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Re: concept illustrations for the data journalism example

From: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 09:32:08 +0100
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On 12/05/11 09:16, Paul Groth wrote:
>
>> 3.) Processing step 7 says "government (gov) publishes an update (d2) of
>> data (d1) as a new Web resource (r2)". That's inconsistent with 
>> processing
>> steps 1 and 3 where gov publishes a Web resource r1 with RDF data f1
>> generated from d1. Question: Was it the intention that gov now publishes
>> d2 directly; wouldn't it be more consistent if gov were publishing RDF
>> data f2 which was obtained from d2?
> Yes, I think this is an error. The government was supposed to follow 
> the same steps in both cases just for consistency.

Again, provenance is not supposed to always describe all the steps.  The 
presentation
was a bit shortened (probably due to the laziness of the authors ;-), 
but is still acceptable
provenance.  The detailed version makes explicit the succession d2  f2  r2

Luc
Received on Thursday, 12 May 2011 08:35:02 GMT

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