- From: Stian Soiland-Reyes <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:06:17 +0000
- To: Jim McCusker <mccusj@rpi.edu>
- Cc: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, public-prov-wg@w3.org
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 17:27, Jim McCusker <mccusj@rpi.edu> wrote: > I'm not sure why this is a requirement. This greatly complicates > representations in RDF. Rather than saying: > > :writingThisEmail prov:wasControlledBy rpi:JimMcCusker. > > I would have to say: > > :writingThisEmail prov:wasControlledBy :jim. > :jim prov:identifier rpi:JimMcCusker. no, rpi:JimMcCusker is already a characterisation of a thing in the world (you), and hence is also an entity. You are a person, not a URI, but rpi:JimMcCusker is one (characterised) way to talk about you as a person. This characterisation - even if not expressed - will always be bounded, for instance it probably does not characterize "you" before you were conceived, and it probably does not include the car you are driving today. Basically any existing URI can be said to be an entity, because by their nature they characterize something. (This is also an argument that nothing can be disjoint from prov:Entity - but that's a separate issue) -- Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team School of Computer Science The University of Manchester
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