Re: PROV-ISSUE-47 (third-party-provenance): How to obtain provenance from a third party known by the user [Accessing and Querying Provenance]

Except that we should recognize that the document is to be identified 
for its provenance-uri(s) to be found.

Luc

PS. Adding PROV-ISSUE-46 for it to be indexed in that thread too by tracker.

On 07/28/2011 03:22 PM, Graham Klyne wrote:
> I'll propose that is an orthogonal issue, raised for ISSUE-46 and best 
> discussed there, not as part of the third party service structure.
>
> #g
> -- 
>
> Luc Moreau wrote:
>> Hi Graham,
>>
>> As for ISSUE-46, where do I find the information identifier, when I 
>> consider the case
>> of an html file on a disk?
>>
>> I think there is a range of ways of "identifying documents", 
>> sometimes coexisting.
>> The specification should identify the rules that prevail to determine
>> the document exact identity.
>>
>> I can see all the following identifiers having some value:
>>
>> -a document-identifier embedded in the html file (useful for html 
>> file on disk)
>> -a document-identifier in the http header (would identify the actual 
>> bob returned)
>> -the url used to retrieve the document (useful for cool urls)
>>
>>
>> Luc
>>
>> On 07/28/2011 01:40 PM, Graham Klyne wrote:
>>> I believe this is addressed by section 3.4 
>>> (http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/tip/paq/provenance-access.html#third-party-services), 
>>> which addresses precisely the use-case described by this issue.
>>>
>>> Specifically, if I have the URI of a third party provenance service, 
>>> and a URI or identifying information about the target resource, a 
>>> SPARQL query can be constructed to locate the required provenance 
>>> URI and/or data from that third party.  I think availability of such 
>>> information is pretty much a prerequisite for creating any kind of 
>>> third party provenance service - I can't see how it might work 
>>> without that.
>>>
>>> I think this may have more to do with discussion around ISSUE 46 
>>> (http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/46) - the extent to which 
>>> the provenance information itself identifies the entity whose 
>>> provenance it describes.
>>>
>>> #g
>>> -- 
>>>
>>>
>>> Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
>>>> PROV-ISSUE-47 (third-party-provenance): How to obtain provenance 
>>>> from a third party known by the user [Accessing and Querying 
>>>> Provenance]
>>>>
>>>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/47
>>>>
>>>> Raised by: Luc Moreau
>>>> On product: Accessing and Querying Provenance
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand how the proposal allows us to address 
>>>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ProvenanceAccessScenario.
>>>>
>>>> Specifically, I consider the case where the user wants to access 
>>>> provenance from a third-party they know (e.g. a favorite consumer 
>>>> group).
>>>>
>>>> Using section 3, I can obtain one or more provenance-uris, which 
>>>> are known from the responding server or the document creator.
>>>> If my third-party is not known by the responding server or document 
>>>> creator, I have no mechanism to obtain a provenance-uri since I 
>>>> don't have have an identifier for the document I currently hold.
>>>>
>>>> A solution could be: we need a BOB-identifier to be passed around 
>>>> (as suggested in ISSUE-46) and a mechanism that resolves a 
>>>> BOB-identifier to provenance-uri.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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