Presentation on provenance use cases from data.gov.uk and introduction of opmv for the prov-xg meeting on 2010-Oct-08.
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The Open Provenance
Model Vocabulary
Jun Zhao
University of Oxford
Jun.zhao@zoo.ox.ac.uk
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Outline
Background about data.gov.uk
The use cases
XML serialization
Data transformation on the fly
Complex and nested processes
Provenance of non-digital artifacts
The Open Provenance Model Vocabulary (OPMV)
The rationale
An overview
Examples
Future work
Summary
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data.gov.uk
Linking UK government data
Aims:
Provide a set of best practices for government agencies
Provide the minimum set of tooling and specification to facilitate
the publication and consumption of data
Encourage responsible data publishing
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Non-digital Data Objects
Organizations
Organizational structure changes over time
Origin organization, resulting Organization
Boundary
Legislation
AnorganizaGonontology:hOp://www.epimorphics.com/public/vocabulary/org.html
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The Challenges
Data of different representations, of physical forms, of
granularity
Not tooling support
Provenance across different types of systems
Identification
Different terminologies
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The Gaps
A vocabulary being able to describe provenance of all types
of data, from different systems
A vocabulary providing enough terms to describe
provenance accurately
Guidance on creating and publishing provenance on the Web
Tool supports for creating and publishing provenance on the
Web
Provenance access
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The Open Provenance Model
Vocabulary
Based on the Open Provenance Model
Enable responsible data publication, in order to trace the
responsible agents and to reproduce results
Enable to describe provenance of any types of data
An alternative implementation of the OWL OPM Serialization
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The Rationale
Grounded upon existing SW technologies
Do not explicitly define a graph, OPMGraph
Named Graphs
Reuse existing vocabularies
Lightweight
3 classes and 12 properties
Reuse 3 classes from the W3C Time Ontology
Easy to use and extend
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Overview of the Vocabulary
Defined as a vocabulary expressed using OWL
Implement the core concepts of the Open Provenance Model
No specific granularity prescribed
Partitioned into:
The Core Module
Other typed modules: common, xml, gate, sparql
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Comparison with OPM OWL
A more intuitive OWL ontology and RDF representation
Take full advantage of SW technologies
Lack of explicit semantics for graph membership
Less expressivity, e.g. no cardinality constraints
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Future Development
More typed modules
A guide on how to publish provenance
Where and how much
What is the minimum provenance
How to represent the information
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Summary
The vocabulary is well-accepted and easy to understand for
the data.gov.uk team
Experimental adoption, not yet large scale production
Missing the guidance on what provenance information to be
created and published, and how
Lack of ideas about how provenance information will be used
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