Re: PROV-ISSUE-156 (TLebo): information flow ordering record - no temporal constraints? [Data Model]

Hi Tim,
You're right, a temporal interpretation constraint is missing.
I have added an explicit issue in the text. Hopefully, I will add it 
later this week.
Luc

On 11/21/2011 03:06 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
> PROV-ISSUE-156 (TLebo): information flow ordering record - no temporal constraints? [Data Model]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/156
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> Raised by: Timothy Lebo
> On product: Data Model
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> According to 6.3 Activity Ordering Record
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> "wasInformedBy" is:
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> "An information flow ordering record is a representation that an entity was generated by an activity, before it was used by another activity."
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> But the only constraint does not include the temporal aspects described above:
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> "Given two activity records identified by a1 and a2, the record wasInformedBy(a2,a1) holds, if and only if there is an entity record identified by e and sets of attribute-value pairs attrs1 and attrs2, such that wasGeneratedBy(e,a1,attrs1) and used(a2,e,attrs2) hold."
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> Does the temporal constraint fall out of constraints that apply to wasGeneratedBy and used?
> * If so, could this be made explicit?
> * If not, can "attrs1" and "attrs2" be elaborated to include the "time used" and "time generated" AND their constrained ordering?
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> Thanks,
> Tim
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