Fwd: Re: Transition request: FPWD of 4 Note track documents for the Provenance WG

FYI,
Luc


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: Transition request: FPWD of 4 Note track documents for the 
Provenance WG
Date: 	Tue, 4 Dec 2012 17:49:04 +0100
From: 	Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
To: 	Luc Moreau <l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
CC: 	<chairs@w3.org>, <w3t-comm@w3.org>, W3C Chairs of Prov WG 
<team-prov-chairs@w3.org>



Looks good.  Transitions approved.
-- 
Thomas Roessler, W3C <tlr@w3.org <mailto:tlr@w3.org>> (@roessler 
<http://twitter.com/roessler>)



On 2012-12-04, at 17:44 +0100, Luc Moreau <l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk 
<mailto:l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>> wrote:

>
> Dear Thomas,
>
> This is a transition request from the Provenance WG to publish four 
> FPWD Note track documents:
>
> *(1) prov-overview*
>
> Staged draft: 
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/overview/WD-prov-overview-20121211/Overview.html
>
> Short name: prov-overview
>
> Group resolution to publish: 
> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/meeting/2012-11-29#resolution_2
>
> Planned publication date: 11 December 2012
>
> Abstract: 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. The PROV Family of Documents defines a model, 
> corresponding serializations and other supporting defintions to enable 
> the inter-operable interchange of provenance information in 
> heterogeneous environments such as the Web. This document provides an 
> overview this family of documents.
>
> SOTD: 
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/overview/WD-prov-overview-20121211/Overview.html#sotd
>
> *(2) prov-xml: The PROV XML Schema*
>
> Staged draft: 
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/xml/releases/WD-prov-xml-20121211/Overview.html
>
> Short name: prov-xml
>
> Group resolution to publish: 
> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/meeting/2012-11-09#resolution_3
>
> Planned publication date: 11 December 2012
>
> Abstract: 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.
>
> The PROV Document Overview describes the overall state of PROV, and 
> should be read before other PROV documents.
>
> SOTD: 
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/xml/releases/WD-prov-xml-20121211/Overview.html#sotd
>
> *(3) prov-dc: Dublin Core to PROV Mapping*
>
> Staged draft: 
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/dc-note/releases/WD-prov-dc-20121211/Overview.html
>
> Short name: prov-dc
>
> Group resolution to publish: 
> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/meeting/2012-11-29#resolution_4
>
> Planned publication date: 11 December 2012
>
> Abstract: "This document provides a mapping between the PROV-O OWL2 
> ontology [PROV-O] and the Dublin Core Terms Vocabulary [DCTERMS]. The 
> PROV Document Overview [PROV-OVERVIEW] describes the overall state of 
> PROV, and should be read before other PROV documents."
>
> SOTD: 
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/dc-note/releases/WD-prov-dc-20121211/Overview.html#sotd
>
> *(4) prov-links: Linking Across Provenance Bundles*
>
> Staged draft: 
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/links/releases/WD-prov-links-20121211/Overview.html
>
> Short name: prov-links
>
> Group resolution to publish: 
> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/meeting/2012-11-29#resolution_3
>
> Abstract: 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. Bundles, defined in [PROV-DM] as sets of provenance 
> descriptions, were introduced in PROV as the mechanism by which 
> provenance of provenance can be expressed. Bundles, whose validity is 
> established independently of each other [PROV-CONSTRAINTS], are 
> essentially independent of each other, acting as islands of provenance 
> descriptions.
>
> In applications where provenance is created by multiple parties over 
> time, it is useful for provenance descriptions created by one party to 
> link to provenance descriptions created by another party. Such a 
> mechanism would allow the "stitching" of provenance descriptions 
> together. Given that provenance descriptions are expected to be 
> contained in bundles, this would require a capability to link entity 
> descriptions across bundles. To address this requirement, this 
> document introduces a relation Mention allowing an entity description 
> to be linked to another entity description occurring in another bundle.
>
> The PROV Document Overview describes the overall state of PROV, and 
> should be read before other PROV documents.
>
> SOTD: 
> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/links/releases/WD-prov-links-20121211/Overview.html#sotd
>
> -- 
> Professor Luc Moreau
> Electronics and Computer Science   tel:   +44 23 8059 4487
> University of Southampton          fax:   +44 23 8059 2865
> Southampton SO17 1BJ               email:l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk
> United Kingdomhttp://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm
>