Data provenance architecture based on semantic web services

Abstract

Data provenance is becoming increasingly important in distributed computing environments. Data provenance is used for inspecting and verifying data quality, data usability, and data reliability. This paper proposes a data provenance architecture based on semantic web services for managing data provenance .This architecture can record and query semantic provenance information. In detail, we present a Semantic Provenance Annotation Model and discuss a semantic provenance annotation ontology based on this model and OWL-S. © 2010 IEEE.