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

Hi Jim,
The term 'assertion' was not chosen because some records may be 
asserted, others inferred.
... inferred assertion ... is awkward.
Luc

On 02/11/2011 12:27, Myers, Jim wrote:
>
> +0. Record is probably closer to the idea that these are assertions 
> (has entity assertion, 'xyz' assertion been discussed as an option?) 
> than expression. I don't particularly like record for the other 
> connotations it brings in (provenance record is everything and we have 
> that record containing other records this way), but is assertion or 
> other better term is not available, record or statement sounds better 
> than expression.
>
> Jim
>
> *From:* Luc Moreau [mailto:L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 02, 2011 7:54 AM
> *To:* public-prov-wg@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: prov-dm expression: a proposal to vote on (deadline 
> Wednesday midnight GMT)
>
> Dear all,
> kind reminder ...
> Luc
>
> 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
>
>
>
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