The Open Provenance Specification

Welcome to the Open Provenance Specification Page. Here we present a family of specification documents that describe in detail the data model for provenance. On the menu below you can access each of the documents.

Documents
The overview of the family of specification documents
A glossary of terms used in the specification documents
The data model for process documentation
The provenance recording protocol
The provenance query protocol
The process documentation query protocol
An x-path profile for the provenance query protocol
A basic transformation profile for documentation style
A profile for non-repudiable process documentation
A WS-addressing profile for distributed process documentation
A SOAP binding for provenance p-headers


A Best Practice Methodology for Designing Provenance Aware Applications

Specification Publications

The BibTex file for these references

Contributors to the specification effort

• Steve Munroe, University of Southampton
• Paul Groth, University of Southampton
• Sheng Jiang, University of Southampton
• Simon Miles, University of Southampton
• Victor Tan, University of Southampton
• Luc Moreau, University of Southampton
• John Ibbotson, IBM
• Alexis Biller, IBM
• Javier Vazquez-Salceda, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  
  
  

-- SteveMunroe - 23 Mar 2006
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