Metadata Provenance in Europeana and the Semantic Web

This thesis gives an overview on various ways and best-practices to handle metadata provenance in the SemanticWeb, including the employment of linked data principles, reification, OAI-ORE, and named graphs. It reflects the work of the W3C Provenance Working Group, the W3C RDF Working Group and the DCMI Metadata Provenance Task Group, with a special emphasis on a mapping between Dublin Core and the upcoming PROV model. Based on these foundations, a proposal for the Europeana Data Model is developed.