prov 1.4.0

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

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.

History

1.4.0 (2015-08-13)

• Changed the type of qualified names to prov:QUALIFIED_NAME (fixed #68)

• Removed XSDQName class and stopped supporting parsing xsd:QName as qualified names

• Replaced pydot dependency with pydotplus

• Removed support for Python 2.6

• Various minor bug fixes and improvements

1.3.2 (2015-06-17)

• Added: prov-compare script to check equivalence of two PROV files (currently supporting JSON and XML)

• Fixed: deserialising Python 3’s bytes objects (issue #67)

1.3.1 (2015-02-27)

• Fixed unicode issue with deserialising text contents

• Set the correct version requirement for six

• Fixed format selection in prov-convert script

1.3.0 (2015-02-03)

• Python 3.3 and 3.4 supported

• Updated prov-convert script to support XML output

• Added missing test JSON and XML files in distributions

See a complete history.