Provenance Description of Metadata Vocabularies for the Long-term Maintenance of Metadata
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Article Category: Research Paper
Published Online: Mar 21, 2017
Page range: 41 - 55
Received: Dec 04, 2016
Accepted: Feb 13, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jdis-2017-0007
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Definitions of the classified Activities for provenance of metadata vocabularies.
| Activity name | Definition |
|---|---|
| RevisionOnVocabulary | The revision of the contents or information of a metadata vocabulary |
| RevisionOnTerm | The revision of a term of the metadata vocabulary |
| AdditionOnTerm | The addition of a term |
| DeletionOnTerm | The deletion of a term |
| ReplacementOnTerm | The replacement of term(s) by other term(s) |
| RevisionOnTermDefinition | The revision of a term definition |
| AdditionOnTermDefinition | The addition of a term definition |
| DeletionOnTermDefinition | The deletion of a term definition |
| ReplacementOnTermDefinition | The replacement of a term definition by another term definition |
Primitive change types of metadata vocabularies and their terms with examples.
| Change type | Example |
|---|---|
| Revision of a Vocabulary | BIBFRAME 1.0 vocabulary is revised to BIBFRAME 2.0 vocabulary. |
| Revision of a Term | |
| Addition of a Term | Class bf:Note is newly defined in BIBFRAME 2.0 vocabulary. |
| Deletion of a Term | Property bf:otherEditionOf that was defined in BIBFRAME 1.0 |
| vocabulary is deleted in BIBFRAME 2.0 vocabulary. | |
| Replacement of a Term | Property bf:credits in BIBFRAME 2.0 vocabulary essentially replaces |
| bf:creditsNote in BIBFRAME 1.0 vocabulary; Subject heading | |
| “Folklore, Negro” is split into “Folklore, African” and “Folklore, | |
| Afro-American.” | |
| Revision of a Term Definition | |
| Addition of a Term Definition | The inverse property to property bf:absorbed is added in BIBFRAME |
| 2.0 vocabulary. | |
| Deletion of a Term Definition | The definitions of property bf:otherEditionOf that was defined in |
| BIBFRAME 1.0 vocabulary is deleted in BIBFRAME 2.0 vocabulary. | |
| Replacement of a Term Definition | The expected value of property bf:copyrightRegistration is corrected |
| in BIBFRAME 2.0 vocabulary. |
Activities acted on Entities for provenance of metadata vocabularies.
| Subtypes of PROV Entity | Subtypes of PROV Activity | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revision | Addition | Deletion | Replacement | |
| Vocabulary | ○ | × | × | × |
| Term | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |
| Term Definition | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |