Common Provenance Model RO-Crate profile

Research objects, such as data, experimental results, computational models, or biological samples, are exchanged between organizations, so each of the organizations can provide provenance information only about a part of the research object’s life cycle. As a result, a complete provenance description of the object is then spread across different heterogeneous organizations.

The Common Provenance Model (CPM) provides a baseline for such distributed provenance chains. It defines how to interconnect distributed provenance parts encapsulated in PROV bundles, how to express standardized derivation paths between inputs and outputs of a process in a single bundle (so called provenance backbone), and how to attach domain specific information to the chain in a harmonized way.

This document specifies how to identify and handle CPM compliant provenance files and CPM compliant meta-provenance files in an RO-Crate.

Releases

• cpm-ro-crate 0.1 (PID: https://w3id.org/cpm/ro-crate/0.1)
• cpm-ro-crate 0.2 (PID: https://w3id.org/cpm/ro-crate/0.2)

Vocabulary

The following terms are defined in the namespace https://w3id.org/cpm/ro-crate# and can be used with RO-Crate when conforming to this profile.

CPMProvenanceFile

• Permalink: https://w3id.org/cpm/ro-crate#CPMProvenanceFile
• Definition: A provenance file in a PROV format, that follows the expectations of the Common Provenance Model (CPM)
• Expected properties: CPMProvenanceFile requirements

CPMMetaProvenanceFile

• Permalink: https://w3id.org/cpm/ro-crate#CPMMetaProvenanceFile
• Subclass of: CPMProvenanceFile
• Definition: A meta-provenance file that contains provenance of another provenance file.
• Expected properties: CPMProvenanceFile requirements