Kumar Sharma; Ujjal Marjit; Utpal Biswas

PTSLGA: A Provenance Tracking System for Linked Data Generating Application

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Kumar Sharma ^1,* Ujjal Marjit ² Utpal Biswas ¹

1. Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

2. Centre for Information Resource Management, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, West Bengal, India

* Corresponding author.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijitcs.2015.04.10

Received: 6 Sep. 2014 / Revised: 3 Dec. 2014 / Accepted: 20 Jan. 2015 / Published: 8 Mar. 2015

Index Terms

Provenance, Semantic Web, Linked Data, LOD

Abstract

Tracking provenance of RDF resources is an important task in Linked Data generating applications. It takes on a central function in gathering information as well as workflow. Various Linked Data generating applications have evolved for converting legacy data to RDF resources. These data belong to bibliographic, geographic, government, publications, and cross-domains. However, most of them do not support tracking data and workflow provenance for individual RDF resources. In such cases, it is required for those applications to track, store and disseminate provenance information describing their source data and involved operations. In this article, we introduce an approach for tracking provenance of RDF resources. Provenance information is tracked during the conversion process and it is stored into the triple store. Thereafter, this information is disseminated using provenance URIs. The proposed framework has been analyzed using Harvard Library Bibliographic Datasets. The evaluation has been made on datasets through converting legacy data into RDF and Linked Data with provenance. The outcome has been quiet promising in the sense that it enables data publishers to generate relevant provenance information while taking less time and efforts.

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Kumar Sharma, Ujjal Marjit, Utpal Biswas, "PTSLGA: A Provenance Tracking System for Linked Data Generating Application", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), vol.7, no.4, pp.87-93, 2015. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2015.04.10

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