- From: Khalid Belhajjame <Khalid.Belhajjame@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:58:12 +0000
- To: Provenance Working Group <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
- CC: Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org>
On 06/02/2012 21:01, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: > PROV-ISSUE-237 (TLebo): Rename Relation to Involvement [prov-dm] > > http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/237 > > Raised by: Timothy Lebo > On product: prov-dm > > I propose to rename "Relation" in PROV-DM to "Involvement" because "Relation" is too broad and a provenance interchange should limit itself to how agents, activities, and entities were involved with one another as the lead to some result. > > Relations other than involvements should be out of scope for provenance interchange (and seem to be already be handled with the attribute-values). Not sure I would agree with this. One may argue that the notion of involvement does not really applies to relations such as derivation. I know that in provo-o involvement is used even for derivation, but we did so for pragmatic reasons, namely for mapping n-ary relation to owl. Thanks, khalid
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