A spate of provenance ontology materials landed in my inbox today:
- Open Provenance Model Ontology (OPMO)
- Open Provenance Model Vocabulary (OPMV)
- Open Provenance Model (OPM)
- Provenance Vocabulary Mappings
We should could ourselves fortunate that the W3C working group did not title their document: Open Provenance Model Vocabulary Mappings.
The community would be better served with less clever and more descriptive naming.
No doubt the Open Provenance Model Vocabulary (#2 above) has some range of materials in mind.
I don’t know the presumed target but some candidates come to mind:
- Art Museum Open Provenance Model (including looting/acquisition terms)
- Library Open Provenance Model
- Natural History Open Provenance Model
- ….
I am, of course, giving the author’s the benefit of the doubt in presuming their intent was not to create a universal model of provenance.
For topic map purposes, the Provenance Vocabulary Mappings document (#4 above) is the most interesting. Read through it and then answer the questions below.
Questions:
- Assume you have yet another provenance vocabulary. On what basis would you map it to any of the other vocabularies discussed in #4?
- Most of the mappings in #4 give a rationale. How is that (if it is) different from properties and merging rules for topic maps?
- What should we do with mappings in #4 or elsewhere that don’t give a rationale?
- How should we represent rationales for mappings? Is there some alternative not considered by topic maps?
Summarize your thoughts in 3-5 pages for all four questions. They are too interrelated to answer separately. You can use citations if you like but these aren’t questions answered in the literature. Or, well, at least I don’t find any of the answers in the literature convincing. 😉 Your experience may vary.
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