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- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:01:42 +0000
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PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/149 Raised by: Simon Miles On product: Data Model The Revision record contains its own asserter, but it is unclear why. "Deciding whether something is made available as a revision of something else usually involves an agent who represents someone in the world who takes responsibility for declaring that the former is variant of the latter... A revision record... may refer to a responsible agent with identifier ag." The agent appears to be just the entity deciding whether to make the assertion or not (whether one entity is a revision of another). This is no different from any other assertion: it is always in some asserter's perspective that the assertion is true. We don't include the asserter explicitly in Used, Generated, Derived or other records, so why do we for Revision?
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