Decision Provenance ontology (DecPROV)

This ontology is a reduced-in-scope version of the W3C Decisions and Decision-Making Incubator Group's Decision Ontology (DO) which can be found at . It has been re-worked to align entirely with the W3C's PROV ontology since it is widely recognised that analysing the elements of decisions post hoc is an exercise in provenance.

Unlike the original DO, this ontology cannot be used for normative scenarios: it is only capable of recording decisions that have already been made (so-called data-driven use in the DO). This is because PROV, to which this ontology is completely mapped, does not have a templating system which can indicate what should occur in future scenarios.

This ontology introduces only one new element for decision modelling over that which was present in the DO: an Agent which allows agency in decision making to be recorded. @en