Toward Efficient Web Publishing with Provenance of Information Using Trusty URIs: Applying the proposed model with the Quran

TL;DR

This paper introduces a methodology using Trusty URIs to ensure the stability and provenance of web data, demonstrated through application to the Quran, enhancing trustworthiness without additional loading overhead.

Contribution

The paper proposes a novel Trusty URI-based approach for establishing immutable and verifiable data provenance on the web, applicable to linked data and semantic web contexts.

Findings

Methodology is highly applicable with no additional loading overhead.

Applicable to data portals and web content management systems.

Successfully applied to the Quran as a case study.

Abstract

This research presents a methodology for trusting the provenance of data on the web. The implication is that data does not change after publication and the source of the data is stable. There are different data that should not change over time, such as published information in books and similar documents as well as news or events reported on the web. If the data change after publication on the web, the web pages that reference the unstable data will lose points of interest or link to different resources. With the current move to linked data and the semantic web, this is becoming a greater obstacle to be solved. This research presents a methodology for establishing trusted information using an encoded reference of the data embedded in its URI, which creates a stable reference of the data and a method for ensuring its provenance stability. After applying the methodology, the results showed that the methodology is highly applicable and has no overhead cost over the loading time. The novel solution can be applied directly to any data portals or web content management systems.