Re: Provenance Working Group resolution ISSUE-447 and ISSUE-500 (subactivity)

Hi Satra,

We put a simple statement in our FAQ here:
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/PROV-FAQ but I think you are looking
for a bit more guidance. What else would help?

In terms of standardising workflow languages there's BPEL and XPDL and
I'm sure a bunch of others. Maybe someone else on the list can
comment.

Thanks
Paul

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:01 PM, Satrajit Ghosh <satra@mit.edu> wrote:
> dear paul,
>
> thank you for the update.
>
>> ISSUE-447 (subactivity)
>>
>> Original email:
>> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-prov-comments/2012Jul/0003.html
>>
>> Tracker: http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/447
>>
>> Group Response
>>
>> - The Working Group charter identified an initial set of concepts, and
>> made it clear that the working group should not delve into the details
>> of plans and workflows (called then recipe). The charter did not list
>> a notion of subactivity either.
>
>
> i understand trying to stay away from plans and workflows and possibly not
> relive the uml discussions. however, even in a simple context activities are
> typically related to each other in a provenance sense, and while time covers
> some aspect of that, it doesn't in anyway cover sub-activities.
>
>>
>> - The Working Group considered a notion of subactivity, but does not
>> understand the implication of introducing such a relation to the
>> model. In fact, there is little prior art about this in the provenance
>> community. There is also concern that specifying such a relation would
>> overlap with some workflow specification initiatives.
>
>
> that's what i was hoping a simple relation such as wasRelatedTo(a1, a2, --)
> would cover this and one that could then be decorated by dcterms:hasPart,
> partOf, etc.,.
>
> also i would love to know about the workflow specification initiatives. as
> an architect of a workflow framework for brain imaging, standardizing that
> effort would be quite useful.
>
>>
>> - For this reason, the Working Group decided not to provide a
>> normative definition of such a relation. Instead, the Working Group
>> suggests that a relation such as dcterms:hadPart could used by
>> applications, which would be responsible for ensuring its use is
>> consistent with the model.
>>
>>
>> - The Working Group intends to produce an FAQ page illustrating how
>> such a construct could be used.
>
>
> really looking forward to this faq, especially where it can capture such
> relations as partOf.
>
> cheers,
>
> satra



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