[owl changed] Re: PROV-ISSUE-369 (drop-startByActivity): Should we drop wasStartedByActivity? [prov-dm]

I've updated the OWL to reflect this removal.

http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/rev/4a589776bff9

-Tim


On May 15, 2012, at 9:55 AM, Luc Moreau wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> We have agreed [1] to drop this concept.  Change is already implemented. I am now closing this issue.
> 
> Regards,
> Luc
> 
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/meeting/2012-05-10#resolution_3
> 
> On 04/30/2012 11:57 AM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
>> PROV-ISSUE-369 (drop-startByActivity): Should we drop wasStartedByActivity? [prov-dm]
>> 
>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/369
>> 
>> Raised by: Luc Moreau
>> On product: prov-dm
>> 
>> 
>> There are regular comments about wasStartedByActivity.
>> 
>> MacTed was saying why don't we also have wasStartedByAgent.
>> 
>> Someone else  was saying, why don't we have wasEndedByActivity? ... and ByAgent.
>> 
>> In the spirit of simplification, we could drop the concept.
>> Whenever we want to write
>> 
>> wasStartedByActivity(a2,a2)
>> 
>> we would instead have to write
>> 
>> wasStartedBy(a2,e)
>> wasGeneratedBy(e,a1)
>> 
>> for some entity.
>> 
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> Luc
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>   
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