============ Introduction

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A library for W3C Provenance Data Model supporting PROV-O (RDF), PROV-XML, PROV-JSON import/export

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

Features

• An implementation of the W3C PROV Data Model <http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/>_ in Python.
• In-memory classes for PROV assertions, which can then be output as PROV-N <http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-n/>_
• Serialization and deserialization support: PROV-O <http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/>_ (RDF), PROV-XML <http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-xml/>_ and PROV-JSON <http://www.w3.org/Submission/prov-json/>_.
• Exporting PROV documents into various graphical formats (e.g. PDF, PNG, SVG).
• Convert a PROV document to a Networkx MultiDiGraph <https://networkx.github.io/documentation/stable/reference/classes/multidigraph.html>_ and back.

Uses ^^^^

See a short tutorial <http://trungdong.github.io/prov-python-short-tutorial.html>_ for using this package.

This package is used extensively by ProvStore <https://openprovenance.org/store/>_, a free online repository for provenance documents.