Evidence Graph — Method

Direct answer

Evidence Graph — Method is implemented as a source-bounded method guide. The inspected material supports only this scope: PROV-O can represent typed provenance between entities, activities, agents, inputs, outputs, derivations, associations, and attributions. Versioned metadata can name research objects, contributors, versions, typed relations, and rights statements. The page retains this limit: PROV represents asserted provenance; it does not verify truth, completeness, authentication, rights, causal validity, or passage-level claim support. Metadata fields do not establish source quality, lawful collection, relationship truth, or that one object supports another object’s claim.

Answer contract

Apply the method lens only to the exact inspected source scope; do not infer authority from adjacent topics.

Evidence and exact locators

w3c-prov-o-evidence-graph-t9 — https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ — Recommendation, 30 April 2013; Entities, Activities and Agents; used; wasGeneratedBy; wasDerivedFrom; wasAssociatedWith; wasAttributedTo. Supports: PROV-O can represent typed provenance between entities, activities, agents, inputs, outputs, derivations, associations, and attributions.

datacite-schema-evidence-graph-t9 — https://datacite-metadata-schema.readthedocs.io/en/4.6/ — version 4.6; Identifier; Creator; Contributor; Version; RelatedIdentifier; Rights. Supports: Versioned metadata can name research objects, contributors, versions, typed relations, and rights statements.

What the evidence does not establish

PROV represents asserted provenance; it does not verify truth, completeness, authentication, rights, causal validity, or passage-level claim support.

Metadata fields do not establish source quality, lawful collection, relationship truth, or that one object supports another object’s claim.

Rights and reuse

Publicly accessible source; link and bounded paraphrase only. No source text is redistributed.

Dependencies and related concepts

applies-to: urn:maha:concept:evidence:evidence-graph

governed-by: urn:maha:concept:governance

evidence-for: urn:maha:concept:evidence

Source or implementation

This source or implementation section is constrained to the same inspected scope: PROV-O can represent typed provenance between entities, activities, agents, inputs, outputs, derivations, associations, and attributions. Versioned metadata can name research objects, contributors, versions, typed relations, and rights statements.

It must preserve the recorded boundary: PROV represents asserted provenance; it does not verify truth, completeness, authentication, rights, causal validity, or passage-level claim support. Metadata fields do not establish source quality, lawful collection, relationship truth, or that one object supports another object’s claim.

Method

This method section is constrained to the same inspected scope: PROV-O can represent typed provenance between entities, activities, agents, inputs, outputs, derivations, associations, and attributions. Versioned metadata can name research objects, contributors, versions, typed relations, and rights statements.

It must preserve the recorded boundary: PROV represents asserted provenance; it does not verify truth, completeness, authentication, rights, causal validity, or passage-level claim support. Metadata fields do not establish source quality, lawful collection, relationship truth, or that one object supports another object’s claim.

Limits and uncertainty

This limits and uncertainty section is constrained to the same inspected scope: PROV-O can represent typed provenance between entities, activities, agents, inputs, outputs, derivations, associations, and attributions. Versioned metadata can name research objects, contributors, versions, typed relations, and rights statements.

It must preserve the recorded boundary: PROV represents asserted provenance; it does not verify truth, completeness, authentication, rights, causal validity, or passage-level claim support. Metadata fields do not establish source quality, lawful collection, relationship truth, or that one object supports another object’s claim.

Dependencies

This dependencies section is constrained to the same inspected scope: PROV-O can represent typed provenance between entities, activities, agents, inputs, outputs, derivations, associations, and attributions. Versioned metadata can name research objects, contributors, versions, typed relations, and rights statements.

It must preserve the recorded boundary: PROV represents asserted provenance; it does not verify truth, completeness, authentication, rights, causal validity, or passage-level claim support. Metadata fields do not establish source quality, lawful collection, relationship truth, or that one object supports another object’s claim.

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