Skip to content

PROV-O: The PROV Ontology

Describes entities, activities, agents, and provenance relationships.

Identity and normative owner

Record: prov-o; record authority: Modeling. Normative owner of subject: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Resource reference: https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ Registration is for discovery, not adoption, endorsement, or transfer of normative ownership.

Editions

  • 2013-04-30: W3C Recommendation. Named edition for identification, not a claim that it is the newest edition.

Distributions and references

  • prov-o-documentation — documentation, text/html, en. Rights are assessed per distribution in the record. Unassessed rights do not imply permission to redistribute.

Verification scope

  • metadata-observed (2026-09-17): Landing-page/specification metadata only; no distribution bytes, legal clearance, current-latest guarantee, or implementation conformance was verified.

Cautions

  • Provenance records evidence about origin; they do not by themselves authenticate an assertion or grant authority.