Re: PROV-ISSUE-395: Rename hadOriginalSource to "originatedFrom"? [prov-dm]

Hi Tim,

I don't think hadOriginalSource and originatedFrom convey the same
meaning. I am also a bit concerned about doing these big renames of
things.

cheers
Paul

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker
<sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:
> PROV-ISSUE-395: Rename hadOriginalSource to "originatedFrom"? [prov-dm]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/395
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> Raised by: Timothy Lebo
> On product: prov-dm
>
> DM editors,
>
> Could hadOriginalSource be renamed to "originatedFrom" ?
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> I think it follows the "wasDerivedFrom" naming a little more closely, and avoids an exception to PROV-O's "has" naming convention.
>
> Then, perhaps the Involvement "Source" could be renamed "Origin"?
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> And qualifiedSource would become qualifiedOrigin.
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> I think that this naming is a little more natural.
>
> (yes, this is phrased in terms of PROV-O, but an issue on DM; probably best product would be mapping prov-dm <->  prov-o...)
>
> Thanks,
> Tim
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>
>
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Dr. Paul Groth (p.t.groth@vu.nl)
http://www.few.vu.nl/~pgroth/
Assistant Professor
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Group
Artificial Intelligence Section
Department of Computer Science
VU University Amsterdam

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