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

2006

1. Paul Groth, Victor Tan, Steve Munroe, Sheng Jiang, Simon Miles, and Luc Moreau. Process Documentation Recording Protocol. Technical report, University of Southampton, 2006. [WWW ]
2. Simon Miles, Luc Moreau, Paul Groth, Victor Tan, Steve Munroe, and Sheng Jiang. Provenance Query Protocol. Technical report, University of Southampton, 2006. [WWW ]
3. Simon Miles, Luc Moreau, Paul Groth, Victor Tan, Steve Munroe, and Sheng Jiang. XPath Profile for the Provenance Query Protocol. Technical report, University of Southampton, 2006. [WWW ]
4. Simon Miles, Steve Munroe, Paul Groth, Sheng Jiang, Victor Tan, John Ibbotson, and Luc Moreau. Process Documentation Query Protocol. Technical report, University of Southampton, 2006. [WWW ]
5. Steve Munroe, Paul Groth, Sheng Jiang, Simon Miles, Victor Tan, and Luc Moreau. Data model for Process Documentation. Technical report, University of Southampton, 2006. [WWW ]
6. Steve Munroe, Simon Miles, Victor Tan, Paul Groth, Sheng Jiang, Luc Moreau, and John Ibbotson, and Javier Vázquez-Salceda. PrIMe: A Methodology for Developing Provenance-Aware Applications. Technical report, University of Southampton, 2006. [WWW ]
7. Steve Munroe, Victor Tan, Paul Groth, Sheng Jiang, Simon Miles, and Luc Moreau. A SOAP Binding For Process Documentation. Technical report, University of Southampton, 2006. [WWW ]
8. Steve Munroe, Victor Tan, Paul Groth, Sheng Jiang, Simon Miles, and Luc Moreau. A WS-Addressing Profile for Distributed Process Documentation. Technical report, University of Southampton, 2006. [WWW ]
9. Steve Munroe, Victor Tan, Paul Groth, Sheng Jiang, Simon Miles, and Luc Moreau. The Provenance Standardisation Vision. Technical report, University of Southampton, 2006. [WWW ]
10. Victor Tan, Paul Groth, Sheng Jiang, Simon Miles, Steve Munroe, and Luc Moreau. WS Provenance Glossary. Technical report, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, 2006. [WWW ]
11. Victor Tan, Steve Munroe, Paul Groth, Sheng Jiang, Simon Miles, and Luc Moreau. A Profile for Non-Repudiable Process Documentation. Technical report, University of Southampton, 2006. [WWW ]
12. Victor Tan, Steve Munroe, Paul Groth, Sheng Jiang, Simon Miles, and Luc Moreau. Basic Transformation Profile for Documentation Style. Technical report, University of Southampton, 2006. [WWW ]

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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