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

citation data management ontology quality resource metadata subject agnostic

Links

Homepage Repository OWL Request Discussion

Contact

Stian Soiland-Reyes   0000-0001-9842-9718

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

Publications

2013 PAV ontology: provenance, authoring and versioning

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

Semantic Web Context

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 6 mappings to external registries for this resource 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. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.