provenance
- CURIE:
gmeow:provenance - IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/provenance
- Category: property
- Defined by:
gmeow:slices/provenance - Box roles: CBox role, RBox role (What is this?)
A free-text statement of any changes in ownership and custody of a resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation (the dcterms:provenance idiom). A prose escape hatch — prefer the structured derivation, generation, and attribution links when the custody chain can be modelled as graph relations.
Structure
Property shape: datatype property; gmeow:Entity -> rdfs:Literal
Practical Pattern
Use gmeow:provenance from gmeow:Entity to rdfs:Literal when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.
Common Companion Terms
Projects To
| Profile | External Targets |
|---|---|
dcterms |
dcterms |
oai_dc |
dc |
External Equivalences
Equivalent or closely aligned targets: dcterms
Linkages
Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.
Term Equivalences
| Source | Kind | Profile | Predicate/Relation | Target | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gmeow:provenance |
equivalence | - |
skos:closeMatch | dcterms:provenance | gmeow-dublin-core.sssom.tsv; gmeow:eqDcTerms030; confidence 0.75 |
Projection Coverage
| Source | Kind | Profile | Predicate/Relation | Target | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
gmeow:provenance |
projection | dcterms |
projects to / = | dcterms:provenance | gmeow:mapDctermsProvenance; confidence 0.75 |
gmeow:provenance |
projection | oai_dc |
projects to / <= | dc:source | gmeow:mapOaiDcProvenance; confidence 0.5; lossy: provenance falls to dc:source in the 15-element dumb-down |
Usage Advice
Use when
- Use for a human-readable custody/ownership narrative that resists structured modelling — provenance prose imported from a catalogue record or curator's note.
Avoid when
- Avoid when the custody chain can be expressed structurally; prefer
gmeow:wasDerivedFrom,gmeow:wasGeneratedBy, andgmeow:wasAttributedToso the lineage is queryable rather than locked in a literal.
How to use
- Attach the prose to the
gmeow:Entityas a literal; where parts of the narrative can be lifted into structured derivation, generation, or attribution links, model those and reserve this property for the irreducible remainder.
Examples
- ex:report
gmeow:provenance"Donated 1998; held by the city archive since 2004.".