Virtual Process Dossier: A Process-Aware Data Catalogue
Abstract
We propose the Virtual Process Dossier (VPD), a Knowledge Graph-based data catalogue that also captures workflow provenance. We developed VPD for multi-stage manufacturing use-cases where downstream AI-based optimization tasks require to distinct between datasets generated during individual workflow steps. VPD provides these datasets in a FAIR manner and makes both prospective and retrospective workflow provenance explicit. Our contributions are: (1) the VPD ontology that serves as the catalogue's semantic core; (2) the VPD provenance framework that integrates ontology instantiation into the production environment; and (3) the VPD user interface that provides human-centered interaction with the VPD Knowledge Graph. The ontology and code are available at https://github.com/kubeluk/VirtualProcessDossier .
Cite
@article{arxiv.2607.27840,
title = {Virtual Process Dossier: A Process-Aware Data Catalogue},
author = {Lukas Kubelka and Alexander Bott and Frank Döhner and Saksham Kiroriwal and Georg Zeeb and Julia Butte and Julius Pfrommer and Jürgen Beyerer and Tobias Käfer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.27840},
year = {2026}
}