FAIRsharing record for: Common Provenance Model

This FAIRsharing record describes: Also known as the "Provenance information model for biological material and data Part 1: Design concepts and general requirements" (ISO/TS 23494-1:2023), the Common Provenance Model is a standard based on W3C PROV, which allows publishing, interlinking and finding provenance information in distributed environments.

Provenance is information describing the lineage of an object, such as a dataset or biological material. Since these objects can be passed between organizations, each organization can document only parts of the objects life cycle. As a result, interconnection of distributed provenance parts forms distributed provenance chains. Dependant on the actual provenance content, complete provenance chains can provide traceability and contribute to reproducibility and FAIRness of research objects. The Common Provenance Model is a lightweight provenance model based on W3C PROV that enables generation of distributed provenance chains in complex, multi-organizational environments. The application of the model is demonstrated with a use case spanning several steps of a real-world research pipeline — starting with the acquisition of a specimen, its processing and storage, histological examination, and the generation/collection of associated data (images, annotations, clinical data), ending with training an AI model for the detection of tumor in the images.