2. Index
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A
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.
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.
activity
The prov:activity property in PROV-O 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. In PROV-XML, prov:activity is used as an element name for the complex type, prov:Activity.
ActivityInfluence
ActivityInfluence 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.
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.
agent
The prov:agent property, in PROV-O, 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. In PROV-XML, prov:agent is used as an element name for the complex type, prov:Agent
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.
Alternate
Two alternate entities present aspects of the same thing. These aspects may be the same or different, and the alternate entities may or may not overlap in time.
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.
asInBundle
prov:asInBundle is used to specify which bundle the general entity of a prov:mentionOf property is described.
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.
Attribution
Attribution is the ascribing of an entity to an agent.
B
Bundle
A bundle is a named set of provenance descriptions, and is itself an entity, so allowing provenance of provenance to be expressed.
C
Collection / collection
A collection is an entity that provides a structure to some constituents that must themselves be entities. These constituents are said to be member of the collections.
Communication
Communication is the exchange of some unspecified entity by two activities, one activity using some entity generated by the other.
D
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.
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.
derivedByInsertionFrom
The dictionary was derived from the other by insertion.
derivedByRemovalFrom
The dictionary was derived from the other by removal.
describesService
describesService relates a generic provenance query service resource (type prov:ServiceDescription) to a specific query service description (e.g. a prov:DirectQueryService or a sd:Service).
Dictionary
A dictionary is an entity that provides a structure to some constituents, which are themselves entities. These constituents are said to be members of the dictionary.
dictionary
The property used by a prov:Insertion and prov:Removal to cite the prov:Dictionary that was prov:derivedByInsertionFrom or prov:derivedByRemovalFrom another dictionary.
DictionaryMembership
The members of a dictionary are specified by listing key-entity pairs inside a prov:DictionaryMembership element.
DirectQueryService
Type for a direct HTTP query service description. Mainly for use in RDF provenance query service descriptions, to distinguish direct HTTP query service descriptions from other query service descriptions.
E
EmptyCollection / emptyCollection
An empty collection is a collection without members.
EmptyDictionary / emptyDictionary
An empty dictionary is a dictionary that has no members.
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.
Entity
An entity is a physical, digital, conceptual, or other kind of thing with some fixed aspects; entities may be real or imaginary.
entity
In PROV-O, 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. In PROV-XML, prov:entity is used as an element name for the complex type prov:Entity.
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.
G
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.
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.
H
hadDictionaryMember
Describes the key-entity pair that was member of a prov:Dictionary. A dictionary can have multiple members.
hadMember
Membership is the belonging of an entity to a collection.
has_anchor
Indicates a target-URI for an resource, used by an associated provenance record.
has_provenance
Indicates a provenance-URI for a resource; the resource identified by this property presents a provenance record about its subject or anchor resource.
has_query_service
Indicates a provenance query service that can access provenance related to its subject or anchor resource.
I
id
In PROV-XML, the xml-attribute used to identify an instances of a prov-"type" or prov-"relation".
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.
insertedKeyEntityPair
An object property to refer to the prov:KeyEntityPair inserted into a prov:Dictionary.
Insertion
Insertion is a derivation that describes the transformation of a dictionary into another, by insertion of one or more key-entity pairs.
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.
internalElement
In PROV-XML, used for extension of the schema.
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.
K
key
A key in a key-entity pair.
KeyEntityPair/keyEntityPair
A key-entity pair.
L
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.
M
Membership
Membership is the belonging of an entity to a collection.
Mention
The mention of an entity in a bundle (containing a description of this entity) is another entity that is a specialization of the former and that presents at least the bundle as a further additional aspect.
mentionOf
prov:mentionOf is used to specialize an entity as described in another bundle. It is to be used in conjuction with prov:asInBundle.
N
O
Organization
An organization is a social or legal institution such as a company, society, etc.
other
In PROV-XML, the prov:other xml-element provides a place to include non-PROV xml-elements inside a prov:document or prov:bundleContent.
P
pairEntity
The entity of a prov:KeyEntityPair, which is an element of a prov:Dictionary.
pairKey
The key of a prov:KeyEntityPair, which is an element of a prov:Dictionary.
Person
Person agents are people.
pingback
Relates a resource to a provenance pingback service that may receive additional provenance links about the resource.
Plan/plan
A plan is an entity that represents a set of actions or steps intended by one or more agents to achieve some goals.
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.
provenanceUriTemplate
Indicates a URI template string for constructing provenance-URIs
Q
qualifiedInsertion
prov:qualifiedInsertion shows the details of an insertion, in particular the inserted key-entity pairs.
qualifiedRemoval
prov:qualifiedRemoval shows the details of a removal, in particular the removed keys.
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.
R
ref
In PROV-XML, a xml-attribute that denotes a reference-by-id to an instance of a prov-"type" or prov-"relation".
Removal
Removal is a derivation that describes the transformation of a dictionary into another, by removing one or more keys.
removedKey
The key removed in a Removal.
Revision
A revision is a derivation for which the resulting entity is a revised version of some original.
S
ServiceDescription
Type for a generic provenance query service. Mainly for use in RDF provenance query service descriptions, to facilitate discovery in linked data environments.
SoftwareAgent
A software agent is running software.
Specialization
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.
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.
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.
T
U
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.
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.
V
value
A value is a constant such as a string, number, time, qualified name, IRI, and encoded binary data, whose interpretation is outside the scope of PROV.
W
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.
wasAttributedTo
Attribution is the ascribing of an entity to an agent.
wasDerivedFrom
A derivation is a transformation of an entity into another, an update of an entity resulting in a new one, or the construction of a new entity based on a pre-existing entity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
wasRevisionOf
A revision is a derivation for which the resulting entity is a revised version of some original.
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.