Towards interoperable metadata provenance

Abstract

Linked data has finally arrived. But with the availability and actual usage of linked data, data from different sources gets quickly mixed and merged. While there is a lot of fundamental work about the provenance of metadata and the commonly recognized demand for expressing provenance information, there still is no standard or at least best-practice recommendation. In this paper, we summarize our own requirements based on experiences at the Mannheim University Library for metadata provenance, examine the feasibility to implement these requirements with currently available (de-facto) standards, and propose a way to bridge the missing gaps. By this paper, we hope to obtain additional feedback, which we will feed back into ongoing discussions within the recently founded DCMI task-group on metadata provenance.