Provenance and Linked Data Issues

This list formed from discussions and voting yesterday (and will be posted to the wiki at some point)

Top Issues:

  • Things that change (if the thing that a URI points at change – e.g. boundaries of a geographical area) then what happens to the existing provenance statements
  • Provenance of links between data ‘islands’
  • Summarisation of provenance to aid usability and scalability
  • Reasoning about provenance: Cross-referencing filling the gap in the provenance

Further issues

  • 80/20 principle for provenance
  • What general provenance model to use to enable interoperability
  • Provenance for validation of facts
  • Is reasoning even possible over provenance?
  • Interaction of triple stores and data integration/transformation
  • Semantics vs data capture (does the rich semantic nature of Linked Data offset the need to capture provenance data ‘at source’)
  • Access level of provenance (public vs private provenance statements)

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