[Esip-preserve] W3C Provenance First Public Working Draft published

[Curt Tilmes]

From: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau at ecs.soton.ac.uk>

The PROV-DM first public working draft is now published at the following 
address
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-prov-dm-20111018/

Please, disseminate this document to the wider community, and invite 
people to comment
on the report.

You will also note that 'provenance' is now one of the toplevel 
categories appearing
at http://www.w3.org/TR/.

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http://www.w3.org/blog/SW/2011/10/18/first-draft-of-a-provenance-data-model-published/

"The W3C Provenance Working Group has published the First Public Working 
Draft of The PROV Data Model and Abstract Syntax Notation. PROV-DM is a 
core data model for provenance for building representations of the 
entities, people and processes involved in producing a piece of data or 
thing in the world. PROV-DM is domain-agnostic but with well-defined 
extensibility points allowing further domain-specific and 
application-specific extensions to be defined. It is accompanied by 
PROV-ASN, a technology-independent abstract syntax notation, which 
allows serializations of PROV-DM instances to be created for human 
consumption, which facilitates its mapping to concrete syntax, and which 
is used as the basis for a formal semantics. Two other documents, to be 
released shortly, are: 1) a normative serialization of PROV-DM in RDF, 
specified by means of a mapping to the OWL2 Web Ontology Language; 2) 
the mechanisms for accessing and querying provenance."