Seminar: 2nd K-Space PhD Jamboree, Paris, W3C OWL Working Group meeting, Boston, Provenance Pattern for OWL Ontologies, Workshop of the EU PetaMedia project, London

Tracking the provenance of application data as well as of ontologies is of key importance in the Semantic web due to the abundance of heterogeneous and uncontrollable resources. We present a novel approach to representation of provenance metadata in ontologies and knowledge bases, relying on an OWL (1.1) design pattern. We also outline an abstract method of propagation of provenance metadata during the reasoning process.