Re: Votes (deadline Thursday noon, GMT): ISSUE-225, objects in the Universe of discourse

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 14:38, Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:



> Proposal 1: Entities and Activities belong to the universe of discourse.
+1

> Proposal 2: Events (Entity Usage event, Entity Generation Event,
> Activity Start Event, Activity End event) belong to the universe of
> discourse

+1


> Proposal 3: Derivation, Association, Responsibility chains,
> Traceability, Activity Ordering, Revision, Attribution, Quotation,
> Summary, Original SOurce, CollectionAfterInsertion/Collection After
> removal belong to the universe of discourse.

-1 - these are relations between and mainly based on the primitives
mentioned above.


> Proposal 4: AlternateOf and SpecializationOf belong to the universe of
> discourse

-1 - just a relationship between entities, similar to prov:type and
prov:role attributes.


> Proposal 5: Records do not belong to the Universe of discourse
>             This includes Account Record.

+1

(But of course you are free to talk about a record as an entity if you
want to do meta provenance)

However, I believe that *Account* -does- belong to the universe of
discourse and should be identifiable.



> Proposal 6: Things do no belong to the universe of discourse

+1 (We talk about things using entities)


> Proposal 7: Note/hasAnnotation do not belong to the universe of discourse

+1

> Proposal 8: Event ordering constraints do not belong to the universe of
> discourse.
+1

> Proposal 9: Attributes do not belong to the universe of discourse.
+1

.. although attribute values might be references to something which
just happens to be an entity - so it is more that the attributes
themselves do not belong to the universe of discourse.

entity(luc)
entity(car, [ex:owner=luc] )


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Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester

Received on Thursday, 26 January 2012 09:01:30 UTC