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Chapter 9
A Language for
Provenance Access
Control
9.1 Overview
In Chapter 8, we discussed the design of a scalable and efficient access control
model for securing both data and its provenance. We assumed that both the tra-
ditional data and provenance were represented in a RDF format and therefore we
could take advantage of an integrated Semantic Web environment to represent and
reason over RBAC policies. Besides the scalability and efficiency of an access con-
trol mechanism for managing a provenance system, there are other concerns we
need to address before we arrive at a unified framework for provenance.
Traditional access control models focu ...