- From: Daniel Garijo <dgarijo@delicias.dia.fi.upm.es>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:01:37 +0200
- To: Stephan Zednik <zednis@rpi.edu>
- Cc: public-prov-wg@w3.org
- Message-ID: <CAExK0Dcp8uKUosBaX6wLxsVntyKuK0QXxvvHSbw+uLy4tRND0Q@mail.gmail.com>
Since both Stephan and Jim have used "description of an entity in their informal definition of a BOB, maybe EntityDescription?... (or TemporalEntityDescription, ConstrainedEntityDescription, though they might be too long). Best, Daniel 2011/7/23 Stephan Zednik <zednis@rpi.edu> > I do not feel that EntityInstance, EntityInstantiation, or > InstantiatedEntity make sense for the book ownership scenario, or any > scenario modeling the provenance of changes in characteristics of a physical > object. > > To reiterate the example since I haven't committed it to a wiki page yet. > Book X is an entity that represents a real world object. It can be put on > a shelf, loaned to friends, damaged, and/or destroyed. It has important > characteristics (condition, ownership, location, etc) that may change over > the life of the book. We may want to represent the provenance of the book > as a chain of ownership. > > |<----------------------------**------------------------- Book X > ------------------------------**------------------------------**----->| > |<!------ Book X with owner A ---->|<----Book X with owner B ---->|<---- > Book X with owner A --------->| > > If a book changes ownership, is the "book with changed ownership" a > different EntityInstance? A different InstantiatedEntity? I don't think > what we current call a BOB is an 'instance of' anything. I think of it as a > description of an entity that holds for some time period (not necessarily > given) for which contextually important mutable characteristics of the the > entity are held to be known. > > --Stephan > > > On 7/22/2011 5:29 AM, Curt Tilmes wrote: > >> On 07/22/2011 03:43 AM, Khalid Belhajjame wrote: >> >>> The term "Snapshot" was suggested some time ago, and it seems that >>> several people did like it. >>> We can also use the term "EntitySnapshot". >>> >> >> Following from snapshot: >> >> EntityInstance >> EntityInstantiation >> InstantiatedEntity >> >> Curt >> >> >> >> > >
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