Provenance use cases for legislation.gov.uk

Stephen Cresswell from The Stationery Office outlining:
Background
  • legislation.gov.uk – 60k pieces of legislation for UK managed by the National Archives
  • Publication in various formats – paper docs, pdf, xml, xhtml+RDFa, RDF
  • TSO (The Stationery Office) currently redesigning workflows for legislation

Use cases/Requirements:

  • Drafters of legislation (e.g. government departments) – “how is my job progressing though the publishing workflow?”
  • Management information (aggregated) – “where are the bottlenecks in the publishing workflow”
  • Maintainers may want to trace problems – “Which documents were derived from this XSLT?”
  • Anyone might ask “Where did this document come from?”
  • Acceptance test – re-run workflow from provenance graph (to prove that the provenance recorded is the true provenance – that re-running the same workflow results in the same outcome)

 

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