Re: Suggested Concepts for Charter

Hi Simon,

I find dc:provenance is a quite interesting concept. What do you think? 
Is this covered by OPM to your expertise?

dc:provenance - a statement of any changes in ownership and custody of 
the resource since its creation that are significant for its 
authenticity, integrity, and interpretation.

cheers,

Jun

Simon Miles wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here are some terms from Dublin Core which may be considered.  They
> are those which I don't think are too specific to library collections
> and aren't directly covered in core OPM.
> 
> dc:contributor   - agent A contributed to resource R
>   e.g. "Report dc:contributor Alice" means 'The report had material
> contributed to it by Alice.'
> 
> dc:creator       - agent A created resource R
>   e.g. "Report dc:creator Alice" means 'The report was created
> (written) by Alice.'
> 
> dc:hasPart       - resource R1 has a part resource R2
>   e.g. "Report dc:hasPart DataPlot" means 'The report contains the data plot.'
> 
> dc:modified      - resource R was modified at time T
>   e.g. "Report dc:modified 12:00" means 'The report was modified
> (edited) at 12:00.'
> 
> dc:replaces      - resource R1 replaces R2 (for whatever implied use)
>   e.g. "ReportEdition2 dc:replaces ReportEdition1" means 'Edition 1 of
> the report should now be used instead of edition 2 of the report.'
> 
> Namespace used:
>   dc  = http://purl.org/dc/terms/
> 
> Thanks,
> Simon
> 
> On 22 November 2010 21:43, Paul Groth <pgroth@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As we discussed on the call from Friday last week, below is the list of
>> core concepts from OPM that we think should be in the list that goes
>> with the charter.
>>
>> I actually think there is quite a bit of overlap with the suggested
>> concepts from Jim McCusker. Also, from the mappings activity, we know
>> these overlap with most of the provenance ontologies.
>>
>> If no one objects, I would like to put all the concepts we are all
>> sending to the mailing list on the wiki and start to group them together.
>>
>> Does that sound good to everyone?
>>
>> Comments are appreciated especially if any concept is thought to be
>> unnecessary. I'm looking forward to seeing the proposed concepts from
>> everyone else.
>>
>> Hopefully, we can reach a consensus soon.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> Suggest Concepts from OPM
>> We use opm: as a short cut for open provenance model.
>>
>> Graph:
>> - opm:OPMGraph
>> Definition: a provenance graph is defined to be a record of a past execution
>> Example: Bob's Website Factory  provides proof in the form of a
>> provenance graph that the contract was executed as agreed.
>>
>> - opm:Account
>> Definition: An account of the some past execution. Accounts offer
>> different levels of explanation for the same execution
>> Example: Bob's Website Factory and Customers Inc both provide two
>> different and conflicting sets of information (i.e. accounts) describing
>> the provenance of the production of the the same website.
>>
>>
>> Nodes:
>> - opm:Artifact
>> Definition: Immutable piece of state, which may have a physical
>> embodiment in a physical object, or a digital representation in a
>> computer system.
>> Example: BlogAgg would like to know the state of an image before and
>> after modification to see if it was modified appropriately
>>
>>
>> - opm:Process
>> Definition: Action or series of actions performed on or depend upon
>> artifacts, and resulting in new artifacts.
>> Example:  Alice collects data from public sources and "natural
>> experiment" data. Alice then processes and interprets the results and
>> writes a report summarizing the conclusions. All these steps should be
>> captured.
>>
>> - opm:Agent (*1)
>> Definition: Contextual entity acting as a catalyst of a process,
>> enabling, facilitating, controlling, or affecting its execution.
>> Example: Alice starts and facilities the tool SPSS when doing data analysis.
>>
>>
>> Edges:
>> - opm:Time (*2)
>> Example: BlogAgg wants to find the correct originator of the microblog
>> who first got the word out.
>>
>> - opm:Role
>> Definition: A role designates an artifact’s or agent’s function in a process
>> Example: Whether a data file was used as a training or test data set
>> when running machine learning algorithms.
>>
>> - opm:Used, opm:UsedStar
>> Definition: property to express that an artifact was used by a process.
>> Example: The panda image was used by BlogAgg to generate a thumbnail image.
>>
>> - opm:WasGeneratedBy, opm:WasGeneratedByStar,
>> Definition: property to express that an artifact was generated by a process.
>> Example: A thumbnail image was generated by Blog Agg using the panda image.
>>
>> - opm:WasControlledBy (*1)
>> Definition : property to express that a process was controlled an agent.
>> Example: SPSS was controlled by Alice.
>>
>> - opm:WasDerivedFrom, opm:WasDerivedFromStar,
>> Definition: property to express that an artifact was derived from
>> another artifact.
>> Example: The thumbnail image was derived from the panda image.
>>
>> - opm:WasTriggeredBy
>> Definition: property to express that a process was triggered by another
>> process.
>> Example: Report writing was triggered by the interpretation of results.
>>
>>
>> Extensibility (*3):
>> - Some form of annotation, based on predicate-value pairs.
>> Example: The data is of type a customer sales records. The data has size
>> 100 megabytes.
>>
>> - Profile mechanisms, including common types, common annotations,
>>   and common graph templates
>> Example: The image has a creative commons attribution license. This
>> pattern represents the exchange of messages in the http protocol.
>>
>>
>> (*) indicates terms that require refinement
>> (*1) Requires better, stricter guidelines for better inter-operabiltiy
>> (*2) To be better aligned on Time ontology
>> (*3) To be better specified to facilitate extensibility and to
>>     be better aligned with RDF-like annotations
>>
>>
>>
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