Re: whine about dctypes:Software

Hi Bob, Paolo,

Yes, we had the exact same discussion last week :) The conclusion was that
the inference of Agent-ness can be drawn based on the range of
oa:annotatedBy / oa:serializedBy, or the domain of the various foaf
properties.  So requiring the assertion to be explicit was unnecessary.

The options seem to be:
* Status quo, but make it explicit in the description of the Provenance
Agents section
* Create our own SoftwareAgent subClass of foaf:Agent
* Convince Dan to add one to foaf

Dan?

Rob

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Paolo Ciccarese
<paolo.ciccarese@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> we have been discussing that issues when we picked that type
> and we felt a little uncomfortable as well.
>
> In the past, personally, I've been extending FOAF with some classes and
> properties.
> That is the other option I see. It would be our class though.
>
> Paolo
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Bob Morris <morris.bob@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I guess this issue is in the current core also.
>>
>> In http://www.openannotation.org/spec/future/core.html#ProvAgents it
>> is proposed that dctypes:Software be used to type a software agent.
>> One problem is that dctypesSoftware is not a subtype of foaf:Agent,
>> thereby requiring(?) that a foaf:Agent type also be asserted on any
>> Agent of type dctype:Software.
>>
>> I don't find this inherently improper, but I'm uncomfortable about an
>> asymmetry between the Person and Software cases. I don't have a better
>> idea though, and wonder why the FOAF community hasn't offered such a
>> subclass.
>>
>> We also would often need to have Software as the object of
>> oa:annotatedBy.  In addition to humans, we have Kepler workflows
>> producing annotations autonomously.
>>
>> Bob Morris
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