Re: prov-dm expression: a proposal to vote on (deadline Wednesday midnight GMT)

I have expression my POV earlier -- for my part I did find "expression" confusing as it was expressed in a context of language mixed 
in with the data model

-Paolo

   On 11/2/11 12:01 PM, James Cheney wrote:
> 0 - I think either "expression" or "record" is fine.  "Statement" would also be fine - in my view these are closer to declarative 
> statements than "expressions" that you'd evaluate in a programming language.  "Record" might be confusing if the entities are also 
> records, but this is true for "expression" and "statement" too.
>
> --James
>>
>> On 10/28/2011 03:17 PM, Luc Moreau wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> In the interest of simplification, we would like to make the following
>>> proposal about terminology in prov-dm.
>>>
>>> The context:
>>>
>>> Following this week's call, the prov-dm document will introduce
>>> concepts such as entity and activity in section 2, and define 'entity
>>> expression' and 'activity expression' in section 5.  In section 5 (see
>>> table of contents of [1]), all terms of the data model have been
>>> suffixed by the suffix 'expression', which allows us to distinguish
>>> terms of the data model (i.e. what we say in provenance records) from
>>> the things in the world.
>>>
>>>
>>> The problem:
>>>
>>> While this distinction is important, the choice of word is not ideal.
>>> The suffix 'expression' has a strong connotation of language, and the reader may
>>> think that we talk about expressions in the abstract syntax notation.
>>> It's not the case!  We really mean elements of the data model.
>>>
>>> Proposal:
>>> /Rename 'Entity Expression' into 'Entity Record'; similarly, rename 'XXX Expression' into 'XXX Record'./
>>>
>>> Can you please express your support for this proposal by Wednesday
>>> midnight GMT, and we will confirm it at the next teleconference.
>>>
>>> Luc
>>>
>>> [1] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/ProvenanceModel.html
>>>
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Professor Luc Moreau
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