First reports of the W3C Provenance Incubator Group

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Ivan Herman

The W3C Provenance Incubator Group is announcing its first report: “Requirements for Provenance on the Web”. The report describes the group’s consensus on the requirements to support provenance in a variety of web contexts, applications, and use. The report is based on the following documents produced by the group:

The report will serve as a basis to organize a state-of-the-art survey on provenance. The group welcomes comments and feedback on this report from the Web community.
More information about the W3C Provenance Group, including its current activities and future plans, is publicly available on its wiki site.

About Ivan Herman

Ivan Herman is the Semantic Web Activity Lead at W3C. He graduated as a mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Ivan joined the W3C team as Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when he was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position.

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