Submission Request to W3C: PROV-JSONLD

Submitted Materials

We, W3C Member King's College London and the Authors Luc Moreau and Dong Huynh, hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification, comprising the following document(s) attached hereto:

1. The PROV-JSONLD Serialization. A JSON-LD Representation for the PROV Data Model
2. The JSON Schema for PROV-JSONLD
3. The JSONLD Context for PROV-JSONLD
4. OWL Ontology Extension to support PROV-JSONLD

which collectively are referred to as "the Submission". We request the Submission be known as the prov-jsonld Submission.

Abstract

Provenance is information about entities, activities, and people involved in producing a piece of data or thing, which can be used to form assessments about the data or thing's quality, reliability or trustworthiness. PROV-DM is the conceptual data model that forms a basis for the W3C provenance (PROV) family of specifications. This document specifies PROV-JSONLD, a serialization of PROV in JSON, which exploits JSON-LD to define a semantic mapping so it can also be processed as Linked Data. Overall, PROV-JSONLD is designed to be suitable for interchanging provenance in Web and Linked Data applications, to offer a natural encoding of provenance for its targeted audience, and to allow for fast processing.

Intellectual Property Statements

Copyrights

King's College London and the authors hereby grants to the W3C a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any King's College London copyrights on this contribution, to copy, publish and distribute the contribution under the W3C document licenses.

Additionally, should the Submission be used as a contribution towards a W3C activity, King's College London and the authors grant a right and license of the same scope to any derivative works prepared by W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part of, the contribution. King's College London and the authors further agree that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by W3C shall be solely owned by W3C.

Should the Submission not be used as a contribution towards a W3C Activity, change control of the Submission shall remain with the Authors, until such a point W3C wishes to use it towards an W3C Activity.

Trade and Service Marks

The Submission refers to no trade and service marks (registered or not).

Patents

The organization I represent on the W3C Advisory Committee agrees to offer licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section 5 of the 15 September 2020 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.

Required proprietary technology

No proprietary technology is associated with the use of this technology.

Suggested action

We suggest that the Consortium advertises the submission as a resource for the W3C Provenance and Semantic Web Communities. As such it can be used for reference, or at some point in the future, be incorporated into new work initiated by the community.

Resources

To help with this work, the authors expect but do not commit to provide document editorial assistance to the Consortium.

Contact

Inquiries from the public or press about this Submission should be directed to: Luc Moreau

Submitted

this 7th July, 2024,

Nick Leake, King's College London