Provenance now a W3C REC

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 definitions to enable the inter-operable interchange of
provenance information in heterogeneous environments such as the Web. This
document provides an overview of this family of documents.
PROV Family of Documents This document is part of the PROV family of
documents, a set of documents defining various aspects that are necessary
to achieve the vision of inter-operable interchange of provenance
information in heterogeneous environments such as the Web. These documents
are listed below.

   - PROV-OVERVIEW
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/>(Note), an
overview of the PROV family of documents (this document);
   - PROV-PRIMER
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-primer-20130430/>(Note), a primer
for the PROV data model [
   PROV-PRIMER<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/#bib-PROV-PRIMER>
   ];
   - PROV-O <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-o-20130430/>(Recommendation),
the PROV ontology, an OWL2 ontology allowing the mapping
   of the PROV data model to RDF
[PROV-O<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/#bib-PROV-O>
   ];
   - PROV-DM <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-dm-20130430/>(Recommendation),
the PROV data model for provenance [
   PROV-DM<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/#bib-PROV-DM>
   ];
   - PROV-N <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-n-20130430/>(Recommendation),
a notation for provenance aimed at human consumption [
   PROV-N<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/#bib-PROV-N>
   ];
   - PROV-CONSTRAINTS<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-prov-constraints-20130430/>(Recommendation),
a set of constraints applying to the PROV data model [
   PROV-CONSTRAINTS<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/#bib-PROV-CONSTRAINTS>
   ];
   - PROV-XML <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-xml-20130430/> (Note),
   an XML schema for the PROV data model
[PROV-XML<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/#bib-PROV-XML>
   ];
   - PROV-AQ <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-aq-20130430/> (Note),
   mechanisms for accessing and querying provenance
[PROV-AQ<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/#bib-PROV-AQ>];

   - PROV-DICTIONARY<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dictionary-20130430/>(Note)
introduces a specific type of collection, consisting of key-entity
   pairs [PROV-DICTIONARY<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/#bib-PROV-DICTIONARY>
   ];
   - PROV-DC <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-dc-20130430/> (Note)
   provides a mapping between PROV-O and Dublin Core Terms
[PROV-DC<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/#bib-PROV-DC>
   ];
   - PROV-SEM <http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-sem-20130430/> (Note), a
   declarative specification in terms of first-order logic of the PROV data
   model [PROV-SEM<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/#bib-PROV-SEM>
   ];
   - PROV-LINKS
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-links-20130430/>(Note) introduces
a mechanism to link across bundles [
   PROV-LINKS<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/NOTE-prov-overview-20130430/#bib-PROV-LINKS>
   ].

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