ProvONE 2015/01/15 Ontology Specification

This release of the repository codifies the ProvONE Ontology, a specialization of the PROV Ontology. ProvONE allows the expression of provenance relationships in scientific workflows.

Features of this release:

• Namespace URL: http://purl.dataone.org/provone/2015/01/15/ontology#
• Usability improvements
  • Rename many of the original ProvONE classes and relationships to improve readability
• Simplified model
  • Collapse relationships where they are redundant
• Improved PROV compliance
  • Integrate the PROV qualifiedAssociation, qualifiedUsage, and qualifiedGeneration terms to further formally describe a scientific workflow
• Extend the PROV <<Entity>> class with three sub classes: Data, Document, and Visualization to discern input and output product categories of scientific workflows
• Clarify Program relationships
  • Programs have Ports for both input and output
  • Ports connect to other Ports via Channels