Decision support
Compare standards by the job they do Place up to three profiles side by side. Compare their architectural role, lifecycle reach, and first limitation to test. No single standard covers every layer.
Working set
Choose profiles 1 of 3 selected
01 PROV-O Ontology / data model
Select from the library FAIR: FAIR Guiding Principles CDISC: CDISC Foundational Standards FHIR®: HL7® FHIR® R5 OMOP CDM: OMOP Common Data Model Allotrope: Allotrope Framework ISA: ISA Model & Tools OBO Foundry: OBO Foundry Bioschemas: Bioschemas Profiles RO-Crate: RO-Crate DCAT 3: W3C DCAT 3 DRS + WES: GA4GH DRS + WES Deployment Pattern Croissant: MLCommons Croissant FDOF: FAIR Digital Object Framework CDISC BCs: CDISC Biomedical Concepts DICOM: DICOM Standard ISO IDMP: ISO IDMP Suite Phenopackets: GA4GH Phenopackets OME-NGFF: OME-Zarr / OME-NGFF mzML: HUPO-PSI mzML DQV: W3C Data Quality Vocabulary DUO: GA4GH Data Use Ontology SHACL: W3C SHACL NIST AI RMF: NIST AI Risk Management Framework SAM/BAM · CRAM · VCF/BCF: GA4GH HTS Format Specifications SDRF-Proteomics: SDRF-Proteomics BIDS: Brain Imaging Data Structure NWB: Neurodata Without Borders mzIdentML: HUPO-PSI mzIdentML MIAME · MINSEQE: MIAME + MINSEQE Guidelines mzTab: HUPO-PSI mzTab + mzTab-M SBML · SED-ML: SBML + SED-ML Modeling Stack AnIML: Analytical Information Markup Language UDM: Pistoia Alliance Unified Data Model FAIR DMM: RDA FAIR Data Maturity Model DataCite: DataCite Metadata Schema DPV: W3C Data Privacy Vocabulary ODRL: W3C ODRL Information Model SPDX: SPDX 3.0 System Bill of Materials Data Package: Data Package Standard ISO/IEC 5259: ISO/IEC 5259 Data Quality for Analytics and Machine Learning Data Cards: Data Cards for AI Dataset Documentation OpenLineage: OpenLineage CoreTrustSeal: CoreTrustSeal Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements USDM: CDISC Unified Study Definitions Model CDISC ODM: CDISC Operational Data Model LOINC: Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes SNOMED CT: SNOMED CT International Edition UCUM: Unified Code for Units of Measure MedDRA: Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities WHODrug: WHODrug Global PCORnet CDM: PCORnet Common Data Model Sentinel CDM: Sentinel Common Data Model Vulcan RWD IG: HL7 Vulcan Retrieval of Real World Data for Clinical Research CWL: Common Workflow Language MIxS: Minimum Information about any (x) Sequence InChI: IUPAC International Chemical Identifier BioCompute: IEEE 2791-2020 BioCompute Objects OECD OHTs: OECD Harmonised Templates REMBI: Recommended Metadata for Biological Images ARRIVE 2.0: ARRIVE Guidelines 2.0 GA4GH VRS: GA4GH Variation Representation Specification RDA maDMP: RDA DMP Common Standard for Machine-actionable Data Management Plans ISO/IEC 11179: ISO/IEC 11179 Metadata Registries (MDR) ODCS: Open Data Contract Standard ISO/IEC 27560: ISO/IEC TS 27560 Consent Record Information Structure OAIS: ISO 14721 Open Archival Information System Reference Model CARE: CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance DDI-CDI: DDI Cross-Domain Integration DSP: Dataspace Protocol eCTD v4.0: ICH M8 electronic Common Technical Document (eCTD) v4.0 ICH E2B(R3): ICH E2B(R3) Electronic Transmission of Individual Case Safety Reports: Data Elements and Message Specification ICH E6(R3): ICH E6(R3) Guideline for Good Clinical Practice ICH M14: ICH M14 General Principles on Planning, Designing, Analysing, and Reporting of Non-interventional Studies That Utilise Real-World Data for Safety Assessment of Medicines SPL R8: HL7 Version 3 Standard: Structured Product Labeling, Release 8 IPS: International Patient Summary HL7 v2.9.1: Health Level Seven Standard Version 2.9.1: An Application Protocol for Electronic Data Exchange in Healthcare Environments TMF Reference Model: CDISC Trial Master File Reference Model MIABIS: Minimum Information About Biobank Data Sharing SPREC: Standard PREanalytical Code ISO 20387: ISO 20387 Biobanking Requirements PDBx/mmCIF: PDBx/mmCIF Exchange Dictionary and Format FCS · MIFlowCyt · Gating-ML: Flow Cytometry Standards Stack AIRR · MiAIRR: AIRR Standards Stack HGVS: HGVS Nomenclature refget + SeqCol: GA4GH refget Sequences and Sequence Collections Beacon: GA4GH Beacon htsget: GA4GH htsget Crypt4GH: GA4GH Genetic Data Encryption Expmeta: GA4GH Experiments Metadata Checklist WGS QC: GA4GH Whole Genome Sequencing Quality Control Standards AnnData ecosystem: Single-cell and Spatial Data Ecosystem OME Model / OME-TIFF: OME Data Model and OME-TIFF 01 Start with the job Decide whether you need guidance, a domain payload, exchange, semantics, governance, or a reusable release.
02 Map lifecycle reach Use the matrix to see where each profile has a direct role. A filled cell is coverage, not a quality score.
03 Test the boundary Read what each option leaves unresolved before judging maturity or implementation fit.
Assessment
Review lifecycle coverage and practical fit. Read left to right. Lifecycle reach comes first; a maturity label never overrides a scope mismatch.
Readiness-stage coverage for W3C PROV-O Profile Plan Acquire Harmonize Exchange Learn + reuse PROV-O Ontology / data model ○ W3C PROV-O has no direct role recorded in Plan. ● W3C PROV-O has a direct role in Acquire. ● W3C PROV-O has a direct role in Harmonize. ● W3C PROV-O has a direct role in Exchange. ● W3C PROV-O has a direct role in Learn + reuse.
Stage boundary No direct role is recorded for Plan.
Known limitation The model is intentionally generic; useful provenance requires a scoped profile, identifier policy, and capture instrumentation. 03 · Detailed assessment
Check the fit and source behind the map Use the official source, version, and limitation together. A higher maturity label does not erase a scope mismatch.
Detailed comparison of W3C PROV-O Assessment PROV-O W3C PROV-O Purpose & coverage An OWL 2 ontology for interoperable provenance using entities, activities, agents, and qualified relationships.
Best fit Cross-system lineage, transformation history, audit evidence, and knowledge-graph provenance.
Readiness stages Acquire Harmonize Exchange Learn + reuse
AI-ready contribution Supports dataset and feature lineage, reproducibility, and audit, but does not define ML-specific quality or responsible-use metadata by itself. First limitation to test The model is intentionally generic; useful provenance requires a scoped profile, identifier policy, and capture instrumentation. Maturity
Stable W3C Recommendation
Sources & links W3C PROV-O Recommendation (opens in a new tab) Read full profile
Interpretation boundary
A defensible architecture usually combines several layers. No profile in this comparison makes data FAIR, AI-ready, lawful, representative, or fit for a model by itself.