What is it?

Provenance is a record that describes the people, institutions, entities, and activities involved in producing, influencing, or delivering a piece of data or a thing. In particular, the provenance of information is crucial in deciding whether information is to be trusted, how it should be integrated with other diverse information sources, and how to give credit to its originators when reusing it. In an open and inclusive environment such as the Web, where users find information that is often contradictory or questionable, provenance can help those users to make trust judgements.

PROV is a set of W3C specifications defining a model, corresponding serializations and other supporting definitions to enable the inter-operable interchange of provenance information in heterogeneous environments such as the Web.

ProvToolbox is a Java library to create Java representations of PROV-DM, and convert them between RDF, PROV-XML, PROV-N, and PROV-JSONLD

Release Notes

https://github.com/lucmoreau/ProvToolbox/blob/master/RELEASES.md

Javadoc

https://javadoc.io/doc/org.openprovenance.prov/prov-model/latest/org/openprovenance/prov/model/package-summary.html

Tutorials and Documentation

• ProvToolbox Tutorial 1: Creating and Saving a PROV Document. https://lucmoreau.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/provtoolbox-tutorial-1-creating-and-saving-a-prov-document/
• ProvToolbox Tutorial 2: Reading, Converting and Saving PROV Documents. https://lucmoreau.wordpress.com/2015/07/05/provtoolbox-tutorial-2-reading-converting-and-saving-prov-documents/
• ProvToolbox Tutorial 3: Merging PROV Documents. https://lucmoreau.wordpress.com/2015/07/27/provtoolbox-tutorial-3-merging-prov-documents/
• ProvToolbox Tutorial 4: Templates for Provenance (part 1). https://lucmoreau.wordpress.com/2015/07/30/provtoolbox-tutorial-4-templates-for-provenance-part-1/
• ProvToolbox Tutorial 4: Templates for Provenance (part 2). https://lucmoreau.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/provtoolbox-tutorial-4-templates-for-provenance-part-2/
• PROV-Template: A Quick Start. https://lucmoreau.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/prov-template-a-quick-start/

• Qualified Names
  • Mapping PROV Qualified Names to xsd:QName
  • Qualified Names in ProvToolbox
  • Syntax of prov:QUALIFIED_NAME

Blog posts

• What is in ProvToolbox 0.7.3?
• What is in ProvToolbox 0.7.2?
• What is in ProvToolbox 0.7.1?
• What is in ProvToolbox 0.7.0?
• What is in ProvToolbox 0.6.2?
• What is in ProvToolbox 0.6.1?
• What is in ProvToolbox 0.6.0?
• What is in ProvToolbox 0.5.0?
• What is in ProvToolbox 0.4.0?

Installation Instructions

Requirements: https://github.com/lucmoreau/ProvToolbox/wiki/Installation#1-requirements

Building from source: https://github.com/lucmoreau/ProvToolbox/wiki/Installation#2-building-from-source

Binary install: https://github.com/lucmoreau/ProvToolbox/wiki/Installation#3-installing-binary-release

Wiki

https://github.com/lucmoreau/ProvToolbox/wiki

Contributors

• Trung Dong Huynh: JSON subpackage.
• Mike Jewell: JSON subpackage validation, RDF Conversion
• Amir Sezavar Keshavarz: JSON subpackage.
• Jamal A. Hussein: prov-generator
• Danius Michaelides: prov-template, prov-interop