- From: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:04:31 +0100
- To: public-prov-wg@w3.org
Hi Jim and Graham That's exactly what the current draft does! We just need to find a name for BOB. Luc On 07/21/2011 04:23 PM, Jim McCusker wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Graham Klyne<graham.klyne@zoo.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > >> The overall thrust of my view is that: >> >> (a) we want fewer classes, not more (no separate classes for "bob", >> "state") >> (b) a minimal model based on the relationships between entities rather than >> trying to fully ontologize the domain >> (c) that "bob"s should be indentifiable, but not necessarily identified. >> > That's one reason why I'm trying to push on having just Entities and > Descriptions of Entities (which evolved into BOBs). Descriptions of > Entities are bounded by time, space and/or context, and the > descriptions are fixed, considered "good" within the bounds of the > description. The Entities themselves exist outside of those bounds, > and therefore can change at any time. Since we are attempting to > describe changing entities using a monotonic language, we need to > qualify those descriptions, and keep them separate from the entities > themselves. > > Jim > -- > Jim McCusker > Programmer Analyst > Krauthammer Lab, Pathology Informatics > Yale School of Medicine > james.mccusker@yale.edu | (203) 785-6330 > http://krauthammerlab.med.yale.edu > > PhD Student > Tetherless World Constellation > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > mccusj@cs.rpi.edu > http://tw.rpi.edu > > -- Professor Luc Moreau Electronics and Computer Science tel: +44 23 8059 4487 University of Southampton fax: +44 23 8059 2865 Southampton SO17 1BJ email: l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk United Kingdom http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm
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