Provenance Ontology
type: Ontology
comment: The provenance ontology supports data management and auditing tasks. It is used to define the different types of named graphs we used in the store (quad store) and enables their association with metadata that allow us to manage, validate and expose data to our services
license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
date: 2012-12-01
imports: terms
imports: http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
imports: bbc
canonicalLocation: https://github.com/bbc/common-metadata/blob/master/ontologies/provenance.ttl
changeReason: Deprecation Date range correction
version: 1.13
prior version: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/provenance/1.12
version IRI: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ontologies/provenance/1.13
version info: 1.13
slug: provenance
public: true

Dataset
type: Class
subclass of: Graph
comment: Dataset is a single graph which contains a collection of things that is managed together, e.g., "the dataset of the BBC's News Regions". The management of datasets involves editing RDF files and publishing them to the triplestore in a single action. This requires a good knowledge of semantic technologies therefore datasets are managed by experts.

ThingGraph
type: Class
subclass of: Graph
comment: Thing graphs hold metadata about a single thing. Note the difference with Datasets, which hold metadata about many things. Thing graphs are usually exposed to user friendly tools which allow users with little on no RDF skills to specifically edit a metadata about a thing in a form. For example a thing graph can contain metadata about a football team such as its various names, LOD links for the team, a short disambiguation hint, e.t.c. Thing graphs are also used to store metadata about things obtained from a feed, for example store metadata about locations obtained from a Location Services feed.

CreativeWorkGraph
type: Class
subclass of: Graph
comment: The class of named graphs which contain the metadata for the CreativeWorks. For example all the metadata for a news story provided by a CMS will be contained in a single CreativeWorkGraph instance.

Ontology
type: Class
subclass of: Graph
comment: Graphs that contain ontologies in the store are declared to be of type provenance:Ontology. The graph name in the store is identical to the ontology IRI.

Graph
type: Class
subclass of: Thing
comment: The class of named graphs. All our data is stored in named graphs of different types depending on its provenance and management. These are specified by the subclasses of Graph.

Transition Ontology
type: Class
subclass of: Ontology
comment: An ontology that is used to provide a transition feature for a parent ontology

DeletedGraph
type: Class
comment: A DeletedGraph is a single graph describing an archived ThingGraph.
subclass of: Graph

product
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Graph
range: Product
comment: The reference to the product from which the dataset, graph was created. This is needed for dataset management permissions. Not to be confused with bbc:product.

managedBy
type: ObjectProperty
domain: ThingGraph
range: System
comment: Associates the thing graph of a cms:ManagedThing with its managing system. This is needed to solve cases where different systems can manage metadata about a shared thing. E.g., one thing graph from BBC News may have all the politics related metadata for David Cameron, while another thing graph managed by Knowledge and Learning may contain information about the historical role David Cameron has played as a conservative leader in British politics. Separating metadata into thing graphs is useful for managing information about shared things.

transitions
type: ObjectProperty
domain: Property
range: Property
comment: The property that this transition property is providing a transition for.

canonicalLocation
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Graph
range: string
comment: The canonical location where all the triples contained within the context (named graph) are stored in and can be referred to outside the triplestore.

changeReason
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Graph
range: string
comment: The reason for the most recent change applied to the graph.

provided
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Graph
range: dateTime
comment: The date and time at which the data was provided to the triplestore.

provider
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Graph
range: anyURI
comment: The email address extracted from the BBC SSL Certificate, indicating the person or system which directly interacted with the writer service to put the data in the store.

version
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Graph
range: string
comment: The version of the graph.

deprecated
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Resource
range: boolean
comment: A predicate to allow hiding of Things so as to not delete them and lose the reference object.

slug
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Ontology
range: string
comment: This is a short human readable identifier for the ontology.

public
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Graph
range: boolean
comment: This predicate allows the distinction of ontologies that are appropriate for publishing from those ones that are currently kept internal, e.g., for testing purposes.

owner
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Graph
range: anyURI
comment: This property indicates the owner of the data, i.e., the person or CMS who's responsible for managing and governing the data.

created
type: DatatypeProperty
domain: Resource
range: dateTime
comment: The date when a Thing was created.

deprecates
type: ObjectProperty
comment: The thing that this is superseding.
domain: Resource
range: Resource

isDeprecatedBy
type: ObjectProperty
comment: The thing that is superseding this deprecated thing.
domain: Resource
range: Resource

deprecationDate
type: DatatypeProperty
comment: The date when this thing will be deprecated and potentially no longer available.
domain: Resource
range: dateTime

deprecationComment
type: DatatypeProperty
comment: Information pertinent to a resource's deprecation status
domain: Resource
range: string

described
type: ObjectProperty
comment: The Thing which was described by a Thing Graph prior to archival.
domain: DeletedGraph
range: Resource