Re: PROV-ISSUE-7 (define-derivation): Definition for Concept 'Derivation' [Provenance Terminology]

Hi Jun, Daniel, Stephan,

Thanks for your proposed definitions:

I don't understand how the proposed definitions of Derivation
would work in the presence of mutable resources.

So, to illustrate this, I consider the following variant of our example


- blogger (bob) generates new chart (c2) based on the data (lcp2) using 
some software (tools2) with statistical assumptions (stats2)
- blogger (bob) publishes the chart (c2) under an open license (li3).
- user (u1) visualises chart (c2)
- later, blogger (bob) updates published chart (c2) rerunning (tools2) 
using other statistical assumptions (stats3)
- user (u2) visualises chart the latest (c2)


I would argue that we have:
- a derivation from a downloaded copy of c2 to stats2 (as seen by u1)
- another derivation from another downloaded copy of c2 to stats3 (as 
seen by u2)

Hence, it does not seem appropriate to relate resource c2 directly to 
stats2 or stats3.
Instead, I think we should relate the resource state representations of 
c2 (the downloaded copies)
to stats2 and stats3, respectively.

What do you think?
Cheers,
Luc




On 05/31/2011 11:56 AM, Jun Zhao wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On 27/05/2011 12:04, Daniel Garijo wrote:
>> Hi Luc, all
>> In the example c2 is also a derivation of d2, and from my point of view,
>> c2 could also be seen as a derivation from c1, since it is the chart 
>> taken as reference
>> and corected in c2...
>>
>> As for your second question, I think that if we want to be able to cover
>> provenance from resources, resources representations and resources state
>> representation, a derivation must be able to refer to all of them.
>
> That's why in the current wiki page defining derivation I used some 
> very vague terminologies.
>
> I think derivation should cover all the cases you listed above. And we 
> should start to clearly define the three above concepts in order to 
> define the rest provenance terms as accurately as we can for the moment.
>
> cheers,
>
> Jun
>
>>
>> What do you think?
>> Best,
>> Daniel
>>
>> 2011/5/27 Luc 
>> Moreau<L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Over the last week, we debated the notion of resource (PROV-ISSUE-1),
>> one of the concepts identified in the charter as core to a provenance
>> data model. It would be good to discuss the notion of derivation.
>>
>> Do we agree with the illustration of derivation [1]:
>> in the example, chart c1 is a derivation of data set d1.
>> Are there other interesting illustrations?
>>
>> Is derivation relating resources/resource representations/resource
>> representation states?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Luc
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/CharterConceptsIllustration
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 05/20/2011 08:07 AM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
>> PROV-ISSUE-7 (define-derivation): Definition for Concept 'Derivation' 
>> [Provenance Terminology]
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/7
>>
>> Raised by: Luc Moreau
>> On product: Provenance Terminology
>>
>> The Provenance WG charter identifies the concept 'Derivation' as a 
>> core concept of the provenance interchange language to be 
>> standardized (see http://www.w3.org/2011/01/prov-wg-charter).
>>
>> What term do we adopt for the concept 'Derivation'?
>> How do we define the concept 'Derivation'?
>> Where does concept 'Derivation' appear in ProvenanceExample?
>> Which provenance query requires the concept 'Derivation'?
>>
>> Wiki page: http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ConceptDerivation
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Professor Luc Moreau
>> Electronics and Computer Science   tel:   +44 23 8059 4487
>> University of Southampton          fax:   +44 23 8059 2865
>> Southampton SO17 1BJ               email: 
>> l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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>>
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>
>

-- 
Professor Luc Moreau
Electronics and Computer Science   tel:   +44 23 8059 4487
University of Southampton          fax:   +44 23 8059 2865
Southampton SO17 1BJ               email: l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk
United Kingdom                     http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm

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