Links and provenance

We propose a pattern based on RDF* [4] to describe the provenance at different levels (figure below). The use of RDF* is particularly useful for this purpose, as it allows to embed provenance information to every triple in the dataset. This simplifies and streamlines the model, eliminating the need for n-ary relations or reification for each triple.

The proposed pattern is straightforward and comprises the class core:Reference, which describes the source of the reference (using the class core:Source) and the method used to obtain the annotation (using the class core:SourceMethod). Additionally, the datatype properties core:confidence and core:retrievedOn describe the confidence of the annotation and the date it was produced, respectively.

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