- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 20:51:50 +0100
- To: Stephan Zednik <zednis@rpi.edu>
- CC: Paul Groth <pgroth@gmail.com>, Jun Zhao <jun.zhao@zoo.ox.ac.uk>, "public-prov-wg@w3.org" <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
Stephan Zednik wrote: >> That term has a more specific meaning in the context of HTTP: >> http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html >> >> #g >> -- > > Thanks. > > I prefer the following definition from the New Oxford American Dictionary: > > entity |ˈentitē| > noun ( pl. -ties)a thing with distinct and independent existence : church and > empire werefused in a single entity.• existence; > being : entity and nonentity./ > / I think it would very much be a mistake to use any terminology in the > context of HTTP in our conceptual model of provenance. I have sympathy with this view, but we might also consider our target audience who I think will, on average, be those who have some familiarity with terminology used in a web context (i.e. web developers, etc.). If we choose to use the term "entity" in its non-technical sense, we might also consider highlighting the fact that a "provenance entity" is not the same as an "HTTP entity". #g --
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