Re: PROV-ISSUE-147 (Replace recipe): Change the name if "Recipe" [Data Model]

Hi Luc,
Comments on your example are interleaved


> However, take an activity run by my email client. I would argue that my
> email
> client executable is a specification of an activity and is also a plan.
> In this specific case, what's the difference between a Plan and a
> (Software) Agent?
>
>
The code for the email client is a specification vs. email client process
corresponding to the distinction between a program (in memory or on disk
etc.) and a process (being actively executed).

A program can have multiple processes, similar to the blueprint of a
welding robot, reconnaissance drone and actual robots, drones etc.


> The same question also applies to a workflow script, controlling an
> activity.  Is it an agent
> or a plan?
>
>
Workflow script is a "plan" or "recipe" or "specification" etc. and not an
agent.

Best,
Satya


> Thanks,
> Luc
>
>
> On 11/07/2011 03:28 PM, Satya Sahoo wrote:
>
> +1 for replacing Recipe.
>
>  Plan is a nice alternative - should we make it Activity/Process Plan
> (corresponds to the Activity/Process Execution)?
>
> Best,
> Satya
>
>  On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker <
> sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> PROV-ISSUE-147 (Replace recipe): Change the name if "Recipe" [Data Model]
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/147
>>
>> Raised by: James McCusker
>> On product: Data Model
>>
>> We chose Recipe to be explicitly clear about the use of a method or plan
>> to guide a ProcessExecution. We should find a broader term that isn't as
>> tied to the cake example. This is what I recommend. We start with the term
>> "Recipe" and replace it with ever more general terms that are unambiguous.
>> We then accept the broadest possible term that cannot be confused with an
>> occurrent.
>>
>> My first cut is "Plan". It's short, simple, and unambiguous. I think it's
>> sufficiently general to cover the definition of "Recipe" without being
>> confused with "Process".
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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