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PROV, the Provenance standard, is a family of specifications released in 2013 by the Provenance Working Group, as a contribution to the Semantic Web suite of technologies at the World Wide Web Consortium. The specifications define a data model along with a number of serializations for representing aspects of provenance. The term provenance, as understood in these specifications, refers to 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-Overview [1]). The specifications include a combination of W3C Recommendation and Note documents. Recommendation documents include:
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Groth P, Moreau L. PROV-Overview: an overview of the PROV Family of Documents [Internet]. 2012. Available from: http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/
Moreau L, Missier P, Belhajjame K, B’Far R, Cheney J, Coppens S, et al. PROV-DM: the PROV Data Model [Internet]. In: Moreau L, Missier P, editors. 2012. Available from: http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/
Cheney J, Missier P, Moreau L. Constraints of the provenance data model [Internet]. 2012. Available from: http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-constraints/
Lebo T, Sahoo S, McGuinness D, Belhajjame K, Cheney J, Corsar D, et al. PROV-O: the PROV ontology [Internet]. In: Lebo T, Sahoo S, McGuinness D, editors. 2012. Available from: http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/
Moreau L, Missier P, Cheney J, Soiland-Reyes S. PROV-N: the provenance notation [Internet]. In: Moreau L, Missier P, editors. 2012. Available from: http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-n/
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Missier, P. (2018). Provenance Standards. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_80749
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