Re: prov:Dictionary example - without the specs

On 06/06/2012 05:16 PM, Stephan Zednik wrote:
>
> 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.

It is up to the asserter to determine if it is important for their use
case or not -- if it is, they are responsible for cleaning up their
own data.  It if isn't, then it doesn't matter.

Curt

>
> --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://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/tip/examples/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership/rdf/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership.ttl#l36>        <http://dbpedia.org/resource/John_Glover_Roberts,_Jr.>, # prov:Collection.
>>>      37  <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/tip/examples/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership/rdf/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership.ttl#l37>        <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Antonin_Scalia>,           #
>>>      38  <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/tip/examples/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership/rdf/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership.ttl#l38>        <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Anthony_Kennedy>,          #
>>>      39  <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/tip/examples/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership/rdf/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership.ttl#l39>        <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Clarence_Thomas>,          #
>>>      40  <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/tip/examples/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership/rdf/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership.ttl#l40>        <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg>,      #
>>>      41  <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/tip/examples/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership/rdf/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership.ttl#l41>        <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Stephen_Breyer>,           #
>>>      42  <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/tip/examples/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership/rdf/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership.ttl#l42>        <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Samuel_Alito>,             #
>>>      43  <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/tip/examples/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership/rdf/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership.ttl#l43>        <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sonia_Sotomayor>,          #
>>>      44  <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/tip/examples/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership/rdf/eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership.ttl#l44>        <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
>>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -----------  ~oo~  --------------
>> Paolo Missier -Paolo.Missier@newcastle.ac.uk,pmissier@acm.org
>> School of Computing Science, Newcastle University,  UK
>> http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/Paolo.Missier
>

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