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Capturing the Provenance of Internet of Things Deployments

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Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes (IPAW 2018)

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Abstract

This paper introduces the System Deployment Provenance Ontology and an associated set of provenance templates. These can be used to describe Internet of Things deployments.

David Corsar’s email address for correspondance is d.corsar1@rgu.ac.uk.

The research described here is supported by the RCUK Digital Economy programme award made to the University of Aberdeen; award reference: EP/N028074/1.

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    http://www.trustlens.org.

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    Defined by the SSN namespace http://www.w3.org/ns/ssn/, abbreviated to “ssn”.

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    Defined by the SOSA namespace http://www.w3.org/ns/sosa/, abbreviated to “sosa”.

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    Namespace http://www.w3id.org/sdpo/, abbreviated to “sdpo”.

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    Namespace http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#, abbreviated to “prov”.

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    SDPO views a ssn:Deployment as an activity during which, for example, a sensor performs the act(s) of making one (or more) observations.

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    https://provenance.ecs.soton.ac.uk/prov-template/.

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    https://lucmoreau.github.io/ProvToolbox/.

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    The templates are available at http://www.github.com/TrustLens/sdpo.

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    Note :electricSensor1 is not invalidated, as it may subsequently be used by a repair or recycling activity.

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    Namespace http://purl.org/net/p-plan#, abbreviated to “p-plan”.

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    SDPO also defines the steps sdpo:Sample and sdpo:Actuate corresponding to the sosa:Sampling and sosa:Actuation acts defined by SSNO.

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Corsar, D., Markovic, M., Edwards, P. (2018). Capturing the Provenance of Internet of Things Deployments. In: Belhajjame, K., Gehani, A., Alper, P. (eds) Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes. IPAW 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11017. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98379-0_18

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