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PROV-O: The PROV Ontology
provenance standard
Supports explicit provenance and one interoperable asserted direction rather than copied inverse facts.
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What it informs — 6
- enforcedStore one canonical relationship assertion
- enforcedDelivery custody is a named chain, not one vendor field
- enforcedProvenance and conformance are read apart
- enforcedA relationship says what kind of claim it makes
- enforcedThe reverse reading is named, not improvised
- enforcedThe model is written in the standards its foundations name
This source is what the model was built from. It does not itself commit the model to anything — a commitment does, and the ones it informs are named above.