# Introduction

A library for W3C Provenance Data Model supporting PROV-O (RDF), PROV-XML, PROV-JSON import/export

- Free software: MIT license
- Documentation: http://prov.readthedocs.io/.

## Features

- An implementation of the W3C PROV Data Model in Python.
- In-memory classes for PROV assertions, which can then be output as PROV-N
- Serialization and deserialization support: PROV-O (RDF), PROV-XML and PROV-JSON.
- Exporting PROV documents into various graphical formats (e.g. PDF, PNG, SVG).
- Convert a PROV document to a Networkx MultiDiGraph and back.

### Uses

See a short tutorial for using this package.

This package is used extensively by ProvStore, a free online repository for provenance documents.