Compatibility Challenges of the Current State-of-the-Art Provenance Tools
摘要
Provenance is information about the history of a described object. The current standard for provenance representation, W3C PROV, results from several years of efforts in the semantic web, linked data, computational workflows, databases, and other computer science-related communities. The standard is currently used as a groundwork for developing the ISO 23494 provenance standard series. During the development of the ISO standard, the PROV model’s two major implementations – Prov Python and ProvToolbox – were used and found not fully compatible. This paper introduces the current standardization effort and related projects, describes issues encountered during the usage of the implementations, and discusses the potential causes and conclusions.