- From: Simon Miles <simon.miles@kcl.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:06:44 +0100
- To: Provenance Working Group WG <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
I think it might be hard to find a term which is both appropriate and simple to denote both 'the invariant identity of a highly mutable, temporal entity' (e.g. a person) or 'an invariant list of bytes in one message at one instant' (e.g. a web state resource'). So instead, I propose just an abbreviation: 'invariant' http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/TerminologyProposals Thanks, Simon On 8 June 2011 12:13, Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org> wrote: > I agree with Simon on this. > > #g > -- > > Simon Miles wrote: >> I don't strongly mind "snapshot", but doesn't it sort of imply >> something at an instant of time (as taken with camera)? We may have an >> invariant view on a thing as it exists over a very long time, so >> implying we refer to an instant might be confusing. >> >> Though I don't have a better suggestion off the top of my head, but >> will think more. >> >> Thanks, >> Simon >> >> On 7 June 2011 17:06, Jun Zhao <jun.zhao@zoo.ox.ac.uk> wrote: >>> On 07/06/11 08:28, Olaf Hartig wrote: >>>> Hey, >>>> >>>> I like "snapshot" as well. >>> +1 >>> >>> Jun >>> >>>> Olaf >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tuesday 07 June 2011 09:18:42 Paul Groth wrote: >>>>> Personally, I like the term "snapshot". >>>>> >>>>> It has a nice common sense interpretation and also has a nice link to >>>>> database. >>>>> >>>>> Paul >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:58 AM, Luc Moreau<L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: >>>>>> All, >>>>>> >>>>>> This is a useful concept that we are going to reuse in our model for >>>>>> provenance. >>>>>> Hence, I created an issue for it. >>>>>> >>>>>> It would be useful to adopt a term for it. >>>>>> Please send suggestions. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> Luc >>> >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>> This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. >>> For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email >>> ______________________________________________________________________ >>> >> >> >> > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- Dr Simon Miles Lecturer, Department of Informatics Kings College London, WC2R 2LS, UK +44 (0)20 7848 1166
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