appears_in: []
contact:
  email: stian@soiland-reyes.com
  name: Stian Soiland-Reyes
  orcid: 0000-0001-9842-9718
contributor:
  email: nicolas.matentzoglu@gmail.com
  github: matentzn
  name: Nicolas Matentzoglu
  orcid: 0000-0002-7356-1779
contributor_extras:
- email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
depends_on: []
deprecated: false
description: PAV is a lightweight ontology for tracking provenance, authorship, and
  versioning. It specializes the W3C provenance ontology PROV-O in order to describe
  authorship, curation and digital creation of online resources.
download_owl: http://aber-owl.net/media/ontologies/PAV/3/pav.owl
example: authoredBy
example_extras: []
github_request_issue: 186
homepage: https://pav-ontology.github.io/pav/
keywords:
- citation
- data management
- ontology
- quality
- resource metadata
- subject agnostic
mappings:
  aberowl: PAV
  biocontext: pav
  biolink: pav
  bioportal: PAV
  fairsharing: FAIRsharing.nbfwwv
  lov: pav
name: Provenance, Authoring, and Versioning Vocabulary
pattern: ^[a-z][a-zA-Z]+$
preferred_prefix: pav
prefix: pav
providers: []
publications:
- doi: 10.1186/2041-1480-4-37
  pmc: PMC4177195
  pubmed: '24267948'
  title: 'PAV ontology: provenance, authoring and versioning'
  year: 2013
repository: http://pav-ontology.github.io/pav/
reviewer:
  email: cthoyt@gmail.com
  github: cthoyt
  name: Charles Tapley Hoyt
  orcid: 0000-0003-4423-4370
synonyms: []
uri_format: http://purl.org/pav/$1
