ghisvail / prov

A Python library for W3C Provenance Data Model supporting PROV-JSON import/export

Introduction

A library for W3C Provenance Data Model supporting PROV-JSON and PROV-XML import/export

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: http://prov.readthedocs.org.

Features

• An implementation of the W3C PROV Data Model in Python.
• In-memory classes for PROV assertions, which can then be output as PROV-N
• Serialization and deserializtion support: PROV-JSON and PROV-XML.
• Exporting PROV documents into various graphical formats (e.g. PDF, PNG, SVG).

Uses

See a short tutorial for using this package.

This package is used extensively by ProvStore, a free online repository for provenance documents.