Supported data formats
Which event-data formats Promenade reads today, and how they map onto conventional and object-centric analysis.
Promenade reads two families of event data:
Conventional (case-based) event logs
- XES (
.xes,.xes.gz) — the IEEE standard interchange format. Read natively, including standard extensions (concept, time, lifecycle, organizational). - CSV — mapped to case/activity/timestamp via a guided importer, with remaining columns kept as event or case attributes.
Object-centric event data
- OCEL 2 — both the JSON and SQLite serializations. Object types, event types, objects, and qualified event-to-object and object-to-object relationships are all read.
A conventional log can be treated as a degenerate object-centric log with one object type; an object-centric log can be flattened onto a chosen object type to get a conventional, single-case view. Promenade supports both directions, so a comparison between case-based and object-centric analysis of the same underlying process doesn’t require re-importing the data twice.
What isn’t supported yet
Older object-centric formats that predate OCEL 2 (OCEL 1.0, and ad hoc “artifact-centric” export formats used in earlier research prototypes) are not read directly. If you have data in one of those formats, converting to OCEL 2 first is the current recommended path — the OCEL project publishes conversion notes at ocel-standard.org.