- From: Reza B'Far <reza.bfar@oracle.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:52:55 -0700
- To: public-prov-wg@w3.org
I second the term "Snapshot". This term also has functional usage in several commercial application categories used within roughly the same meaning. On 7/24/11 3:45 AM, Khalid Belhajjame wrote: > > Hi Stephan, > > Given the example you gave in your previous email, I think that > "EntitySpanshot" or "Snapshot" should be fine, given that it reflect the fact > that it is a description of an entity that holds for some period of time. > > Do you agree? > > khalid > > On 23/07/2011 20:24, Stephan Zednik wrote: >> I do not feel that EntityInstance, EntityInstantiation, or InstantiatedEntity >> make sense for the book ownership scenario, or any scenario modeling the >> provenance of changes in characteristics of a physical object. >> >> To reiterate the example since I haven't committed it to a wiki page yet. >> Book X is an entity that represents a real world object. It can be put on a >> shelf, loaned to friends, damaged, and/or destroyed. It has important >> characteristics (condition, ownership, location, etc) that may change over >> the life of the book. We may want to represent the provenance of the book as >> a chain of ownership. >> >> |<----------------------------------------------------- Book X >> ----------------------------------------------------------------->| >> |<!------ Book X with owner A ---->|<----Book X with owner B ---->|<---- Book >> X with owner A --------->| >> >> If a book changes ownership, is the "book with changed ownership" a different >> EntityInstance? A different InstantiatedEntity? I don't think what we >> current call a BOB is an 'instance of' anything. I think of it as a >> description of an entity that holds for some time period (not necessarily >> given) for which contextually important mutable characteristics of the the >> entity are held to be known. >> >> --Stephan >> >> On 7/22/2011 5:29 AM, Curt Tilmes wrote: >>> On 07/22/2011 03:43 AM, Khalid Belhajjame wrote: >>>> The term "Snapshot" was suggested some time ago, and it seems that >>>> several people did like it. >>>> We can also use the term "EntitySnapshot". >>> >>> Following from snapshot: >>> >>> EntityInstance >>> EntityInstantiation >>> InstantiatedEntity >>> >>> Curt >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > >
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