Revised description of recommended provenance formats per WG discussion. Added reference to HTTP 1.1 spec.
--- a/paq/prov-aq.html Mon Mar 25 11:59:41 2013 +0000
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<script src="../model/provbib.js" class="remove"></script>
- <!-- Define bibliography specific for PROV-AQ: @@TODO merge all additional bibliographies for PROV documents? -->
+
<script class='remove'>
var addExtraReferences = function() {
for (var k in extraReferences)
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- Most mechanisms described in this note are independent of the provenance format used, and may be used to access provenance in any available format. For interoperable provenance publication, use of PROV-O represented in a standardized RDF format is recommended. Where alternative formats are available, selection may be made by content negotiation.
+ Most mechanisms described in this note are independent of the provenance format used, and may be used to access provenance in any available format. For interoperable provenance publication, use of PROV represented in any of its specified formats is recommended. Where alternative formats are available, selection may be made by HTTP content negotiation [[HTTP11]].
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For ease of reference, the main body of this document contains some links to external web pages. Such links are distinguished from internal references thus: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/Main_Page" class="externalRef">W3C Provenance Working Group</a>.
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<h2>Provenance query services</h2>
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- This section describes a simple HTTP query protocol for accessing provenance records, and also a mechanism for locating a SPARQL service endpoint [[SPARQL-SD]]. The HTTP protocol specifies HTTP operations for retrieving provenance records from a provenance query service, following the approach of the SPARQL Graph Store HTTP Protocol [[SPARQL-HTTP]].
+ This section describes a simple HTTP query protocol for accessing provenance records, and also a mechanism for locating a SPARQL service endpoint [[SPARQL-SD]]. The HTTP query protocol specifies HTTP operations [[HTTP11]] for retrieving provenance records from a provenance query service, following the approach of the SPARQL Graph Store HTTP Protocol [[SPARQL-HTTP]].
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The introduction of query services is motivated by the following possible considerations:
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The direct HTTP query service may return provenance in any available format.
- For interoperable provenance publication, use of the PROV-O vocabulary [[PROV-O]] represented in a standardized RDF format is recommended. Where alternative formats are available, selection may be made by content negotiation, using <code>Accept:</code> header fields in the HTTP request.
+ For interoperable provenance publication, use of PROV represented in any of its specified formats is recommended. Where alternative formats are available, selection may be made by content negotiation, using <code>Accept:</code> header fields in the HTTP request.
Services MUST identify the <code>Content-Type</code> of the provenance returned.
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