- From: James Cheney <jcheney@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:40:33 +0100
- To: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>
- Cc: Provenance Working Group <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
I believe this issue can be handled independently of ISSUE-474. If the editors of PROV-N wish to change the term "toplevel bundle" and keywords "bundle" and "endBundle" to something else that matches this terminology, that would be fine with me, but I don't insist on it. My suggestion would be something like: "toplevel bundle" -> "PROV document" opening "bundle" --> "provenance" or just "prov" closing "endBundle" --> "endProvenance" or just "endProv" but again, if people like it the way it is I'm happy with closing. If we keep the existing terminology, we should probably change PROV-CONSTRAINTS to make clear that what it calls "PROV document" is the same as what PROV-N calls "toplevel bundle" (and perhaps suggest that we hope/expect it will align with "RDF dataset", but make this a non-normative remark. Or would that be too much of a red flag?) --James On Aug 10, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Ivan Herman wrote: > Oops. For some reasons this was answered on Issue-474. For the sake of completeness and issue management, let me repeat my answer: > > That would lead to a possible confusion. The term 'dataset' is used in the SW world, namely in SPARQL. It *may* be the term adopted by RDF 1.1 for a collection of named graphs and, actually, it *may* be the right abstraction for Prov, too, but... we are not yet sure. And if we end up using the same term but with a different meaning then, well, hell is loose:-) > > B.t.w., if I use the RDF datasets as an analogy: that consists of (G, (n1,G1),....,(ni,Gi)), where (ni,Gi) is, to use the current terminology, a named graph (that is the term used in SPARQL) and G is the 'default graph'. As an analogy, what about 'default bundle' ? > > Ivan > > > > > On Aug 10, 2012, at 09:57 , Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: > >> PROV-ISSUE-477 (rename toplevel-bundle): rename toplevel-bundle to dataset [prov-n] >> >> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/477 >> >> Raised by: Luc Moreau >> On product: prov-n >> >> >> Following discussion on ISSUE-474, let us rename toplevel-bundle to dataset. >> >> Hence, what was written >> >> bundle >> prefix ex <http://ex.com> >> entity(ex:a) >> //... >> endBundle >> >> would become >> >> >> dataset >> prefix ex <http://ex.com> >> entity(ex:a) >> //... >> endDataset >> >> >> > > > ---- > Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead > Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ > mobile: +31-641044153 > FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf > > > > > > > -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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