Re: PROV-ISSUE-444 (prov-o-to-last-call): Review PROV-O for last call [PROV-O HTML]

Luc,

On Jul 4, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Luc Moreau wrote:

> - prov:Influence and its subclasses: can they be used alone without a concrete  influence?

(ignoring that "concrete" doesn't mean anything in OWL)
Yes.

Justified by http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/prov-dm.html#term-influence
which says:

A Influence ◊ relation, written wasInfluencedBy(id; o2, o1, attrs) in PROV-N, has:

id: an optional identifier identifying the relation;
influencee: an identifier (o2) for an entity, activity, or agent;
influencer: an identifier (o1) for an ancestor entity, activity, or agent that the former depends on;
attributes: an optional set (attrs) of attribute-value pairs representing additional information about this relation.



>  Shouldn't the text say something and RECOMMEND the use of subclasses?

Yes, we can recommend that modelers use more specific expressions when possible.  
But isn't this always the case?

Where would you like this recommendation placed?
I've placed recommendations at http://aquarius.tw.rpi.edu/prov-wg/prov-o#wasInfluencedBy and http://aquarius.tw.rpi.edu/prov-wg/prov-o#Influence


Regards,
Tim