5 Simple Provenance Statements
From the webpage:
Providing easily processable information about the provenance or origins of Web pages and data is important. It lets us give credit where its due and it helps others trust the information we publish on the Web.
Here’s some simple provenance statements one can make using PROV-DM, the recently released working draft of a data model for provenance from the W3C.
Evaluate PROV-DM in light of two concerns:
1) Does it allow for the expression of different ways of expressing provenance? Consider the differing museum metadata standards for provenance. As just a tiny corner of that world, see: Introduction to Controlled Vocabularies by Patricia Harpring (online version).
2) On the other hand, is it too restrictive and complex for simple provenance statements by the average user?
Hard to fail by being too general (#1) and being too restrictive (#2) at the same time but odder things have happened in discussions of semantics.