Re: Provenance for section 3 in technologies.tex

This looks pretty good, Mark!

Might need to explode the definition of "provenance" in this context --- here
you imply *some* definition of whereItCameFrom and whoAuthoredIt, but there
might in fact be domain-specific definitions of "provenance objects" (i.e.
aggregations of provenance-informing properties that are useful to a
*particular* community).

John

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From: "Butler, Mark" <Mark_Butler@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 11:38 AM
Subject: Provenance for section 3 in technologies.tex


>
> Some proposed text to describe metadata provenance in section 3 - any
> comments?
>
> Metadata provenance: One of the key differences between the Semantic Web and
> pre-existing systems is that the Semantic Web relies on using metadata from
> many disparate sources, rather than having a centrally managed store of
> metadata information. This means it is important to consider the provenance
> of the metadata i.e. where it came from and who authored it. This
> information is important because it enables the system processing the
> metadata to make decisions about how to use it, for example if it possesses
> several varying versions of metadata about the same object. In order to
> guarantee provenance it may be necessary to use additional technologies e.g.
> cryptographically ensure that the originator information is correct and that
> the metadata has not been tampered with. Once the metadata has been ingested
> by the system, the system can also make choices about how to represent the
> provenance information e.g. by reifying individual statements or whether
> adopting representations like quads that record the origin of individual
> statements. Note that the usage of the term provenance is quite different to
> its usage in the library community where it is used to refer to the record
> of ownership of the item described by the metadata.
>
>

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