- From: Nigam Haresh Shah <nigam@stanford.edu>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:20:21 -0800
- To: "Kashyap, Vipul" <VKASHYAP1@PARTNERS.ORG>
- Cc: Trish Whetzel <whetzel@pcbi.upenn.edu>, kc28 <kei.cheung@yale.edu>, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>, w3c semweb hcls <public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org>
> I too, am not clear about the use case for instance versioning? So if > "Tom" > is an instance of the class "Person", what does it mean to have multiple > versions of Tom? Maybe there are some use cases that make sense in the > lifesciences context? > > ---Vipul Have an example for this one: If the instance is of a the class "Tumor" then on giving treatment it changes in size, shape etc, and might ultimately disappear. On each visit we are observing a different version of the tumor instance [in Tom]. Regards, Nigam.
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