Open Provenance Model

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for technical discussion about the OPM, see Open Provenance Model Discussion

Contents 1 Data Model 1.1 Concepts 1.2 Properties 2 Vocabulary 3 Resources

Data Model

the following content was adapted from OPM 1.1 specification

Concepts

• Artifact. Immutable piece of state, which may have a physical embodiment in a physical object, or a digital representation in a computer

system.

• Process. Action or series of actions performed on or caused by artifacts, and resulting in new artifacts.
• Agent. Contextual entity acting as a catalyst of a process, enabling, facilitating, controlling, or affecting its execution.

Properties

object properties

• used (Role) ( Process-> Artifact )
• was generated by (Role) (Artifact ->Process)
• was controlled by (Role) (Process -> Agent)
• was triggered by (Process -> Process)
• was derived from (Artifact-> Artifact)

annotation properties (for an OPM entity)

• type (Entity -> URI): the subtype
• pname (Entity -> URI): a persistent name
• label (Entity-> String): human-readable version
• value (Artifact -> String): serialization of an application value, in e.g. XML, JSON, and ntriples.
• encoding (Artifact -> String): how a serialization was constructed
• profile (OPM graph -> URI): a profile that is supported by that graph

Vocabulary

OPM OWL Ontology

Resources

overview: http://openprovenance.org/examples/opm-overview-for-xg-prov.pdf

1. OPM Core specification v1.1: http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18332/

2. The Open Provenance Vision: chapter 5 of http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/18176/

3. A presentation on OPM: http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/lavm/talks/iam09.pdf

4. Current XML schema: http://github.com/lucmoreau/OpenProvenanceModel/blob/master/opm/src/main/resources/opm.1_1.xsd

5. Current OWL ontology: http://github.com/lucmoreau/OpenProvenanceModel/blob/master/elmo/src/main/resources/opm.owl

6. Formalisation of OPM (with Natalia Kwasnikowska and Jan Van den Bussche): http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk/17282/

7. Simon Miles' early proposal to map Dublin Core to OPM: http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/provenance-challenge-ipaw-info/2009-June/000124.html

8. Early proposal for collections in OPM (with Paolo Missier, Paul Groth, Simon Miles) http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pipermail/provenance-challenge-ipaw-info/2009-June/000120.html