The W3C PROV family of specifications for modelling provenance metadata. Missier, P., Belhajjame, K., & Cheney, J. In Procs. EDBT'13 (Tutorial), Genova, Italy, 2013. ACM.
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Provenance, a form of structured metadata designed to record the origin or source of information, can be instrumental in deciding whether information is to be trusted, how it can be integrated with other diverse information sources, and how to establish attribution of information to authors through- out its history. The PROV set of speci cations, produced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is designed to pro- mote the publication of provenance information on the Web, and o ers a basis for interoperability across diverse prove- nance management systems. The PROV provenance model is deliberately generic and domain-agnostic, but extension mechanisms are available and can be exploited for modelling speci c domains. This tutorial provides an account of these speci cations. Starting from intuitive and informal exam- ples that present idiomatic provenance patterns, it progres- sively introduces the relational model of provenance along with the constraints model for validation of provenance doc- uments, and concludes with example applications that show the extension points in use.

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