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.

Prefix

pav

Preferred Prefix

pav

Keywords

data management ontology quality resource metadata subject agnostic

Links

Homepage OWL Request Discussion

Publications

2013 PAV ontology: provenance, authoring and versioning

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Provenance, Authoring, and Versioning Vocabulary should match this regular expression:
^[a-z][a-zA-Z]+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

authoredBy   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Provenance, Authoring, and Versioning Vocabulary should match this regular expression:
^pav:[a-z][a-zA-Z]+$

Example CURIE

pav:authoredBy

Contact

Stian Soiland-Reyes   0000-0001-9842-9718

Contributors

submitter Nicolas Matentzoglu   0000-0002-7356-1779   matentzn

contributor Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

Reviewer

Charles Tapley Hoyt   0000-0003-4423-4370   cthoyt

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection (1)

Semantic Web Context

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 6 mappings to external registries with 2 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier authoredBy is used to demonstrate the providers available for Provenance, Authoring, and Versioning Vocabulary. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.