- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:01:26 +0000
- To: Provenance Working Group WG <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
- CC: Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org>
I take your point about pre-determined. "Determined" sounds a bit to me like a willful agent. How about "completed". I think this suggests past activities without completely excluding fictional accounts of future activities. #g -- On 23/11/2011 15:29, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: > > PROV-ISSUE-164 (TLebo): pre-determined versus determined [Accessing and Querying Provenance] > > http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/164 > > Raised by: Timothy Lebo > On product: Accessing and Querying Provenance > > In http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/paq/provenance-access.html : > > "Provenance assertions are about pre-determined activities involving entities; as such, they are not dynamic." > > > Is there something special about pre-determined that would be different from "determined"? > > Could "pre-" be safely removed without losing meaning? It's not that we knew what was going to happen -- only that they already have happened, no? > > Thanks, > Tim > > > > >
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