Registry PROV Namespace

The namespace name http://www.w3.org/ns/prov# is intended for use with the PROV family of documents that support the interchange of provenance on the web.

Prefix: prov
Preferred Prefix: prov
Alternative Prefixes: prov-o
Keywords: data management ess metadata standardization nfdi4chem nfdi4ing ontology resource metadata subject agnostic w3c rec
Links: Homepage OWL

Identifier Standards

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers: Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier: Activity Resolve
Example CURIE: prov:Activity

Contacts

Contact: Provenance Working Group
Contributors: submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt

Ontology

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

In Collection (7): Semantic Web Context NFDI4Chem Collection DALIA Resources NFDI4Ing Collection NFDI4Earth Collection FAIRagro Collection NFDI4Biodiversity Collection

Mappings to External Registries

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 9 mappings to external registries with 4 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name	Registry Metaprefix	External Prefix
AberOWL	`aberowl`	`PROVO`
BioContext	`biocontext`	`prov`
BiodivPortal	`biodivportal`	`PROV-O`
Biolink	`biolink`	`prov`
FAIRSharing	`fairsharing`	`FAIRsharing.2rm2b3`
LOV	`lov`	`prov`
OLS	`ols`	`prov`
TIB-TS	`tib`	`prov`
Zazuko	`zazuko`	`prov`

Providers

Suggest

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 Activity is used to demonstrate the providers available for PROV Namespace. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Provider Name	Provider Code	URI
PROV Namespace	`prov`	http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#Activity
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/prov:Activity

Normalize prefixes. This can be any capitalization or punctuation variant of the synonyms listed below.

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.normalize_prefix("prov-o")
'prov'

Get all synonyms:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_synonyms("prov")
{'prov-o'}

This name annotation was originally annotated in Bioregistry and is redistributed under the CC0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("prov")
'PROV Namespace'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("prov")
'https://www.w3.org/ns/prov'

Get the OWL download link:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_owl_download("prov")
'http://aber-owl.net/media/ontologies/PROVO/124/provo.owl'

Get the contact's name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_name("prov")
'Provenance Working Group'

Get the contact's email:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_contact_email("prov")
'public-prov-comments@w3.org'