The PROV Python package now reads PROV-N, the notation used throughout the W3C PROV documents, so you can load it straight into Python, then draw it, convert it or build on it.
Documentation is hard work! I started the work on the PROV Python package nearly three years ago and yet its documentation is still quite lacking. As a small effort to make up for it, I thought a simple tutorial might help a bit.
After showing the TextMate PROV-N bundle to my colleagues, one pointed to me the powerful Ace code editor, which comes with tools to facilitate adding a new syntax. I found it even easier to work with compared to TextMate's bundle editor. After a day, I managed to port the PROV-N …
The Provenance Notation (PROV-N) has been my
chosen representation when it comes to writing provenance. It has a relatively
low cognitive cost and easier for humans to read (at least to me), compared to
other provenance representations. Even so, I usually found myself making mundane
mistakes and typos and have …
