Re: prov:Dictionary example - without the specs

On Jun 6, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Paolo Missier wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> it seems to me that all the ping pong from this mail froward in the thread is about whether Collections should be sets or bags (multisets). In the latter case, it doesn't matter whether two URIs really refer to the same entity.
> Is this the case? If so, would it be reasonable to accept that (abstract) Collections are bags

+1 to no requirement on determining member equality for abstract collections.

--Stephan

> , and Dictionaries as /sets/ (of key-valuye pairs)?
> 
> -Paolo
> 
> 
> On 6/5/12 10:05 PM, Luc Moreau wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Tim,
>> 
>> Thanks for your example.
>> 
>> The following is not valid according to prov-dm:
>> 
>> prov:hadMember                                             # These would be asserted on a simple (first step)
>>     36       <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Glover_Roberts,_Jr.>, # prov:Collection.
>>     37       <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Antonin_Scalia>,           #
>>     38       <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anthony_Kennedy>,          #
>>     39       <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Clarence_Thomas>,          #
>>     40       <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg>,      #
>>     41       <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Breyer>,           #
>>     42       <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Samuel_Alito>,             #
>>     43       <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sonia_Sotomayor>,          #
>>     44       <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Elena_Kagan>;       
>> 
>> The key reason why we went for a dictionary and, say, a set of entities,
>> is that we are unable to decide whether an entity belongs to a set on the basis of
>> its urls (since the same entity may be denoted by multiple urls).
>> 
>> Luc
>> 
>> On 05/06/2012 06:25, Timothy Lebo wrote:
>>> 
>>> prov-wg,
>>> 
>>> I tried my hand at modeling the provenance of the U.S. Supreme Court's current membership, and its derivation to it's first membership.
>>> 
>>> The wiki page for the example is at:
>>> 
>>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/Eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership
>>> 
>>> In an attempt to take a fresh look at how we're modeling dictionaries (and collections?), I didn't reference PROV-DM, PROV-O, or any other examples or documentation -- I just tried to describe the subject matter.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> How does it look?
>>> 
>>> I'd like to move PROV-O (and DM, if it needs tweaking) towards this kind of modeling and naming.
>>> 
>>> Discussion and feedback encouraged.
>>> 
>>> Later today, I'll try to start from scratch on the DM and work through the current PROV-O modeling, and then the recent threads on this topic.
>>> I hope by then we can converge on a satisfactory design.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Tim
>>>   
> 
> 
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