ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) · 2013 · 16 citations · 0 references
ComputingInformation TechnologyData ManagementFormal MethodsKnowledge RepresentationData ModelingData ProvenanceSchema DesignXml DatabasesData Provenance ModelingProvenance Data ModelsProvenance Interchange StandardsProvenance ModelsProvenance RepresentationProvenance Schema DesignXml Schema DesignXml Schema Languages
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. It defines a concepts for expressing provenance information enabling interchange. This document introduces an XML schema for the PROV data model (PROV-DM), allowing instances of the PROV data model to be serialized in XML.