- From: Simon Miles <simon.miles@kcl.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:28:44 +0000
- To: Provenance Working Group WG <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
Hi Luc, OK, but even if we distinguish "the agent who decides that a fact is true" from "the agent who asserts that fact", then I don't see why Revision is any different from any other assertion. Thanks, Simon On 11 November 2011 12:22, Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > Hi Simon, > It's not the case that the responsible agent is the one making the > assertion. > Luc > > On 11/11/2011 12:01 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: >> 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? >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > Professor Luc Moreau > Electronics and Computer Science tel: +44 23 8059 4487 > University of Southampton fax: +44 23 8059 2865 > Southampton SO17 1BJ email: l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk > United Kingdom http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm > > > -- Dr Simon Miles Lecturer, Department of Informatics Kings College London, WC2R 2LS, UK +44 (0)20 7848 1166
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