Linked data workflow project ontology

The creation, production, and reproduction of linked data datasets are not trivial activities. Substantial efforts and resources are consumed during a workflow execution. It is suitable that these efforts should be planned, based on a development process, and performed in a systematic way. This paper presents the Linked Data Workflow Project Ontology, a lightweight ontology for modeling the method, plan, and execution aspects for linked data dataset production and maintenance. Being charac-terized as applied research, methodologically, the development of this ontology was conducted based on a set of best practices Ontology Engineering. As an immediate result, the Linked Data Workflow Pro-ject Ontology is already used for preserving the historical data of the Qualis Index in Web of Data as linked open data. Facing these efforts, it is concluded that the developed ontology allows: a) the de-scription of workflows as plans for producing linked data datasets; b) the support to the automatization of those workflows; c) the reuse of plans over time, as consequence, facilitating the reproducibility e repeatability of linked data datasets; and d) the documentation of plans and executions of the work-flows, promoting the provenance on producing linked data datasets.