Could someone work through this example and add it to http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/PROV_examples ? Thanks, Tim On Jan 27, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Paul Groth wrote: > Hi all, > > I thought I would take a go at modeling part of MacTed's provenance of provenance example. > > Here's the description "i have a table, built in 1727 by joe smith ..." I would model this in prov dm as: > > entity(table) > wasGeneratedBy(table, built, 1727) > activity(built) > wasAssociatedWith(built,joe smith) > > Now to talk about the provenance of that provenance (generated by an email activity), I think I would do the following: > > acccount(acc1, > entity(table) > wasGeneratedBy(table, built, 1727) > activity(built) > wasAssociatedWith(built,joe smith) > ) > > entity(acc_entity_id, [perspectiveOn=acc1]) > wasGeneratedBy(acc_entity_id, emailing) > > To me we can't just say > > wasGeneratedBy(acc1, emailing) because the account may change and also different people may take different perspectives on the account. So we need to do a "freezing" operation thus making it into an entity. Then we can talk about it's provenance. > > Thoughts? > Paul > >Received on Sunday, 4 March 2012 18:38:10 UTC
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