- From: Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 21:21:37 -0400
- To: Provenance Working Group <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
Unfortunately, due to time and lack of momentum,and no clear solution, we agreed to postpone this issue during the prov-o call. Regards, Tim On Jun 11, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: > PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] > > http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/406 > > Raised by: Stian Soiland-Reyes > On product: Ontology > > After the rename from prov:Responsibility to prov:Delegation, I believe the PROV-O mapping of actedOnBehalfOf is non-intuitive with regards to the direction. > > > Consider the graph in > > http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/Eg-37-delegation-direction > > showing only the qualified relationship. If you read this intuitively, as someone who will find the RDF in the wild - it easily reads the wrong way. > > > I've discussed some potential solutions on that wiki page: > > > * Make <code>prov:hadDelegate</code> be the unqualified property and change the direction of <code>prov:Delegation</code> > ** Should then be pretty obvious; would not have <code>prov:Agent</code> problem > ** ..but wrong direction/term according to DM.. > *** DM to change actedOnBehalfOf(responsible, delegate) to hadDelegate(delegate, responsible)? > * Use more specific properties like <code>prov:responsible</code> rather than confusing <code>prov:agent<code> > ** but.. harder to identify the 'special' outgoing link of qualification > * Rename <code>prov:Delegation</code> and <code>prov:qualifiedDelegation</code> > ** prov:Delegate ? > ** prov:ActedOnBehalfOf ? > ** .. ? > > > -- > Stian Soiland-Reyes > > > > >
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