- From: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:08:35 +0000
- To: public-prov-wg@w3.org
Hi Simon, We have made some changes on this section in the latest WD. We are proposing to close, Can you confirm it is fine? Regards, 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
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