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<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. The PROV Family of Documents defines a model, corresponding serializations and other supporting definitions to enable the inter-operable interchange of provenance information in heterogeneous environments such as the Web. This document provides an overview this family of documents.
+to form assessments about its quality, reliability or trustworthiness. The PROV Family of Documents defines a model, corresponding serializations and other supporting definitions to enable the inter-operable interchange of provenance information in heterogeneous environments such as the Web. This document provides an overview of this family of documents.
</section>
@@ -405,7 +405,9 @@
<li> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-links-20130430/">PROV-LINKS</a> (Note) introduces a mechanism to link across bundles . [[PROV-LINKS]]</li>
</ul>
+<h4>Implementations Encouraged</h4>
<p>
+The Provenance Working Group encourages implementation of the specifications overviewed in this document.
Although work on this document by the Provenance Working Group is complete,
errors may be recorded in the <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/errata.html">errata</a> or and these may be addressed in future revisions.
</p>
@@ -417,14 +419,14 @@
<section id="introduction">
<h2>Introduction</h2>
This document provides a non-normative overview of the PROV Family of Documents and provides a roadmap to using them.
-Provenance is information about entities, activities, and people involved in producing a piece of data or thing, which can be used
+<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/#dfn-provenance">Provenance</a> 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. The goal of PROV is to enable the wide publication and interchange of provenance on the Web and other information systems. PROV enables one to represent and interchange provenance information using widely available formats such as RDF and XML. In addition, it provides definitions for accessing provenance information, validating it, and mapping to Dublin Core. When referring to PROV, we are referring to the entire family of documents.
<p>
-The design of PROV stems from the recommendations of the Provenance Incubator Group ([[PROV-XG]]) which performed an extensive information gathering process including use case cataloging, requirements acquisition and literature survey. From this process, <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/XGR-prov-20101214/#Broad_Recommendations">8 broad recommendations were defined</a>. PROV supports all 8 recommendations either through a complete definition or through extensibility points.
+The design of PROV stems from the recommendations of the Provenance Incubator Group ([[PROV-XG]]) which performed an extensive information gathering process including use case cataloging, requirements elicitation and a literature survey. From this process, <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/prov/XGR-prov-20101214/#Broad_Recommendations">8 broad recommendations were defined</a>. PROV support seven of the eight recommendations. Recommendation #2 was out of scope for standardization of activity of the working group, but it is believed that it can be supported by PROV extensibility points.
</p>
<p>
-Below is the organization of PROV. At its core is a conceptual data model, which defines a common vocabulary used to describe provenance. This is instantiated by various serializations. These serializations are what are used by implementations to interchange provenance. To help developers and users create valid provenance, a set of constraints are defined, which can be used to create provenance validators. Finally, to further support the interchange of provenance, additional specifications are provided for protocols to locate and access provenance, connect sets of provenance descriptions, and define how to interoperate with the widely used Dublin Core vocabulary.
+Below is the organization of PROV. At its core is a conceptual data model, which defines a common vocabulary used to describe provenance. This is instantiated by various serializations. These serializations are used by implementations to interchange provenance. To help developers and users express valid provenance, a set of constraints are defined, which can be used to implement provenance validators. Finally, to further support the interchange of provenance, additional specifications are provided for protocols to locate and access provenance, connect sets of provenance descriptions, and define how to interoperate with the widely used Dublin Core vocabulary.
</p>
<div>
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<ol>
<li> Users - this audience wants to understand PROV and use applications that support PROV.
<li> Developers - this audience wants to develop or build applications that create and consume provenance using PROV.
-<li> Advanced - this audience aims to create validators, new PROV serializations, or other advanced provenance systems.
+<li> Advanced - this audience aims to create validators, new PROV serializations, or other advanced provenance-based systems.
</ol>
-In the table below, we also denote whether the document is a W3C Recommendation or a Working Group Note.
+In the table below, we also denote whether the document is a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr#RecsW3C">W3C Recommendation</a> or a <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr#WGNote">Working Group Note.</a>
<table class="open-data-table">
<tr><th>Part</th><th>Audience</th><th>Type</th><th>Document</th></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;">1</td><td style="background: #DFF">Users</td><td>Note</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-primer-20130312/">PROV-PRIMER</a> is the entry point to PROV offering an introduction to the provenance data model. This is where you should start and for many may be the only document needed.</td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;">2</td><td style="background: #CDD">Developers</td><td>Rec</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-prov-o-20130312/">PROV-O</a> defines a light-weight OWL2 ontology for the provenance data model. This is intended for the Linked Data and Semantic Web community. </td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;">3</td><td style="background: #CDD">Developers</td><td>Note</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-xml-20130312/">PROV-XML</a> defines an XML schema for the provenance data model. This is intended for developers who need a native XML serialization of the PROV data model.</td></tr>
-<tr><td style = "text-align: center;">4</td><td style="background: #FDD">Advanced</td><td>Rec</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-prov-dm-20130312/">PROV-DM</a> defines a conceptual data model for provenance including UML diagrams. PROV-O and PROV-XML are serializations of this conceptual model.</td></tr>
+<tr><td style = "text-align: center;">4</td><td style="background: #FDD">Advanced</td><td>Rec</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-prov-dm-20130312/">PROV-DM</a> defines a conceptual data model for provenance including UML diagrams. PROV-O, PROV-XML and PROV-N are serializations of this conceptual model.</td></tr>
<tr><td style = "text-align: center;">5</td><td style="background: #FDD">Advanced</td><td>Rec</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-prov-n-20130312/">PROV-N</a> defines a human-readable notation for the provenance model. This is used to provide examples within the conceptual model as well as used in the definition of PROV-CONSTRAINTS. </td></tr>
-<tr><td style = "text-align: center;">6</td> <td style="background: #FDD">Advanced</td><td>Rec</td><td> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-prov-constraints-20130312/">PROV-CONSTRAINTS</a> defines a set constraints on the PROV data model that specifies a notion of valid provenance. It is specifically aimed at the implementors of validators. </td></tr>
+<tr><td style = "text-align: center;">6</td> <td style="background: #FDD">Advanced</td><td>Rec</td><td> <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-prov-constraints-20130312/">PROV-CONSTRAINTS</a> defines a set of constraints on the PROV data model that specifies a notion of valid provenance. It is specifically aimed at the implementors of validators. </td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;">7</td><td style="background: #CDD">Developers</td><td>Note</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-aq-20130312/">PROV-AQ</a> defines how to use Web-based mechanisms to locate and retrieve provenance information. </td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;">8</td><td style="background: #CDD">Developers</td><td>Note</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-dc-20130312/">PROV-DC</a> defines a mapping between Dublin Core and PROV-O. </td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;">9</td><td style="background: #CDD">Developers</td><td>Note</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-dc-20130312/">PROV-DICTIONARY</a> defines constructs for expressing the provenance of dictionary style data structures. </td></tr>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;">10</td><td style="background: #FDD">Advanced</td><td>Note</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-sem-20130312/">PROV-SEM</a> defines a declarative specification in terms of first-order logic of the PROV data model.</li></td></tr>
-<tr><td style = "text-align: center;">11</td><td style="background: #FDD">Advanced</td><td>Note</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-links-20130312/">PROV-LINKS</a> Defines extensions to PROV to enable linking provenance information across containers for provenance.</td></tr>
+<tr><td style = "text-align: center;">11</td><td style="background: #FDD">Advanced</td><td>Note</td><td><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-links-20130312/">PROV-LINKS</a> defines extensions to PROV to enable linking provenance information across bundles of provenance description.</td></tr>
</table>