Provenance use and it’s Application in Education Domain using owl/XML Syntax in Protégé

Abstract

Current web applications are “closed” web applications. Such applications do not support integration and interoperability amongst them. Semantic web stack, however provides for languages and tools that help in achieving interoperability and integration amongst various web applications. Web applications developed nowadays are distributed and interoperable. Semantic web stack enables the designers to embed semantic web descriptions using Ontologies [1]. Ontologies provide a shared understanding of a given realm that can be disseminated amongst people and across application systems [2]. In addition to building semantic web systems that are interoperable and distributed there is also a need to make these semantically enabled systems trustworthy. Various work has been done till date regarding the trust and various mathematical models have been proposed t regarding the same. In this paper we are trying to address the issue of provenance using PROV-DM data model. The Provenance architecture has been proposed by the Provenance working group. We have tried to implement the data model in a university Ontology and have tried to show how provenance can be embedded to Semantically enabled University People Program Ontology.