Re: thoughts and some refs about AFS-2 UC

On Mar 19, 2004, at 8:57 AM, Patrick Stickler wrote:

>
> On Mar 18, 2004, at 18:30, ext Alberto Reggiori wrote:
>
>> ... To tackle the provenance aspect/problem instead, I would expect 
>> such systems to explicitly flag/annotate their CBDs with some 
>> authoritative information about the source providing the the answer. 
>> Even so, it is not clear to me how today solutions like Joseki/URIQA 
>> solves this problem though.
>>
>> Any thoughts about this?
>
> Jeremy Carroll, Chris Bizer, Pat Hayes, and I have been working on an 
> approach
> to address such issues -- concerning named graphs, signatures, and 
> authentication.
> We are working to get a paper completed.

thanks!

>
> To properly address such concerns, you have to (in our opinion) add a 
> little bit
> of extra machinery and augment the RDF MT -- so given the presumption 
> that what
> the DAWG comes up with should sync with the latest RDF/OWL specs, that 
> could put
> it out of scope.

well - not sure - perhaps need to discuss this once we have got a 
clearer picture of the story here - I would rather need instead such a 
feature :-)

provenance/attributions seem to be a key aspect to consider for the 
success of the whole RDF and associated query languages stuff - anybody 
else agree on this?

Alberto