Re: Where should "Provenance" go?

On Mon 26 Sep 2011 22:04:07 CEST, John Erickson wrote:
> Grouping 'Provenance" with "Versioning" probably makes the most sense,
> as long as we agree that they are not the same thing ;)
They are indeed two different, but not unrelated, things and I would 
argue it's a reason for not putting them together. Why not just keeping 
provenance into the vocabulary discussion? Seemed to be a reasonable 
setup.

During our last call "pragmatic provenance" was mentionned as, if I 
remember correctly, enough provenance information to help govs know 
where the data come from and state the licence of theirs. This could be 
addressed by picking up the related ontology terms. Depending how we 
concretely use the keyword "pragmatic", even a limited subset of the 
provenance ontology(ies) may be necessary.

That said, nothing prevents the "Versioning" part to also use the 
result from the provenance WG if they produce some recommendations that 
are usefull to track versioning of data sets. If so, provenance would 
be added to both Vocabularies and Versioning ;-)

Christophe

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