Re: Using PROV to express conformance results

Hi Andrea,
a prov:Plan is defined as a "an entity that represents a set of actions or
steps intended by one or more agents to achieve some goals". A plan is
something like a recipe, and to me, a w3c standard doesn't look like it, is
more a set of rules.
Best,
Daniel

2015-05-08 15:44 GMT+02:00 Andrea Perego <andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu>:

> Thanks a lot again, Daniel.
>
> Please find my comments inline.
>
> On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Daniel Garijo
> <dgarijo@delicias.dia.fi.upm.es> wrote:
> > Hi Andrea,
> > I'm not sure if using dct:conformsTo is a nice idea here. If you see the
> > range of that property
> > (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-conformsTo), it is an
> > "established Standard". I don't think that any test case could be
> considered
> > an established standard. IMO, this property is meant to be used with
> > something like "this xml document conforms to the XML standard"
> (:document
> > dct:conformsTo <http://www.w3.org/XML/> (or the URL you want to use to
> refer
> > to XML as a resource)).
>
> Actually, the definition of dct:Standard (the range of dct:conformsTo)
> is broader:
>
> [[
> A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things
> can be evaluated.
> ]]
>
> (http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-Standard)
>
> In my understanding, this covers specifications (possibly including
> test cases) which have not been necessarily released by a
> standardisation body.
>
> Said that, the use of done of dct:conformsTo in DCAT-AP and GeoDCAT-AP
> is to link to a specification like, as you say, the one describing
> XML, and not to a set of test cases.
>
> > Asserting that a document passes a given test is out of the scope of
> PROV.
> > However, PROV could be used to say that a result was generated by
> executing
> > a testing activity that was associated with the conformance test as a
> plan
> > and used the given resource as input:
> >
> > :testing_activity
> >    a prov:Activity;
> >    prov:used :givenResource;
> >    prov:wasAssociatedWith :agentWhoExecutedTheTest;
> >    prov:qualifiedAssociation [
> >       a prov:Association;
> >       prov:agent   :agentWhoExecutedTheTest;
> >       prov:hadPlan :conformance_test;
> >    ];
> > .
> > :result
> >    a prov:Entity;
> >    prov:wasGeneratedBy :testingActivity.
> >
> > :conformance_test
> >    a prov:Plan, prov:Entity;
> >    rdfs:comment "Unitary test 12331."@en;
> > .
> >
> > Would that help?
>
> Thanks a lot, Daniel.
>
> May I ask if prov:hadPlan could be used also to link to the reference
> specification (e.g., the XML W3C Recommendation) and not only to the
> set of test cases carried out?
>
> Best,
>
> Andrea
>
>