Re: PROV-ISSUE-239 (TLebo): is wasGeneratedBy(e) meaningful? [prov-dm]

The activity should not be optional, surely?

-Paolo

On 2/6/12 9:19 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
> PROV-ISSUE-239 (TLebo): is wasGeneratedBy(e) meaningful? [prov-dm]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/239
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> Raised by: Timothy Lebo
> On product: prov-dm
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> Everything but entity is OPTIONAL in wasGeneratedBy.
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> If I say only wasGeneratedBy(e), what did I say? And why was I allowed to say it?
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> from WD3:
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> A generation record, written wasGeneratedBy(id,e,a,t,attrs) in PROV-ASN, has the following components:
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>      id: an optional identifier id identifying the generation record;
>      entity: an identifier e identifying an entity record that represents the entity that is created;
>      activity: an optional identifier a identifying an activity record that represents the activity that creates the entity;
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Received on Monday, 6 February 2012 23:02:06 UTC