- From: Jim McCusker <mccusj@rpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 13:15:44 -0500
- To: Paolo Missier <Paolo.Missier@ncl.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-prov-wg@w3.org
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Paolo Missier <Paolo.Missier@ncl.ac.uk> wrote: > DM says: > > 5.5.5 Literal > > Literals represent data values such as particular string or integers. > > My understanding is it's always been used in the standard grammar production > meaning (eg: http://savage.net.au/SQL/sql-2003-2.bnf.html#literal). Not so? I think a clearer definition would be: A Provenance Literal is a "leaf" value. It does not explicitly have any outgoing relations (in SW-ish: Is not a subject of any statement) in the PROV data model. Any outgoing relations from a Provenance Literal is out of scope for the PROV DM. Jim -- Jim McCusker Programmer Analyst Krauthammer Lab, Pathology Informatics Yale School of Medicine james.mccusker@yale.edu | (203) 785-6330 http://krauthammerlab.med.yale.edu PhD Student Tetherless World Constellation Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute mccusj@cs.rpi.edu http://tw.rpi.edu
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