Provenance Incubator Group Report Published

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Ivan Herman

W3C’s Provenance Incubator Group has published its final report. The report gives a thorough overview on the concept of Provenance, on its usage (describing several usage scenarios), requirements, as well as the available provenance vocabularies. The document also includes a proposed roadmap to address the identified gaps analyzed elsewhere in the report.

This report is not the only output of the Incubator group. The group’s wiki page contains a number of additional information and reports that are of interest. Among these are:

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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