Re: prov-dm expression: a proposal to vote on (deadline Wednesday midnight GMT)

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On 10/28/11 7:17 AM, Luc Moreau wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> In the interest of simplification, we would like to make the following
> proposal about terminology in prov-dm.
>
> The context:
>
> Following this week's call, the prov-dm document will introduce
> concepts such as entity and activity in section 2, and define 'entity
> expression' and 'activity expression' in section 5.  In section 5 (see
> table of contents of [1]), all terms of the data model have been
> suffixed by the suffix 'expression', which allows us to distinguish
> terms of the data model (i.e. what we say in provenance records) from
> the things in the world.
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>
> The problem:
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> While this distinction is important, the choice of word is not ideal.
> The suffix 'expression' has a strong connotation of language, and the 
> reader may
> think that we talk about expressions in the abstract syntax notation.
> It's not the case!  We really mean elements of the data model.
>
> Proposal:
> /Rename 'Entity Expression' into 'Entity Record'; similarly, rename 
> 'XXX Expression' into 'XXX Record'./
>
> Can you please express your support for this proposal by Wednesday
> midnight GMT, and we will confirm it at the next teleconference.
>
> Luc
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> [1] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/ProvenanceModel.html
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