Re: ACTION-91: comment regarding completeness

Tim

On 6/8/12 1:51 PM, Timothy Lebo wrote:
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> On Jun 8, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Paolo Missier wrote:
>
>> Luc
>>> The attributecomplete <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/prov-dm.html#membership.complete>provides 
>>> an/indication/that the dictionary membership is entirely described by themembership 
>>> <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/prov-dm.html#dfn-memberof>relation. Separate provenance 
>>> descriptions/may/describe different membership. Such conflicting information is to be handled by application specific reasoning.
>> This doesn't really do it for me. In particular I don't understand:
>> - why is "indication" in italics? how is it to be interpreted?
>> -" Separate provenance descriptions/may/describe different membership. Such conflicting information is to be handled by 
>> application specific reasoning." this is trying to tell me something in between the lines, it is not clear to me.
>>
>> I propose the following:
>>
>> "The attributecomplete <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/prov-dm.html#membership.complete>is optional. It is 
>> interpreted as follows:
>> - if it is present and set to true, then c is known to include all and only the members specified in the key-entity-set.
>
>
> ^^^ This kind of "future proofing" is what raised the "completeness concerns", so I suggest toning this down.
> As I've said before, avoiding the OWA's "anything can come down the road" and instead focusing on "this is believed to be true, 
> according to the asserter" eases the completeness objections.
no problems with that, but as I pointed out in past discussions on this, this is true in general for /all/ provenance assertions, 
not just collections... right?

-Paolo




>
> -Tim
>
>
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>> - if it is present and set to false, then c is known to include more members in addition to those specified in the key-entity-set,
>> - if it is not present, then c is known to include all the members specified in the key-entity-set, and possibly more."
>>
>> -Paolo
>>
>> On 6/8/12 9:03 AM, Paul Groth wrote:
>>> Looks good to me
>>>
>>> On Jun 8, 2012, at 9:59, Luc Moreau<L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Following ACTION-91, I wrote the following paragraph to clarify the
>>>> attribute complete.
>>>>
>>>> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/prov-dm.html#complete-attribute-note
>>>>
>>>> Feedback welcome.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Luc
>>>>
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>>>> University of Southampton          fax:   +44 23 8059 2865
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>>>> United Kingdomhttp://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm
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>>>>
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