- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:29:43 +0000
- To: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- CC: public-prov-wg@w3.org
Luc, comment below... On 22/12/2011 16:40, Luc Moreau wrote: > Hi James, > > Thanks for drafting the semantics, it will help us pin down issues in > the data model. > > I have a few general questions first, about the alignment of the > semantics and the data model. > > As agreed in the call, I am sharing them by email. > > 1. PROV-DM identifies three levels > 1. things in the world > 2. entities, which are characterized things > 3. entity records, which are the records we create as part of a provenance record > It seems that things are not mentioned in your document. I believe they are > important to define specialization/alternates My discussions with Paolo about viewOf/specializationOf/complementOf suggest to me that there may be no clear formal distinction between things and entities, and that the notion of things (aka "Real World Things"?) is mainly a rhetorical device to explain the intent of the relationships. An alternative might be to note that "things" are those "entities" that are not themselves views (or specializations) of any other entity. But I'm not sure that such a definition actually has any utility. #g --
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