Re: quick comment on Note in ProvRDF mapping

That sounds reasonable.

Then clients that do care about the subtypes can access it and treat them differently.

-Tim

On Feb 14, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Luc Moreau wrote:

> A compromise is to only allow for the prov:type attribute, and no id.
> This allows for easy mapping to rdf.
> 
> 
> Professor Luc Moreau
> Electronics and Computer Science
> University of Southampton
> Southampton SO17 1BJ
> United Kingdom
> 
> 
> On 14 Feb 2012, at 13:53, "Luc Moreau" <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Tim 
>> But what about sub typing of alternateOf?
>> 
>> Professor Luc Moreau
>> Electronics and Computer Science
>> University of Southampton
>> Southampton SO17 1BJ
>> United Kingdom
>> 
>> 
>> On 14 Feb 2012, at 13:48, "Timothy Lebo" <lebot@rpi.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Feb 14, 2012, at 4:33 AM, Luc Moreau wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi James,
>>>> 
>>>> I think it was an oversight on our behalf (Paolo and I) not to include
>>>> an id for alternateOf/specializationOf. In our working copy,
>>>> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/working-copy/towards-wd4.html
>>>> we have added them.
>>> 
>>> -1 leans towards bloat
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I also take the view that if we have an id then we have attributes, and vice-versa.
>>> 
>>> I agree.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> As a minimum, subtyping would be useful for these relations.
>>> 
>>> The subtyping can be placed onto your Note(id,[prov:type = "my subtype").
>>> This would let you reuse the same hadAnnotation relation.
>>> 
>>> -Tim
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> You will also recall, very early discussions about mapping of attributes for IVPof.
>>>> This could also be encoded with attributes.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Luc
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 02/14/2012 09:18 AM, James Cheney wrote:
>>>>> While we're on the subject, I'm no sure why alternateOf and specializationOf have attributes now, other than uniformity.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think that if the relation has an id describing the relationship (used/Usage, rtc.) Then attributes make sense.  If an id doesn't make sense then attributes don't either - in RDF we need an id to hang the attributess off of.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think that brevity should take precedence over uniformity, else we'll reinvent RDF or XML.
>>>>> 
>>>>> --James
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> -- 
>>>> Professor Luc Moreau
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>>>> University of Southampton          fax:   +44 23 8059 2865
>>>> Southampton SO17 1BJ               email: l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk
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>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

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