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

If we go with that, then we need to define Role (at least, maybe
others) as either a name or literal. Of course, we could say that they
are only names, but they can be anonymous but labeled. Someone who
wants to use URIs can do this:

id:BarackObama prov:hasRole id:POTUS.
id:POTUS a prov:Role;
    rdfs:label "President of the United States of America".

while someone who just wants to use labels can do this:

id:BarackObama prov:hasRole [ a prov:Role;
    rdfs:label "President of the United States of America"].

There's an implicit "name" in there, but it's anonymous, because it's
unnamed, but labeled.

Jim

PS: I know that I didn't get prov:hasRole right. I just wanted to
illustrate the use of identified and anonymous resources to let
"names" in the PROV DM be unnamed things that are literal-ish.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Paolo Missier <Paolo.Missier@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:
> Backing off from URIs altogether for what we are calling names/literals
> seems sensible to me.
>
> -Paolo
>
>
>  On 11/10/11 3:02 PM, Graham Klyne wrote:
>>
>> On 07/11/2011 22:19, Luc Moreau wrote:
>>  >  Here is a first draft of the literal section.
>>  >
>>  >
>>
>> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/ProvenanceModel.html#record-literal
>>
>>
>> I have problems with this.
>>
>> (1) The first paragraph is confusing.  Es[pecially the second sentence -
>> what is
>> this trying to say?
>>
>> (2) "a PROV-DM Literal may be a URI-typed string (with datatype
>> xsd:anyURI), or
>> URI-denoted resource (with datatype rdf:Resource); in either case; such
>> URI has
>> no specific interpretation in the context of PROV-DM."
>>
>> Firstly, the structure here is so close to the structure of RDF literals,
>> that
>> to then not adopt the standard RDF semantics for them is, IMO, a recipe
>> for much
>> confusion.
>>
>> Secondly, the idea of using rdf:Resource as a datatype URI seems to fly in
>> the
>> face of RDF.  If you are going to explicitly use RDF URIs, I think it's
>> crucial
>> to adopt RDF semantics for them.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> Personally, I think DM would do better to back off from specifying URIs
>> and
>> RDF-style literals, and just talk about names and literals, specifying a
>> minimum
>> that you need to express the abstract model.
>>
>> The Ontology document can then carry the task of mapping the abstract
>> model to
>> RDF, which IMO would lead to a much cleaner separation of concerns.
>>
>> #g
>> --
>>
>>
>> On 07/11/2011 22:19, Luc Moreau 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
>
>
> --
> -----------  ~oo~  --------------
> Paolo Missier - Paolo.Missier@newcastle.ac.uk, pmissier@acm.org
> School of Computing Science, Newcastle University,  UK
> http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/Paolo.Missier
>
>
>
>



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