- From: Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu>
- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 20:25:59 -0500
- To: Provenance Working Group <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
On Feb 6, 2012, at 7:56 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 21:43, Daniel Garijo > <dgarijo@delicias.dia.fi.upm.es> wrote: > >> you may want to say that an entity has been created and assert some metadata >> about the creation (hour, >> location, etc.), but not want/know which activity produced it. That is why >> everything can optional but the entity. > > This is a valid explanation, however then you have still included the > time or the attributes, and not covering Tim's question. > > > However, I don't see any reason why we need to spend effort making > wasGeneratedBy(e) 'forbidden' - (ignoring all all above) > it could still be used with a note if > someone wants to give metadata about the generation (say why the > activity and time could not be recorded!) Stian! This is a great motivation for Notes! @luc, paulo: Could the DM mention this in the discussion for Notes? I think the disagreement in ISSUE-260 could be settled by saying: * Notes are annotations from the asserter of the assertions they are currently making, while * bundles are used to annotate assertions others have previously made. Regards, Tim > > > -- > Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team > School of Computer Science > The University of Manchester > >
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