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+ <h1 class="title" id="title">PROV Model Primer</h1>
+
+ <h2 id="w3c-working-draft-11-december-2012"><abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> Working Draft 11 December 2012</h2>
+ <dl>
+
+ <dt>This version:</dt>
+ <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-primer-20121211/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-primer-20121211/</a></dd>
+ <dt>Latest published version:</dt>
+ <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-primer/">http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-primer/</a></dd>
+
+
+ <dt>Latest editor's draft:</dt>
+ <dd><a href="http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/primer/Primer.html">http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/primer/Primer.html</a></dd>
+
+
+
+
+
+ <dt>Previous version:</dt>
+ <dd><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-primer-20120724/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-primer-20120724/</a></dd>
+
+
+ <dt>Editors:</dt>
+ <dd><a href="http://www.isi.edu/~gil/">Yolanda Gil</a>, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, US</dd>
<dd><a href="http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/simonm">Simon Miles</a>, King's College London, UK</dd>
-<dt>Authors:</dt><dd><span><a href="http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Khalid_Belhajjame">Khalid Belhajjame</a></span>, University of Manchester</dd>
+
+
+ <dt>Authors:</dt>
+ <dd><span><a href="http://semanticweb.org/wiki/Khalid_Belhajjame">Khalid Belhajjame</a></span>, University of Manchester</dd>
<dd><span>Helena Deus</span>, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), NUI Galway</dd>
<dd><span><a href="http://www.oeg-upm.net/index.php/en/phdstudents/28-dgarijo">Daniel Garijo</a></span>, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid</dd>
<dd><span>Graham Klyne</span>, University of Oxford</dd>
<dd><span><a href="http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/Paolo.Missier">Paolo Missier</a></span>, Newcastle University</dd>
<dd><span><a href="http://soiland-reyes.com/stian/">Stian Soiland-Reyes</a></span>, University of Manchester</dd>
<dd><span><a href="http://tw.rpi.edu/web/person/StephanZednik">Stephan Zednik</a></span>, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</dd>
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- <div id="abstract" class="introductory section"><h2>Abstract</h2>
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+ <section id="abstract" class="introductory"><h2>Abstract</h2>
<p>
This document provides an intuitive introduction and guide to the
PROV specification for provenance on the Web. PROV is a core data model for
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- evolve in the first Public Working Draft of the Primer.</p -->
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- </div><div id="sotd" class="introductory section"><h2>Status of This Document</h2><p><em>This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of current <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/"><acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> technical reports index</a> at http://www.w3.org/TR/.</em></p>
+ </section><section id="sotd" class="introductory"><h2>Status of This Document</h2>
+
+
+
+ <p>
+ <em>This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other
+ documents may supersede this document. A list of current <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> publications and the latest revision
+ of this technical report can be found in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/"><abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> technical reports
+ index</a> at http://www.w3.org/TR/.</em>
+ </p>
+
<h4 id="prov-family-of-documents">PROV Family of Documents</h4>
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:
<ul>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-overview-20121211/">PROV-OVERVIEW</a> (Note), an overview of the PROV family of documents [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-OVERVIEW">PROV-OVERVIEW</a></cite>];</li>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-primer-20121211/">PROV-PRIMER</a> (Note), a primer for the PROV data model [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-PRIMER">PROV-PRIMER</a></cite>];</li>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-o-20121211/">PROV-O</a> (Recommendation), the PROV ontology, an OWL2 ontology allowing the mapping of PROV to RDF [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-O">PROV-O</a></cite>];</li>
+<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-overview-20121211/">PROV-OVERVIEW</a> (Note), an overview of the PROV family of documents [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-OVERVIEW">PROV-OVERVIEW</a></cite>];</li>
+<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-primer-20121211/">PROV-PRIMER</a> (Note), a primer for the PROV data model [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-PRIMER">PROV-PRIMER</a></cite>];</li>
+<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-o-20121211/">PROV-O</a> (Recommendation), the PROV ontology, an OWL2 ontology allowing the mapping of PROV to RDF [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-O">PROV-O</a></cite>];</li>
<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-dm-20121211/">PROV-DM</a> (Recommendation), the PROV data model for provenance (this document);</li>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-n-20121211/">PROV-N</a> (Recommendation), a notation for provenance aimed at human consumption [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-N">PROV-N</a></cite>];</li>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-constraints-20121211/">PROV-CONSTRAINTS</a> (Recommendation), a set of constraints applying to the PROV data model [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-CONSTRAINTS">PROV-CONSTRAINTS</a></cite>];</li>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-aq-20120619/">PROV-AQ</a> (Note), the mechanisms for accessing and querying provenance [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-AQ">PROV-AQ</a></cite>]; </li>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-xml-20121211/">PROV-XML</a> (Note), an XML schema for the PROV data model [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-XML">PROV-XML</a></cite>].</li>
+<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-n-20121211/">PROV-N</a> (Recommendation), a notation for provenance aimed at human consumption [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-N">PROV-N</a></cite>];</li>
+<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-constraints-20121211/">PROV-CONSTRAINTS</a> (Recommendation), a set of constraints applying to the PROV data model [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-CONSTRAINTS">PROV-CONSTRAINTS</a></cite>];</li>
+<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-aq-20120619/">PROV-AQ</a> (Note), the mechanisms for accessing and querying provenance [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-AQ">PROV-AQ</a></cite>]; </li>
+<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-xml-20121211/">PROV-XML</a> (Note), an XML schema for the PROV data model [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-XML">PROV-XML</a></cite>].</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="how-to-read-the-prov-family-of-documentation">How to read the PROV Family of Documentation</h4>
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<li>Readers seeking to implement other PROV serializations
should focus on PROV-DM and PROV-CONSTRAINTS. PROV-O and PROV-N offer examples of mapping to RDF and text, respectively.</li>
</ul>
-<p>This document was published by the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/">Provenance Working Group</a> as a Working Draft. If you wish to make comments regarding this document, please send them to <a href="mailto:public-prov-comments@w3.org">public-prov-comments@w3.org</a> (<a href="mailto:public-prov-comments-request@w3.org?subject=subscribe">subscribe</a>, <a href="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-prov-comments/">archives</a>). All feedback is welcome.</p><p>Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> 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.</p><p>This document was produced by a group operating under the <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/">5 February 2004 <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> Patent Policy</a>. The group does not expect this document to become a <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> Recommendation. <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> maintains a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/46974/status" rel="disclosure">public list of any patent disclosures</a> 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 <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#def-essential">Essential Claim(s)</a> must disclose the information in accordance with <a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy-20040205/#sec-Disclosure">section 6 of the <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> Patent Policy</a>.</p></div><div id="toc" class="section"><h2 class="introductory">Table of Contents</h2><ul class="toc"><li class="tocline"><a href="#introduction" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">1. </span>Introduction</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#intuitive-overview-of-prov" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2. </span>Intuitive overview of PROV</a><ul class="toc"><li class="tocline"><a href="#entities" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.1 </span>Entities</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#activities" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.2 </span>Activities</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#usage-and-generation" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.3 </span>Usage and Generation</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#agents-and-responsibility" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.4 </span>Agents and Responsibility</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#roles" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.5 </span>Roles</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#derivation-and-revision" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.6 </span>Derivation and Revision</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#plans" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.7 </span>Plans</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#time" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.8 </span>Time</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#alternate-entities-and-specialization" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.9 </span>Alternate Entities and Specialization</a></li></ul></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#examples-of-key-concepts-in-prov" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3. </span>Examples of Key Concepts in PROV</a><ul class="toc"><li class="tocline"><a href="#entities-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.1 </span>Entities</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#activities-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.2 </span>Activities</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#usage-and-generation-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.3 </span>Usage and Generation</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#agents-and-responsibility-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.4 </span>Agents and Responsibility</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#roles-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.5 </span>Roles</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#derivation-and-revision-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.6 </span>Derivation and Revision</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#plans-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.7 </span>Plans</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#time-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.8 </span>Time</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#alternate-entities-and-specialization-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.9 </span>Alternate Entities and Specialization</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#complete-prov-data" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.10 </span>Complete PROV data</a></li></ul></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#acknowledgements" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">A. </span>Acknowledgements</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#changes-since-third-public-working-draft" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">B. </span>Changes Since Third Public Working Draft</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#references" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">C. </span>References</a><ul class="toc"><li class="tocline"><a href="#normative-references" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">C.1 </span>Normative references</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#informative-references" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">C.2 </span>Informative references</a></li></ul></li></ul></div>
+
+ <p>
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+
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+
+
+</section><section id="toc"><h2 class="introductory">Table of Contents</h2><ul class="toc"><li class="tocline"><a href="#introduction" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">1. </span>Introduction</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#intuitive-overview-of-prov" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2. </span>Intuitive overview of PROV</a><ul class="toc"><li class="tocline"><a href="#entities" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.1 </span>Entities</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#activities" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.2 </span>Activities</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#usage-and-generation" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.3 </span>Usage and Generation</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#agents-and-responsibility" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.4 </span>Agents and Responsibility</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#roles" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.5 </span>Roles</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#derivation-and-revision" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.6 </span>Derivation and Revision</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#plans" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.7 </span>Plans</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#time" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.8 </span>Time</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#alternate-entities-and-specialization" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">2.9 </span>Alternate Entities and Specialization</a></li></ul></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#examples-of-key-concepts-in-prov" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3. </span>Examples of Key Concepts in PROV</a><ul class="toc"><li class="tocline"><a href="#entities-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.1 </span>Entities</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#activities-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.2 </span>Activities</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#usage-and-generation-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.3 </span>Usage and Generation</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#agents-and-responsibility-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.4 </span>Agents and Responsibility</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#roles-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.5 </span>Roles</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#derivation-and-revision-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.6 </span>Derivation and Revision</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#plans-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.7 </span>Plans</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#time-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.8 </span>Time</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#alternate-entities-and-specialization-1" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.9 </span>Alternate Entities and Specialization</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#complete-prov-data" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">3.10 </span>Complete PROV data</a></li></ul></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#acknowledgements" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">A. </span>Acknowledgements</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#changes-since-third-public-working-draft" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">B. </span>Changes Since Third Public Working Draft</a></li><li class="tocline"><a href="#references" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">C. </span>References</a><ul class="toc"><li class="tocline"><a href="#informative-references" class="tocxref"><span class="secno">C.1 </span>Informative references</a></li></ul></li></ul></section>
- <div id="introduction" class="section">
+ <section id="introduction">
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+<!--OddPage-->
<h2><span class="secno">1. </span>Introduction</h2>
<p>
This primer document provides an accessible introduction to the PROV
@@ -136,7 +360,7 @@
For general background on provenance, a
comprehensive overview of requirements, use cases, prior research, and proposed
vocabularies for provenance are available from the
- Final Report of the <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> Provenance Incubator Group [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROVENANCE-XG">PROVENANCE-XG</a></cite>].
+ Final Report of the <abbr title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</abbr> Provenance Incubator Group [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROVENANCE-XG">PROVENANCE-XG</a></cite>].
That document contains three general scenarios
that may help identify the provenance aspects of planned applications and
help plan the design of a provenance system.
@@ -147,32 +371,32 @@
</p>
<ul>
<li>An intuitive explanation of how PROV models provenance. A detailed description of
- all the concepts and relations in the PROV Data Model is provided in [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-DM">PROV-DM</a></cite>].</li>
+ all the concepts and relations in the PROV Data Model is provided in [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-DM">PROV-DM</a></cite>].</li>
<li>A simple self-contained example that illustrates how to produce and use PROV assertions, highlighting how
to combine PROV with other popular vocabularies such as FOAF and Dublin Core. A description
- of the formal PROV ontology (PROV-O) can be found in [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-O">PROV-O</a></cite>].</li>
+ of the formal PROV ontology (PROV-O) can be found in [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-O">PROV-O</a></cite>].</li>
<li>Example snippets using a notation of PROV designed for human
- consumption (PROV-N). Details of this notation can be found at [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-N">PROV-N</a></cite>].</li>
+ consumption (PROV-N). Details of this notation can be found at [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-N">PROV-N</a></cite>].</li>
</ul>
<p>There are additional reference documents for PROV that are not covered in this
- primer, including the PROV Access and Query aspects of the specification [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-AQ">PROV-AQ</a></cite>],
- the constraints on the PROV data model [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-CONSTRAINTS">PROV-CONSTRAINTS</a></cite>],
- a formal semantics of the PROV data model [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-SEM">PROV-SEM</a></cite>], and the PROV XML notation
- [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-XML">PROV-XML</a></cite>]. </p>
+ primer, including the PROV Access and Query aspects of the specification [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-AQ">PROV-AQ</a></cite>],
+ the constraints on the PROV data model [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-CONSTRAINTS">PROV-CONSTRAINTS</a></cite>],
+ a formal semantics of the PROV data model [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-SEM">PROV-SEM</a></cite>], and the PROV XML notation
+ [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-XML">PROV-XML</a></cite>]. </p>
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="intuitive-overview-of-prov" class="section">
+ <section id="intuitive-overview-of-prov">
-<!-- OddPage -->
+<!--OddPage-->
<h2><span class="secno">2. </span>Intuitive overview of PROV</h2>
<p>
This section provides an intuitive explanation of the main concepts in PROV.
As with the rest of this document, it should be treated as a starting point for
- understanding the model. The PROV data model document [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-DM">PROV-DM</a></cite>]
- provides precise definitions and constraints [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-CONSTRAINTS">PROV-CONSTRAINTS</a></cite>] to be used.
+ understanding the model. The PROV data model document [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-DM">PROV-DM</a></cite>]
+ provides precise definitions and constraints [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-CONSTRAINTS">PROV-CONSTRAINTS</a></cite>] to be used.
</p>
<p>
The following diagram provides a high level overview of the structure of PROV records,
@@ -185,7 +409,7 @@
<img src="images/key-concepts.png" alt="PROV key concepts overview" />
</div>
- <div id="entities" class="section">
+ <section id="entities">
<h3><span class="secno">2.1 </span>Entities</h3>
<p>
@@ -202,9 +426,9 @@
and D as an evolving document,
are three distinct entities for which we may describe provenance.
</p>
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="activities" class="section">
+ <section id="activities">
<h3><span class="secno">2.2 </span>Activities</h3>
<p>
@@ -217,9 +441,9 @@
by a translation from the first version of the document in another language,
then this translation is an activity.
</p>
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="usage-and-generation" class="section">
+ <section id="usage-and-generation">
<h3><span class="secno">2.3 </span>Usage and Generation</h3>
<p>
Activities <i>generate</i> new entities.
@@ -232,9 +456,9 @@
part-way through.
Likewise, usage does not always occur at the beginning of an activity.
</p>
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="agents-and-responsibility" class="section">
+ <section id="agents-and-responsibility">
<h3><span class="secno">2.4 </span>Agents and Responsibility</h3>
<p>
An <i>agent</i> takes a role in an activity such
@@ -267,9 +491,9 @@
the agent must be declared explicitly both as an agent and as an entity.
</p>
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="roles" class="section">
+ <section id="roles">
<h3><span class="secno">2.5 </span>Roles</h3>
<p>
A <i>role</i> is a description of the function or the part that an entity
@@ -283,9 +507,9 @@
"addition to be made to the document", to generate a further entity in the role of "edited document".
Roles are application specific, so PROV does not define any particular roles.
</p>
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="derivation-and-revision" class="section">
+ <section id="derivation-and-revision">
<h3><span class="secno">2.6 </span>Derivation and Revision</h3>
<p>
When one entity's existence, content, characteristics and so on are
@@ -305,18 +529,18 @@
Another specialized kind of derivation is to say that one entity, commonly
a document, <i>quotes</i> from another.
</p>
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="plans" class="section">
+ <section id="plans">
<h3><span class="secno">2.7 </span>Plans</h3>
<p>
Activities may follow pre-defined procedures, such as recipes, tutorials, instructions, or workflows.
PROV refers to these, in general, as <i>plans</i>, and allows the description that a plan was followed, by agents,
in executing an activity.
</p>
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="time" class="section">
+ <section id="time">
<h3><span class="secno">2.8 </span>Time</h3>
<p>
Time is often a critical aspect of provenance.
@@ -326,9 +550,9 @@
version of a document was created (generation time), or when a document was
edited (start and end of the editing activity).
</p>
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="alternate-entities-and-specialization" class="section">
+ <section id="alternate-entities-and-specialization">
<h3><span class="secno">2.9 </span>Alternate Entities and Specialization</h3>
<p>
There is often more than one way to describe something in a record of
@@ -376,7 +600,7 @@
in this case.
</p>
-<!--
+<!--
<h3>Alternate Entities and Specialization</h3>
<p>
Entities are defined in a flexible way in PROV, allowing for different
@@ -411,15 +635,15 @@
with a unique identifier even though it is specified as different alternates
throughout the provenance records.
</p>
- -->
-
- </div>
+ -->
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="examples-of-key-concepts-in-prov" class="section">
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="examples-of-key-concepts-in-prov">
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+<!--OddPage-->
<h2><span class="secno">3. </span>Examples of Key Concepts in PROV</h2>
<p>
@@ -435,9 +659,9 @@
The samples can be displayed in one or more of the following formats.
</p>
<ul>
- <li>[<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-O">PROV-O</a></cite>] RDF triples, expressed using the [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-TURTLE">TURTLE</a></cite>] notation.</li>
- <li>[<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-N">PROV-N</a></cite>] expressions.</li>
- <li>[<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-XML">PROV-XML</a></cite>] fragments.</li>
+ <li>[<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-O">PROV-O</a></cite>] RDF triples, expressed using the [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-TURTLE">TURTLE</a></cite>] notation.</li>
+ <li>[<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-N">PROV-N</a></cite>] expressions.</li>
+ <li>[<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-XML">PROV-XML</a></cite>] fragments.</li>
</ul>
<p>
Select the formats to display using the buttons below. Note that if all formats
@@ -478,7 +702,7 @@
</form>
- <div id="entities-1" class="section">
+ <section id="entities-1">
<h3><span class="secno">3.1 </span>Entities</h3>
<p>
@@ -557,9 +781,9 @@
are denoted using ovals, as shown below.
</p>
<img src="images/entities.png" alt="Visualization of the example entities" />
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="activities-1" class="section">
+ <section id="activities-1">
<h3><span class="secno">3.2 </span>Activities</h3>
<p>
@@ -671,9 +895,9 @@
In visualizations of the PROV data, activities are depicted as rectangles, as below.
</p>
<img src="images/activities.png" alt="Visualization of the example activities" />
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="usage-and-generation-1" class="section">
+ <section id="usage-and-generation-1">
<h3><span class="secno">3.3 </span>Usage and Generation</h3>
<p>
@@ -715,7 +939,7 @@
wasGeneratedBy(ex:composition, ex:compose, -)
</pre>
<p>Note that the - argument in the examples above denote unspecified optional
- information. See the [<cite><a class="bibref" rel="biblioentry" href="#bib-PROV-N">PROV-N</a></cite>] specification for the details of what arguments
+ information. See the [<cite><a class="bibref" href="#bib-PROV-N">PROV-N</a></cite>] specification for the details of what arguments
may be expressed in each PROV-N statement.
</p>
</div>
@@ -796,9 +1020,9 @@
entities and activities. The arrows point from the future to the past.
</p>
<img src="images/use-generate.png" alt="Connection of the entities and activities by use and generation links" />
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="agents-and-responsibility-1" class="section">
+ <section id="agents-and-responsibility-1">
<h3><span class="secno">3.4 </span>Agents and Responsibility</h3>
<p>
@@ -1004,9 +1228,9 @@
We can extend our graphical depiction to show the agents, association and attribution links.
</p>
<img src="images/agents.png" alt="Agents added to provenance graph and linked to entities and activities" />
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="roles-1" class="section">
+ <section id="roles-1">
<h3><span class="secno">3.5 </span>Roles</h3>
<p>
@@ -1230,9 +1454,9 @@
Depicting the above visually, we have the following.
</p>
<img src="images/roles.png" alt="Provenance graph annotated with roles played by entities and agents" />
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="derivation-and-revision-1" class="section">
+ <section id="derivation-and-revision-1">
<h3><span class="secno">3.6 </span>Derivation and Revision</h3>
<p>
@@ -1385,9 +1609,9 @@
with arrows in our visualization.
</p>
<img src="images/derivation.png" alt="Derivation and revision links between entities" />
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="plans-1" class="section">
+ <section id="plans-1">
<h3><span class="secno">3.7 </span>Plans</h3>
<p>
@@ -1510,9 +1734,9 @@
an agent, and so, in our visualization, connect to the link between them.
</p>
<img src="images/plans.png" alt="Annotaion of example provenance graph with plan followed" />
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="time-1" class="section">
+ <section id="time-1">
<h3><span class="secno">3.8 </span>Time</h3>
<p>
@@ -1620,9 +1844,9 @@
links between activities and entities or agents.
</p>
<img src="images/time.png" alt="Annotation of provenance graph with example timestamps" />
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="alternate-entities-and-specialization-1" class="section">
+ <section id="alternate-entities-and-specialization-1">
<h3><span class="secno">3.9 </span>Alternate Entities and Specialization</h3>
<p>
@@ -1785,9 +2009,9 @@
as links between them.
</p>
<img src="images/specialization.png" alt="Specialization and alternate links between entities" />
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div id="complete-prov-data" class="section">
+ <section id="complete-prov-data">
<h3><span class="secno">3.10 </span>Complete PROV data</h3>
<p>
The full set of examples shown above are available in <a href="primer-turtle-examples.txt">PROV-O Turtle format</a>
@@ -1795,21 +2019,21 @@
We visualize the whole example below.
</p>
<img src="images/everything.png" alt="Provenance graph for whole example" />
- </div>
- </div>
+ </section>
+ </section>
- <div class="appendix section" id="acknowledgements">
+ <section class="appendix" id="acknowledgements">
-<!-- OddPage -->
+<!--OddPage-->
<h2><span class="secno">A. </span>Acknowledgements</h2>
<p>
The Provenance Working Group members.
</p>
- </div>
+ </section>
- <div class="appendix section" id="changes-since-third-public-working-draft">
+ <section class="appendix" id="changes-since-third-public-working-draft">
-<!-- OddPage -->
+<!--OddPage-->
<h2><span class="secno">B. </span>Changes Since Third Public Working Draft</h2>
<ul>
<li>Corrected mailing list address for public comments.</li>
@@ -1825,12 +2049,12 @@
<li>Changed example figures to follow PROV style guidelines.</li>
<li>Fixed minor typos.</li>
</ul>
- </div>
+ </section>
-<div id="references" class="appendix section">
-<!-- OddPage -->
-<h2><span class="secno">C. </span>References</h2><div id="normative-references" class="section"><h3><span class="secno">C.1 </span>Normative references</h3><p>No normative references.</p></div><div id="informative-references" class="section"><h3><span class="secno">C.2 </span>Informative references</h3><dl class="bibliography"><dt id="bib-PROV-AQ">[PROV-AQ]</dt><dd>Graham Klyne; Paul Groth; eds. <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-aq-20120619/"><cite>Provenance Access and Query</cite></a>. 19 June 2012, Working Draft. URL: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-aq-20120619/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-aq-20120619/</a>
+<section id="references" class="appendix">
+<!--OddPage-->
+<h2><span class="secno">C. </span>References</h2><section id="informative-references"><h3><span class="secno">C.1 </span>Informative references</h3><dl class="bibliography"><dt id="bib-PROV-AQ">[PROV-AQ]</dt><dd>Graham Klyne; Paul Groth; eds. <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-aq-20120619/"><cite>Provenance Access and Query</cite></a>. 19 June 2012, Working Draft. URL: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-aq-20120619/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-aq-20120619/</a>
</dd><dt id="bib-PROV-CONSTRAINTS">[PROV-CONSTRAINTS]</dt><dd>James Cheney; Paolo Missier; Luc Moreau; eds. <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-constraints-20121211/"><cite>Constraints of the PROV Data Model</cite></a>. 11 December 2012, W3C Candidate Recommendation. URL: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-constraints-20121211/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-constraints-20121211/</a>
</dd><dt id="bib-PROV-DM">[PROV-DM]</dt><dd>Luc Moreau; Paolo Missier; eds. <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-dm-20121211/"><cite>PROV-DM: The PROV Data Model</cite></a>. 11 December 2012, W3C Candidate Recommendation. URL: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-dm-20121211/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-dm-20121211/</a>
</dd><dt id="bib-PROV-N">[PROV-N]</dt><dd>Luc Moreau; Paolo Missier; eds. <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-n-20121211/"><cite>PROV-N: The Provenance Notation</cite></a>. 11 December 2012, W3C Candidate Recommendation. URL: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-n-20121211/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-n-20121211/</a>
@@ -1841,4 +2065,4 @@
</dd><dt id="bib-PROV-XML">[PROV-XML]</dt><dd>Hook Hua; Curt Tilmes; Stephan Zednik; eds. <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-xml-20121211/"><cite>PROV-XML: The PROV XML Schema</cite></a>. 11 December 2012, Working Draft. URL: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-xml-20121211/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-prov-xml-20121211/</a>
</dd><dt id="bib-PROVENANCE-XG">[PROVENANCE-XG]</dt><dd>Yolanda Gil, James Cheney, Paul Groth, Olaf Hartig, Simon Miles, Luc Moreau, Paulo Pinheiro da Silva <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/XGR-prov/"><cite>Provenance XG Final Report</cite></a>. 8 December 2010. URL: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/XGR-prov/">http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/XGR-prov/</a>
</dd><dt id="bib-TURTLE">[TURTLE]</dt><dd>Eric Prud'hommeaux, Gavin Carothers <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-turtle-20110809/"><cite>Turtle: Terse RDF Triple Language</cite></a>. 9 August 2011. W3C Working Draft. URL: <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-turtle-20110809/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-turtle-20110809/</a>
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