--- a/mention/prov-mention.html Wed Nov 21 12:49:20 2012 +0000
+++ b/mention/prov-mention.html Wed Nov 21 14:19:21 2012 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>
<html><head>
- <title>PROV-Mention</title>
+ <title>prov-links: linking across provenance bundles</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<!--
=== NOTA BENE ===
@@ -410,11 +410,11 @@
specStatus: "ED",
// the specification's short name, as in http://www.w3.org/TR/short-name/
- shortName: "prov-mention",
+ shortName: "prov-links",
// if your specification has a subtitle that goes below the main
// formal title, define it here
- subtitle : "A single document for prov-mention related material",
+ //subtitle : "A single document for prov-mention related material",
// if you wish the publication date to be other than today, set this
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@
// if the specification's copyright date is a range of years, specify
// the start date here:
- copyrightStart: "2011",
+ //copyrightStart: "2011",
// if there is a previously published draft, uncomment this and set its YYYY-MM-DD date
// and its maturity status
@@ -483,55 +483,35 @@
<section id="abstract">
<p>
Provenance is information about entities, activities, and people
-involved in producing a piece of data or thing, which can be used
- to form assessments about its quality, reliability or trustworthiness.
-PROV-DM is the conceptual data model that forms a basis for the W3C
-provenance (PROV) family of specifications.
-PROV-DM distinguishes core structures, forming the essence of provenance information, from
-extended structures catering for more specific uses of provenance.
-PROV-DM is organized in six components, respectively dealing with:
-(1) entities and activities, and the time at which they were created, used, or ended;
-(2) derivations of entities from entities;
-(3) agents bearing responsibility for entities that were generated and activities that happened;
-(4) a notion of bundle, a mechanism to support provenance of provenance;
-(5) properties to link entities that refer to the same thing; and,
-(6) collections forming a logical structure for its members.
+involved in producing a piece of data or thing, which can be used to
+form assessments about its quality, reliability or trustworthiness.
+Bundles, defined sets of provenance descriptions, are a mechanism by
+which provenanceof provenance can be expressed.</p>
+
+<p>
+In applications where provenance is created by multiple parties over time, it is useful for provenance descriptions of one party to link to provenance descriptions of another party. To address this issue, this document introduces a relation allowing a description entity to be linked to another entity described in antoher bundle.
</p>
-<p>This document introduces the provenance concepts found in
-PROV and defines PROV-DM types and
-relations. The PROV data model is domain-agnostic, but is equipped with
-extensibility points allowing domain-specific information to be included. </p>
-
-<p>Two further documents complete the specification of PROV-DM.
-First, a companion document specifies the set of constraints that
-provenance should follow. Second,
-a separate document describes a provenance notation for expressing
-instances of provenance for human consumption; this notation is used in examples in
-this document. </p>
</section>
<section id="sotd">
-<h4>Last Call</h4>
-<p>This is the fifth public release of the PROV-DM document.
-This is a Last Call Working Draft. The design is not expected to change significantly, going forward, and now is the key time for external review.</p>
-
-
-
+<h4>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 [[PROV-OVERVIEW]];</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 [[PROV-PRIMER]];</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 [[!PROV-O]];</li>
+<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-prov-dm-20121211/">PROV-DM</a> (Recommendation), the PROV data model for provenance [[!PROV-DM]];</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 [[!PROV-N]];</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 [[!PROV-CONSTRAINTS]];</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 [[PROV-AQ]]; </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 [[PROV-XML]];</li>
+<li> Prov-mention (this document).</li>
-<h4>PROV Family of Specifications</h4>
-This document is part of the PROV family of specifications, a set of specifications defining various aspects that are necessary to achieve the vision of inter-operable
-interchange of provenance information in heterogeneous environments such as the Web. The specifications are:
-<ul>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/">PROV-DM</a>, the PROV data model for provenance (this document);</li>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-constraints/">PROV-CONSTRAINTS</a>, a set of constraints applying to the PROV data model [[PROV-CONSTRAINTS]];</li>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-n/">PROV-N</a>, a notation for provenance aimed at human consumption [[PROV-N]];</li>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/">PROV-O</a>, the PROV ontology, an OWL2 ontology allowing the mapping of PROV to RDF [[PROV-O]];</li>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-aq/">PROV-AQ</a>, the mechanisms for accessing and querying provenance [[PROV-AQ]]; </li>
-<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-primer/">PROV-PRIMER</a>, a primer for the PROV data model [[PROV-PRIMER]].</li>
</ul>
-<h4>How to read the PROV Family of Specifications</h4>
+<h4>How to read the PROV Family of Documentation</h4>
<ul>
<li>The primer is the entry point to PROV offering an introduction to the provenance model.</li>
<li>The Linked Data and Semantic Web community should focus on PROV-O defining PROV classes and properties specified in an OWL2 ontology. For further details, PROV-DM and PROV-CONSTRAINTS specify the constraints applicable to the data model, and its interpretation. </li>