Re: concept illustrations for the data journalism example

On 12/05/11 09:16, Paul Groth wrote:
>
>> 2.) Processing step 4 says: "analyst (alice) downloads a turtle
>> serialization (lcp1) ..." While I was trying to describe that fact, it
>> felt strange that Alice was the agent/actor that accessed the server.
>> Hence, I would say that Alice cannot download lcp1 directly, she must 
>> use
>> an HTTP client software for that. Same for Bob in processing step 8.
>> Should we add that to the example?
> This is interesting. This is how I would want to model the example. 
> But I think it's clear that our language would have to support notions 
> exactly like "Alice downloaded a turtle file". This is the kind of 
> provenance that people say all the time and I think it behoves us to 
> figure out what we would need to support this kind of notion.

This point is making a good case for two different views/accounts of 
execution:
one more system oriented (with the http client) and one more user oriented.

Luc

Received on Thursday, 12 May 2011 08:29:50 UTC