PAV ontology: provenance, authoring and versioning

Journal of Biomedical Semantics

Tim Clark¹  Carole Goble¹  Alasdair JG Gray¹  Khalid Belhajjame¹  Stian Soiland-Reyes¹  Paolo Ciccarese² 

[1] School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK;Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA

关键词: Attribution;    Semantic web;    Annotation;    Versioning;    Authoring;    Provenance;   

Others  :  806445
DOI  :  10.1186/2041-1480-4-37

 received in 2013-04-26, accepted in 2013-10-07,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Provenance is a critical ingredient for establishing trust of published scientific content. This is true whether we are considering a data set, a computational workflow, a peer-reviewed publication or a simple scientific claim with supportive evidence. Existing vocabularies such as Dublin Core Terms (DC Terms) and the W3C Provenance Ontology (PROV-O) are domain-independent and general-purpose and they allow and encourage for extensions to cover more specific needs. In particular, to track authoring and versioning information of web resources, PROV-O provides a basic methodology but not any specific classes and properties for identifying or distinguishing between the various roles assumed by agents manipulating digital artifacts, such as author, contributor and curator.

Results

We present the Provenance, Authoring and Versioning ontology (PAV, namespace http://purl.org/pav/ webcite): a lightweight ontology for capturing “just enough” descriptions essential for tracking the provenance, authoring and versioning of web resources. We argue that such descriptions are essential for digital scientific content. PAV distinguishes between contributors, authors and curators of content and creators of representations in addition to the provenance of originating resources that have been accessed, transformed and consumed. We explore five projects (and communities) that have adopted PAV illustrating their usage through concrete examples. Moreover, we present mappings that show how PAV extends the W3C PROV-O ontology to support broader interoperability.

Method

The initial design of the PAV ontology was driven by requirements from the AlzSWAN project with further requirements incorporated later from other projects detailed in this paper. The authors strived to keep PAV lightweight and compact by including only those terms that have demonstrated to be pragmatically useful in existing applications, and by recommending terms from existing ontologies when plausible.

Discussion

We analyze and compare PAV with related approaches, namely Provenance Vocabulary (PRV), DC Terms and BIBFRAME. We identify similarities and analyze differences between those vocabularies and PAV, outlining strengths and weaknesses of our proposed model. We specify SKOS mappings that align PAV with DC Terms. We conclude the paper with general remarks on the applicability of PAV.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Ciccarese et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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