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The World Wide Web is perhaps the most transformative technology which is reshaping business, media, entertainment, and society in many ways. But for all its power, it is just now being tapped to transform education. The web is the enabler to e-Learning, wherein the learners are linked to virtual campuses extracting their knowledge based information from any corner of the World. Rather than fetching the ambiguous data from repository, it is required, that the data be trustable and semantically valid. The growing need for communication, visualization and organization technologies in the field of elearning environments has led to the demand of semantically structured and trustable information. In an efficient functioning of any e-Learning system, the data provenance aspect has to be very closely integrated during the development phase.

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The Semantic Web (SW) may be represented as it is advancement of the web; it is specifically conspired to describe information in a specific manner, which machine can understand easily. In this context the ‘object’ or “resource” derived from web must be a unique as Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). Ontologies are used to establish the relationships between objects. Trust or provenance plays important role in the semantic web. Trust defines the merit by which a user considers authenticity of the documents. Semantic web refers the credibility, reliability and tustability of the data in the given context. It is necessary to observe and differentiate trusted data points from entrusted ones. [8]. User has to take decision regarding selection of the documents based on considering all the parameters of trust, whether given information is reliable or not. The documents available in the web in which users put a new set of problems every time and need to obtain the solution exactly trustworthy.