- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:23:52 +0000
- To: Stian Soiland-Reyes <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk>
- CC: Jim McCusker <mccusj@rpi.edu>, Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, public-prov-wg@w3.org
+1 (Nicely put!) #g -- On 11/01/2012 13:06, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > no, rpi:JimMcCusker is already a characterisation of a thing in the > world (you), and hence is also an entity. You are a person, not a > URI, but rpi:JimMcCusker is one (characterised) way to talk about you > as a person. This characterisation - even if not expressed - will > always be bounded, for instance it probably does not characterize > "you" before you were conceived, and it probably does not include the > car you are driving today. > > Basically any existing URI can be said to be an entity, because by > their nature they characterize something. (This is also an argument > that nothing can be disjoint from prov:Entity - but that's a separate > issue)
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