Re: PROV-ISSUE-142 (Tlebo): Can roles only be Literals? [Data Model]

No Jim, they are prov-dm literals, "leaves" as you said.
I thought you would map a prov-dm URi literal into an rdf resource.

Professor Luc Moreau
Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton 
Southampton SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

On 7 Nov 2011, at 23:35, "Jim McCusker" <mccusj@rpi.edu> wrote:

> The examples are all RDF literals. I thought that we weren't using any
> RDF in the DM...
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 5:19 PM, Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hi Tim, Stephan, Jim,
>> 
>> Here is a first draft of the literal section.
>> 
>> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/ProvenanceModel.html#record-literal
>> 
>> It would be good to have your feedback.
>> If you find it's ok, than the literals examples in the document need to be
>> checked.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Luc
>> 
>> On 07/11/11 18:15, Jim McCusker wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
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