Publishing provenance information on the web using the memento datetime content negotiation

In Belgium, we developed a digital long-term preservation archive to preserve the information from our heritage institutions. This platform harvests the information from the institutions, preserves the information for the long term and disseminates the information as Linked Open Data. Our platform produces many different versions of the harvested data to keep the information accessible over time when, e.g., mapping the metadata or transcoding the multimedia files, but it also produces a lot of provenance information relating all those different versions of a resource. For publishing this information as Linked Open Data, we extended our Linked Open Data server with Memento datetime content negotiation. Next to this, we extended the Memento framework to also publish the provenance information of those datetime content negotiated versions using an HTTP provenance link header for automatic discovery of the provenance information. This way, our framework allows to publish the information of a resource as Linked Open Data, including all its previous versions and their provenance information, in a web-accessible manner