Ontology Based Tracking and Propagation of Provenance Metadata

Abstract. Tracking the provenance of application data is of key importance in the network environment due to the abundance of heterogeneous and controllable resources. We focus on ontologies as a mean of knowledge representation and present a novel approach to representation of provenance metadata in knowledge bases, relying on an OWL 2 design pattern. We also outline an abstract method of propagation of provenance metadata during the reasoning process.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: NDT
• Authors: Miroslav Vacura, Vojtech Svátek
• Keywords: Computer Networks, Controllable Resources, Key Importance, NDT 2010, Provenance Metadata