Re: PROV-ISSUE-549: XML Schema Bundle vs. NamedBundle [XML Serialization]

Hi Luc,

I'm curious what was the rationale for not wanting arbitrary levels of
nesting of bundles?

In scientific workflows, nested workflows provide a useful mechanism to
hide the level of detail at arbitrary levels. Wouldn't that be
conceptually similar to arbitrary levels of nested bundles?

Following example 39 in
http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/#anexample-provenance-of-provenance
I can see that not having arbitrary levels of bundle nesting would keep
the provenance of provenance simpler, say, to capturing first order
observations.


--Hook

  




On 9/10/12 9:36 AM, "Luc Moreau" <l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

>Hi Curt,
>
>Following discussion in prov-constraints/prov-n, we are going to rename
>the toplevel bundle
>a prov document, wheres the bundle (named set of statements) should
>remain bundle.
>
>If we follow the same terminology, old:NamedBundle should become
>new:Bundle
>and old:Bundle should become new:Document.
>
>BTW Your suggestion would allow arbitrary levels of nesting of bundles,
>which we don't want.
>
>
>Cheers,
>Luc
>
>
>On 09/10/2012 05:32 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
>> PROV-ISSUE-549: XML Schema Bundle vs. NamedBundle [XML Serialization]
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/549
>>
>> Raised by: Curt Tilmes
>> On product: XML Serialization
>>
>> What is the rationale for distinguishing Bundle vs. NamedBundle in the
>> current XSD Schema?
>>
>> Why not just have an optional prov:id on Bundle and just have one type?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
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