Re: Comment on http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/tip/ontology/ProvenanceOntology.owl

Dear Alan,

Thanks for your comments. We have entered it into in our tracker as
ISSUE-552. You can check on our internal discussion at
https://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/552

As to not bombard you with emails, we'll discuss this internally and
get back to your either with clarification questions or hopefully a
resolution of the issue.

Thanks for taking the time to look at prov.
Paul

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Alan Ruttenberg
<alanruttenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
> The definition of Quotation includes "Quotation is a particular case of
> derivation.". However Quotation is not a subclass of Derivation, which is
> what the english would imply. A better wording, assuming I understand the
> current english would be: "Quotation is a kind of derivation".
>
> On quick glance (I will try to submit a more detailed report) there are a
> number of cases where the subclass relation is not used in a way that seems
> consistent with the definition. For example:
>
> Influence:
>
> Influence is the capacity an entity, activity, or agent to have an effect on
> the character, development, or behavior of another by means of usage, start,
> end, generation, invalidation, communication, derivation, attribution,
> association, or delegation.
>
> Subclass,
>
> Entity influence:
>
> EntityInfluence provides additional descriptions of an Entity's binary
> influence upon any other kind of resource. Instances of EntityInfluence use
> the prov:entity property to cite the influencing Entity.
>
> Subclass:
>
> Start:
> Start is when an activity is deemed to have started. The activity did not
> exist before its start. Any usage or generation involving an activity
> follows the activity's start. A start may refer to an entity, known as
> trigger, that set off the activity, or to an activity, known as starter,
> that generated the trigger.
>
> ---
>
> So an influence is a capacity, an entity influence is a provider (of
> descriptions) and a start is a "when" (a time). None of these are subclasses
> of the other in the general understanding of the english terms.
>
> -Alan



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