- From: James Cheney <jcheney@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 12:01:16 +0000
- To: Provenance Working Group WG <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <B54FA643-C875-46F6-9B2E-D70BC67EA9B6@inf.ed.ac.uk>
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0 - I think either "expression" or "record" is fine. "Statement" would also be fine - in my view these are closer to declarative statements than "expressions" that you'd evaluate in a programming language. "Record" might be confusing if the entities are also records, but this is true for "expression" and "statement" too. --James > > On 10/28/2011 03:17 PM, Luc Moreau wrote: >> >> >> >> Dear all, >> >> In the interest of simplification, we would like to make the following >> proposal about terminology in prov-dm. >> >> The context: >> >> Following this week's call, the prov-dm document will introduce >> concepts such as entity and activity in section 2, and define 'entity >> expression' and 'activity expression' in section 5. In section 5 (see >> table of contents of [1]), all terms of the data model have been >> suffixed by the suffix 'expression', which allows us to distinguish >> terms of the data model (i.e. what we say in provenance records) from >> the things in the world. >> >> >> The problem: >> >> While this distinction is important, the choice of word is not ideal. >> The suffix 'expression' has a strong connotation of language, and the reader may >> think that we talk about expressions in the abstract syntax notation. >> It's not the case! We really mean elements of the data model. >> >> Proposal: >> Rename 'Entity Expression' into 'Entity Record'; similarly, rename 'XXX Expression' into 'XXX Record'. >> >> Can you please express your support for this proposal by Wednesday >> midnight GMT, and we will confirm it at the next teleconference. >> >> Luc >> >> [1] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/ProvenanceModel.html >> >> > > -- > Professor Luc Moreau > Electronics and Computer Science tel: +44 23 8059 4487 > University of Southampton fax: +44 23 8059 2865 > Southampton SO17 1BJ email: l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk > United Kingdom http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm
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