Re: PROV-ISSUE-32: Bob definition [Conceptual Model]

I agree with Khalid,
   and at the same time I feel that there is lack of agreement on the use of terms
- describe
- represents

which I suspect is ultimately just a matter of terminology rather than of deep substance.
I suggest that a specific issue on this be raised against the doc, as it makes it sooo much easier to follow it (at least for me).

Thanks, -Paolo



On 7/21/11 9:20 PM, Jim McCusker wrote:
> I would add that we make it 100% clear that a BOB describes an Entity,
> but does not represent it.
>
> Jim
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Luc Moreau<l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>  wrote:
>> Agreed with your suggestions Khalid.
>> I would just avoid the word 'use' in the phrasing, given its occurrence in
>> the spec.
>>
>> Luc
>>
>> On 21/07/2011 19:49, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
>>> PROV-ISSUE-32: Bob definition [Conceptual Model]
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/32
>>>
>>> Raised by: Khalid Belhajjame
>>> On product: Conceptual Model
>>>
>>> The definition of Bob states that
>>>
>>> "A BOB assertion is about a characterized entity, whose situation in the
>>> world is variant. A BOB assertion is made at a particular point and is
>>> invariant, in the sense that all the attributes are assigned a value as part
>>> of that assertion."
>>>
>>> I suggest to modify the definition as follows:
>>>
>>> "A BOB assertion is about a characterized entity, whose situation in the
>>> world *may be* variant. A BOB assertion is made at a particular point and is
>>> invariant, in the sense that *the attributes used to characterize the BOB*
>>> are assigned a value as part of that assertion."
>>>
>>>
>>> "is variant" ->    "may be variant": there may be situations in which a
>>> given entity has only one characterization which spans the life time of that
>>> entity.
>>> "all attributes" ->    "the attributes that characterize the BOB" or "the
>>> attributes associated with the BOB": this is to avoid people thinking that
>>> we have complete knowledge of all possible attribute that can be used to
>>> characterize the BOB.
>>>
>>> Khalid
>>>
>>>
>>>

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