Review of prov-xg's Provenance Vocabulary Mappings

From Inference Web

As part of their Final Report, the W3C Provenance Incubator Group developed mappings among a variety of provenance vocabularies.

They reviewed the following vocabularies:

• OPM (diagram)
• Provenir (diagram)
• Hartig's Provenance Vocabulary (diagram)
• PML (pml-p pml-j pml-t diagrams)
• Dublin Core (dcterms and dcmitype vocabs)
• PREMIS (ppt presentation leads to ontology, preso to prov-xg, diagram forthcoming - awaiting response from author regarding potential bugs)
• WOT (diagram)
• SWAN PAV (diagram)
• SWP (diagram)
• Changeset (diagram)

SKOS encoding

Although the mappings page states:

"The mappings between the provenance terms are formally encoded using the W3C
recommended Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) vocabulary." [1]

the SKOS instance data was not referenced, was requested (13 Jan 2010), and reported as nonexistent (14 Jan 2010).

To create the SKOS encoding, Tim transcribed the prov-xg's vocab mapping table into a Google spreadsheet, which he then converted to an RDF encoding using csv2rdf4lod (more discussion).