FAIRsharing record for: W3C Provenance XML Schema

This FAIRsharing record describes: PROV-XML defines an XML schema for the provenance data model (PROV-DM). This is intended for developers who need a native XML serialization of the PROV data model. For the purpose of this specification, provenance is defined as a record that describes the people, institutions, entities, and activities involved in producing, influencing, or delivering a piece of data or a thing. In particular, the provenance of information is crucial in deciding whether information is to be trusted, how it should be integrated with other diverse information sources, and how to give credit to its originators when reusing it. In an open and inclusive environment such as the Web, where users find information that is often contradictory or questionable, provenance can help those users to make trust judgements.