Request Open: January 19, 2026 12:00 am — February 9, 2026 12:00 am (18 days left) (AoE)
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is seeking public comment on the proposed Provenance Domain Working Group (DWG) Charter.
The proposed Provenance DWG is intended to be a formal group within the OGC to discuss developing a standard way of managing provenance across OGC standards and APIs. Provenance is understood as the historical record of data and services, detailing their origin and registering associated metadata as data and services move through processes and transformations.
This proposed DWG Charter defines the role of OGC activities for a group representing the interests of multiple communities that would benefit from a common international framework for creating, storing, and processing provenance records related to Integrity, Provenance, and Trust (IPT) in data and services. The DWG will support the definition of the IPT building blocks, which are intended to serve as a cross-domain reference for all OGC APIs.
The communities expected to participate in the proposed DWG operate across a range of market and application domains. Membership is expected to include participants from defense, OGC API, and security domains, as well as other communities, such as AI, Digital Rights Management (DRM), and remote sensing. While these domains have distinct markets with different user requirements, business needs, and vendor approaches, they share several common elements including:
- A set of best practices developed in OGC Testbeds 19-20 addressing the implementation of identity concepts in data and services (OGC APIs);
- Results from other OGC Working Groups (e.g., Training Data Markup Language);
- Provenance building blocks requirements; and
- Provenance links to data quality.
The proposed OGC Provenance DWG will provide an open forum for discussion of provenance within the domain of IPT and in relation to other standards development organizations, including ISO and W3C, as well as OGC Standards, Best Practices, Pilots, Testbeds, and other relevant activities and documents that may help resolve interoperability issues in communities focused on IPT. The scope of this DWG aligns with the OGC FAIR principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability.
This Charter is to be presented to the OGC Technical and Planning Committees for their consideration.
To Comment:
The proposed Provenance Domain Working Group (DWG) Charter is available for review and comment for a period of 21 days. Comments are due by February 09, 2026.
Comments can be submitted in the OGC GitHub repository for a period ending on the “Close request date” listed above. Comments received will be consolidated and reviewed by OGC members for potential incorporation into the document.
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