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Web pages are regularly constructed through combining content from multiple providers (e.g. photos from Flickr, quotes from the New York Times). As a result, it is often difficult for users and programmers to retrieve the provenance of a web page. Here, we present a JavaScript library, ProvenanceJS, that allows for the retrieval and visualization of the provenance information within a Web page and its embedded content. A key contribution is to demonstrate that provenance can be supported using widely deployed browser-based technologies.
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Groth, P. (2010). ProvenanceJS: Revealing the Provenance of Web Pages. In: McGuinness, D.L., Michaelis, J.R., Moreau, L. (eds) Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes. IPAW 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6378. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17819-1_34
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