Re: Other uses for specializationOf (FYI)

Hi Graham,

On 25 June 2012 09:54, Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org> wrote:

> In the past couple of weeks, I've come across two likely uses for
> specializationOf from outside the immediate concerns of provenance:
>
> (1) as part of the NISO ResourceSync (repository synchronization) work, it
> is now a proposal for indicating a relationship between a resource which
> has multiple possible representations, and a resource which is a particular
> representation of that resource.
>
> (2) as part of my Wf4Ever work on APIs for accessing Research Objects, and
> related to ORE proxies, it might be used to describe an occurrence of a
> resource within the context of a research object (or ORE aggregation) as
> opposed to the resource used more widely.  (This is currently just an idea
> of mine which has not yet been discussed with the wider project.  Note that
> such use would not cover the actual contextualization semantics, but could
> be used to trace from the occurrence to the more general case.)
>

Yes, this seems appropriate to me, and I think that its application is not
just valid in the Research Object of Wf4ever, it can be generalized to the
notion of "proxy" in ORE aggregations.

khalid


>
> This is just for information, and I'm not expecting this to have any
> particular impact on the work under way, except maybe to sensitize people
> to possible wider applicability.
>
> #g
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