In this paper we present an architecture for provenance policies which can be used to describe and enact behavioural constraints in a system in order to ensure compliance with user and organisational policies. We discuss how this architecture has been used in order to manage the behaviour of the services powering an existing virtual research environment while reasoning about the relationships between users, their social network, their roles in a project, their groups and the provenance of research data.

We also require a generic model of provenance The Web has evolved from a collection of hyperlinked documents in order to support the diverse ecosystem of sensor to a complex ecosystem of interconnected documents, platforms and data. We have investigated a number of existing services and devices. Due to the inherent open nature of the models for representing provenance information but Web, data can be published by anyone or any'thing'. As a found many of these to be tailored to specific domains result of this, there is enormous variation in the quality of (e.g.