Provenance Working Group

Presentation - An Overview of W3C PROV

Working Group Finalized

This Working Group has now completed its work.

• The final specifications are listed below.
• For more information on PROV, related tools, etc, consult the PROV page of the Semantic Web Wiki.
• If you want to discuss or ask questions on PROV please use the Public PROV Comments mailing list

Specifications

• Want to comment or ask questions on PROV? use public-prov-comments@w3.org

News & Community

News

• Our hashtag: #prov
• Outreach Information - A catalog of our blog posts, tutorials, and other information on PROV from around the web (and BibTex to cite each document)
• Semantic Web Activity Blog - news from related groups at the W3C

Community Support

• Why Use PROV
• Implementations using PROV
• Connection Task Force Report

A few pointers

• FAQ
• Example Catalog
• Layout conventions for PROV graphs
• ProvNamespaceManagement - how we manage the PROV namespace
• WorkingDrafts - Editor's drafts
• Mercurial repository

Inputs

The Working Group is based on an extensive review and roadmap developed by a prior incubator group.

The interested readers are invited to read the following documents:

• Final Report in particular Provenance in the Web Architecture and the Provenance Concepts in the recommendations section.
• Provenance Vocabulary Mappings

Members

See list of current participants, (or with contact info), wiki user pages, nicknames

Meetings

Schedule / Agendas / Minutes

(Meeting minutes from the prov-o team are here)

• 2013-05-02 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-04-25 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-04-18 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-04-11 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-04-04 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-03-28 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-03-21 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-03-14 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-03-07 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-02-28 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-02-21 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-02-14 - cancelled due to lack of chair
• 2013-02-07 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-01-31 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-01-24 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-01-17 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-01-10 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2013-01-03 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-12-13 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-12-06 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-11-29 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-11-22 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-11-08, 09 Face to Face Meeting 4 Minutes day1 Minutes day2
• 2012-11-01 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-10-25 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-10-18 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-10-11 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-10-04 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-09-27 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-09-20 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-09-13 - Agenda, Minutes
• 2012-09-06 - Agenda, Minutes

earlier meetings

W3C Working Group Resources

• Art of Consensus (guide to working at W3C) (W3C member confidential)
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Process Document
• All W3C Groups (W3C member confidential)
• CommonScribe (scribe tool) manual

Patent Policy

This Working Group operates under the W3C Patent Policy (5 February 2004 Version). To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this policy, on a Royalty-Free basis.

For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Status Page.

Staff

Email the chairs and staff contacts at team-prov-chairs@w3.org.

• Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, Co-Chair
• Paul Groth, VU University Amsterdam, Co-Chair
• Ivan Herman, W3C, Staff Contact
• Sandro Hawke, W3C, Alternate Staff Contact