements are equivalent if prov:wasDerivedFrom is an inverse of :hadDerivation.
   # But extra effort is required to handle both cases (if one is not already using OWL reasoning).
   # We cannot assume that everybody is using OWL reasoning.
   # We do not want people to write more code and query than necessary.

<http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/>     :hadDerivation  <http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/>  .

So, PROV-O avoids this situation by encouraging modelers to use one property instead of its inverse; the preferred property to use is the one defined in the PROV-O ontology. Those asserting and querying for the preferred property avoid the need for OWL reasoning, additional code, and larger queries while maintaining the same level of interoperability.

However, the absence of defined inverses can lead to a different risk to interoperability. Because modelers are free to create their own properties to suit their needs, they may be motivated to assert the inverse of any PROV-O property defined herein.

For example, since PROV-O does not define the inverse of prov:wasDerivedFrom, and if three developers would rather model their assertions in the opposite direction, the following set of assertions might be found in the future web of provenance. These assertions are not in an interoperable form without the use of an OWL reasoner, additional code, or larger queries.

# If PROV-O's properties' inverses are not defined, modelers may be motivated to introduce their own inverse property name.
# The following three statements are equivalent if their predicates are all inverses of prov:wasDerivedFrom.

<http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/>    my:hadDerivation  <http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/>  .
<http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/>  your:ledTo          <http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/>  .
<http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/> their:derivedTo      <http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/>  .

To balance these two interoperability risks, this document reserves the names of the PROV-O inverses. The name of a property's inverse is determined by appending the value of its http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#inverse annotation to the PROV namespace (http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#). Modelers wishing to use inverses of the properties defined by PROV-O should use those reserved by this document.

For example, the same three modelers above that defined my:hadDerivation, your:ledTo, and their:derivedTo should instead look for the http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#inverse annotation on prov:wasDerivedFrom to determine that they should use the property http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#hadDerivation.

@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .

# Each PROV-O property is annotated with the local name of its inverse.

prov:wasDerivedFrom
   a owl:AsymmetricProperty, owl:IrreflexiveProperty, owl:ObjectProperty;
   rdfs:isDefinedBy <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#>;
   prov:inverse     "hadDerivation";
   rdfs:domain  prov:Entity;
   rdfs:range   prov:Entity;
.

# Instead of defining their own, modelers should use the
# recommended inverse local name within the PROV namespace:

<http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/> prov:hadDerivation <http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/>  .

# Following this recommendation avoids a proliferation of inverse definitions, 
# while encouraging the use of one inverse over another.
# This increases interoperability.

The following table lists the recommended inverse names that should be used if a modeler does not want to use the recommended PROV-O property. For convenience, this file lists the resulting inverse properties.

Table 5: Names of inverses
Domain PROV-O Property Recommended inverse name Range
prov:Agent prov:actedOnBehalfOf prov:hadDelegate prov:Agent
prov:ActivityInfluence prov:activity prov:activityOfInfluence prov:Activity
prov:AgentInfluence prov:agent prov:agentOfInfluence prov:Agent
prov:Entity prov:alternateOf prov:alternateOf prov:Entity
union prov:atLocation prov:locationOf prov:Location
prov:EntityInfluence prov:entity prov:entityOfInfluence prov:Entity
prov:Activity prov:generated prov:wasGeneratedBy prov:Entity
prov:Influence prov:hadActivity prov:wasActivityOfInfluence prov:Activity
prov:Derivation prov:hadGeneration prov:generatedAsDerivation prov:Generation
prov:Collection prov:hadMember prov:wasMemberOf prov:Entity
prov:Association prov:hadPlan prov:wasPlanOf prov:Plan
prov:Entity prov:hadPrimarySource prov:wasPrimarySourceOf prov:Entity
union prov:hadRole prov:wasRoleIn prov:Role
prov:Derivation prov:hadUsage prov:wasUsedInDerivation prov:Usage
prov:influenced prov:wasInfluencedBy
prov:Influence prov:influencer prov:hadInfluence union
prov:Activity prov:invalidated prov:wasInvalidatedBy prov:Entity
prov:Activity prov:qualifiedAssociation prov:qualifiedAssociationOf prov:Association
prov:Entity prov:qualifiedAttribution prov:qualifiedAttributionOf prov:Attribution
prov:Activity prov:qualifiedCommunication prov:qualifiedCommunicationOf prov:Communication
prov:Agent prov:qualifiedDelegation prov:qualifiedDelegationOf prov:Delegation
prov:Entity prov:qualifiedDerivation prov:qualifiedDerivationOf prov:Derivation
prov:Activity prov:qualifiedEnd prov:qualifiedEndOf prov:End
prov:Entity prov:qualifiedGeneration prov:qualifiedGenerationOf prov:Generation
union prov:qualifiedInfluence prov:qualifiedInfluenceOf prov:Influence
prov:Entity prov:qualifiedInvalidation prov:qualifiedInvalidationOf prov:Invalidation
prov:Entity prov:qualifiedPrimarySource prov:qualifiedSourceOf prov:PrimarySource
prov:Entity prov:qualifiedQuotation prov:qualifiedQuotationOf prov:Quotation
prov:Entity prov:qualifiedRevision prov:revisedEntity prov:Revision
prov:Activity prov:qualifiedStart prov:qualifiedStartOf prov:Start
prov:Activity prov:qualifiedUsage prov:qualifiedUsingActivity prov:Usage
prov:Entity prov:specializationOf prov:generalizationOf prov:Entity
prov:Activity prov:used prov:wasUsedBy prov:Entity
prov:Activity prov:wasAssociatedWith prov:wasAssociateFor prov:Agent
prov:Entity prov:wasAttributedTo prov:contributed prov:Agent
prov:Entity prov:wasDerivedFrom prov:hadDerivation prov:Entity
prov:Activity prov:wasEndedBy prov:ended prov:Entity
prov:Entity prov:wasGeneratedBy prov:generated prov:Activity
union prov:wasInfluencedBy prov:influenced union
prov:Activity prov:wasInformedBy prov:informed prov:Activity
prov:Entity prov:wasInvalidatedBy prov:invalidated prov:Activity
prov:Entity prov:wasQuotedFrom prov:quotedAs prov:Entity
prov:Entity prov:wasRevisionOf prov:hadRevision prov:Entity
prov:Activity prov:wasStartedBy prov:started prov:Entity

C. Changes since WD-prov-o-20120724

This section is non-normative.

D. Acknowledgements

This section is non-normative.

This document has been produced by the PROV Working Group, and its contents reflect extensive discussion within the Working Group as a whole. The editors extend special thanks to Sandro Hawke (W3C/MIT) and Ivan Herman (W3C/ERCIM), W3C contacts for the PROV Working Group.

The editors acknowledge valuable contributions from the following: Tom Baker, David Booth, Robert Freimuth, Satrajit Ghosh, Ralph Hodgson, Renato Iannella, Jacek Kopecky, James Leigh, Jacco van Ossenbruggen, Alan Ruttenberg, Reza Samavi, and Antoine Zimmermann.

Members of the PROV Working Group at the time of publication of this document were: Ilkay Altintas (Invited expert), Reza B'Far (Oracle Corporation), Khalid Belhajjame (University of Manchester), James Cheney (University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics), Sam Coppens (IBBT), David Corsar (University of Aberdeen, Computing Science), Stephen Cresswell (The National Archives), Tom De Nies (IBBT), Helena Deus (DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland), Simon Dobson (Invited expert), Martin Doerr (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas(FORTH)), Kai Eckert (Invited expert), Jean-Pierre EVAIN (European Broadcasting Union, EBU-UER), James Frew (Invited expert), Irini Fundulaki (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas(FORTH)), Daniel Garijo (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Yolanda Gil (Invited expert), Ryan Golden (Oracle Corporation), Paul Groth (Vrije Universiteit), Olaf Hartig (Invited expert), David Hau (National Cancer Institute, NCI), Sandro Hawke (W3C/MIT), Jörn Hees (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Gmbh), Ivan Herman, (W3C/ERCIM), Ralph Hodgson (TopQuadrant), Hook Hua (Invited expert), Trung Dong Huynh (University of Southampton), Graham Klyne (University of Oxford), Michael Lang (Revelytix, Inc.), Timothy Lebo (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), James McCusker (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Deborah McGuinness (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Simon Miles (Invited expert), Paolo Missier (School of Computing Science, Newcastle university), Luc Moreau (University of Southampton), James Myers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Vinh Nguyen (Wright State University), Edoardo Pignotti (University of Aberdeen, Computing Science), Paulo da Silva Pinheiro (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Carl Reed (Open Geospatial Consortium), Adam Retter (Invited Expert), Christine Runnegar (Invited expert), Satya Sahoo (Invited expert), David Schaengold (Revelytix, Inc.), Daniel Schutzer (FSTC, Financial Services Technology Consortium), Yogesh Simmhan (Invited expert), Stian Soiland-Reyes (University of Manchester), Eric Stephan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Linda Stewart (The National Archives), Ed Summers (Library of Congress), Maria Theodoridou (Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas(FORTH)), Ted Thibodeau (OpenLink Software Inc.), Curt Tilmes (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), Craig Trim (IBM Corporation), Stephan Zednik (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Jun Zhao (University of Oxford), Yuting Zhao (University of Aberdeen, Computing Science).

The editors also thank the developers of the tools that helped create the PROV-O ontology and portions of this document. Without these great tools, developing PROV-O would have been much less of a pleasure.

E. References

E.1 Normative references

[IRI]
M. Duerst, M. Suignard. Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRI). January 2005. Internet RFC 3987. URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt
[OWL2-OVERVIEW]
W3C OWL Working Group. OWL 2 Web Ontology Language: Overview. 27 October 2009. W3C Recommendation. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-overview-20091027/
[PROV-CONSTRAINTS]
James Cheney; Paolo Missier; Luc Moreau; eds. Constraints of the PROV Data Model. 11 December 2012, W3C Candidate Recommendation. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-constraints-20121211/
[PROV-DM]
Luc Moreau; Paolo Missier; eds. PROV-DM: The PROV Data Model. 11 December 2012, W3C Candidate Recommendation. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-dm-20121211/
[PROV-N]
Luc Moreau; Paolo Missier; eds. PROV-N: The Provenance Notation. 11 December 2012, W3C Candidate Recommendation. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-n-20121211/
[RDF-CONCEPTS]
Graham Klyne; Jeremy J. Carroll. Resource Description Framework (RDF): Concepts and Abstract Syntax. 10 February 2004. W3C Recommendation. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-concepts-20040210
[RFC2119]
S. Bradner. Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels. March 1997. Internet RFC 2119. URL: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
[XMLSCHEMA11-2]
Henry S. Thompson; et al. W3C XML Schema Definition Language (XSD) 1.1 Part 2: Datatypes. 5 April 2012. W3C Recommendation URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-xmlschema11-2-20120405/

E.2 Informative references

[LD-Patterns-QR]
Leigh Dodds; Ian Davis. Qualified Relation. modified 31 May 2012, accessed 01 June 2012 URL: http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/qualified-relation.html
[OWL2-PRIMER]
Pascal Hitzler; Markus Krötzsch; Bijan Parsia; Peter F. Patel-Schneider; Sebastian Rudolph. OWL 2 Web Ontology Language:Primer. 27 October 2009. W3C Recommendation. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/REC-owl2-primer-20091027/
[PROV-AQ]
Graham Klyne; Paul Groth; eds. Provenance Access and Query. 19 June 2012, Working Draft. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-aq-20120619/
[PROV-OVERVIEW]
Paul Groth; Luc Moreau; eds. PROV-OVERVIEW: An Overview of the PROV Family of Documents. 11 December 2012, Working Draft. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-overview-20121211/
[PROV-PRIMER]
Yolanda Gil; Simon Miles; eds. PROV Model Primer. 11 December 2012, Working Draft. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-primer-20121211/
[PROV-XML]
Hook Hua; Curt Tilmes; Stephan Zednik; eds. PROV-XML: The PROV XML Schema. 11 December 2012, Working Draft. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-xml-20121211/
[RDF-SCHEMA]
Dan Brickley; Ramanathan V. Guha. RDF Vocabulary Description Language 1.0: RDF Schema. 10 February 2004. W3C Recommendation. URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-schema-20040210
[TRIG]
Chris Bizer; Richard Cyganiak. The TriG Syntax. modified 30 July 2007, accessed 05 November 2012 URL: http://wifo5-03.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/bizer/trig/