Re: PROV-ISSUE-477 (rename toplevel-bundle): rename toplevel-bundle to dataset [prov-n]

I would suggest leaving it as is. Dataset is clearly overloaded. I
think prov document is not right because these top level bundles may
be not "documents" per say.

cheers
Paul

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 5:40 PM, James Cheney <jcheney@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.
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> My suggestion would be something like:
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> "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?)
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> --James
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> On Aug 10, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Ivan Herman wrote:
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>> 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:-)
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>> 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' ?
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>> Ivan
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>> On Aug 10, 2012, at 09:57 , Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
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