RE: PROV-ISSUE-47 (third-party-provenance): How to obtain provenance from a third party known by the user [Accessing and Querying Provenance]

The Link header allows the specification of an anchor that provides the context for the relationship [1]. This is used state what the relationship is associated with. So may be possible to specify the BOB-identifier as part of that. By default, when the anchor is omitted, the link refers to the current document.
e.g.
Link: provenance-URI; rel="provenance"; anchor="bob-uri"

This has the added advantage of returning the provenance URIs for multiple documents in the same HTTP response.

While HTML4's link tag [2] is semantically equivalent to the HTTP Link header [3], it is not clear what the corresponding attribute for 'anchor' is in HTML.

--Yogesh

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#section-5.2
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.3
[3] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#appendix-A


| -----Original Message-----
| From: public-prov-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-prov-wg-request@w3.org]
| On Behalf Of Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker
| Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 2:03 AM
| To: public-prov-wg@w3.org
| Subject: PROV-ISSUE-47 (third-party-provenance): How to obtain provenance from
| a third party known by the user [Accessing and Querying Provenance]
| 
| 
| PROV-ISSUE-47 (third-party-provenance): How to obtain provenance from a third
| party known by the user [Accessing and Querying Provenance]
| 
| http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/47
| 
| Raised by: Luc Moreau
| On product: Accessing and Querying Provenance
| 
| I don't understand how the proposal allows us to address
| http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ProvenanceAccessScenario.
| 
| Specifically, I consider the case where the user wants to access provenance from a
| third-party they know (e.g. a favorite consumer group).
| 
| Using section 3, I can obtain one or more provenance-uris, which are known from
| the responding server or the document creator.
| 
| If my third-party is not known by the responding server or document creator, I have
| no mechanism to obtain a provenance-uri since I don't have have an identifier for
| the document I currently hold.
| 
| A solution could be: we need a BOB-identifier to be passed around (as suggested in
| ISSUE-46) and a mechanism that resolves a BOB-identifier to provenance-uri.
| 
|

Received on Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:33:39 UTC