- From: Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:30:13 -0400
- To: Graham Klyne <graham.klyne@zoo.ox.ac.uk>
- Cc: Jim McCusker <mccusj@rpi.edu>, Paul Groth <p.t.groth@vu.nl>, "public-prov-wg@w3.org" <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
Graham, On Apr 26, 2012, at 5:53 AM, Graham Klyne wrote: > On 17/04/2012 18:48, Jim McCusker wrote: >> For filenames, I would figure that one should use a file:// URI. Are there >> any reasons not to? > > Maybe, but I'm not aware of the full context, so ignore me if this doesn't make sense. > > file:// URIs are interpreted with respect to a specific host environment (commonly localhost, but can be named). While it's possible to separately a denotation, I think it could prove tricky to use this in a global reasoning environment. > > So, if the example is strictly local-use then file://... might be OK, but if the idea is to create provenance that can be shipped across the web I'd suggest avoiding file:// URIs. When one asserts a file path using the file scheme, I would interpret that attribute as part of the entity's characterization. It _is_ THE file at THAT path (on some assumed machine. You're right, it is more universally useful if one does NOT use absolute file paths, but in that situation we've walked up the specializationOf dimension (it's _all_ files that are found at _all_ of those relative paths on any machine). I think it's perfectly reasonable for someone to model with local file paths -- especially if that's what they intend to model. If one wants some "machine independence", then they should use relative file paths: :a prov:wasDerivedFrom <That_File_Over_There.txt> ; which will evaluate to the appropriate full path when the provenance is parsed. > > (This reminds me that there's a proposal for a ni: URI scheme that identifies by way of cryptographic hash, which might be useful for some aspects of provenance ... http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/81/slides/decade-3.pdf, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-farrell-decade-ni-04) (and this reminds me of Jim's and my IEEE IS article that combines crypto hashes, FRBR, and PROV to handle conversions between tables and many forms of RDF [1]). [1] https://github.com/timrdf/csv2rdf4lod-automation/wiki/frbr:mccusker2012parallel -Tim > > #g > -- > >> Jim >> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Paul Groth<p.t.groth@vu.nl> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I've place my example at >>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/Eg-27-small-command-line >>> >>> Essentially, we have the name of a zip file that is associated with an >>> Entity. The question is what is the recommended way to associate that >>> value with the entity. >>> >>> Luc's suggestion is prov:value. >>> >>> I'm inclined to suggest that this also apply to activities as well.... >>> >>> Cheers >>> Paul >>> >>> >> >> > >
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