# 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/.

- Python 3 only.

## 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.