Re: PROV-ISSUE-239 (TLebo): is wasGeneratedBy(e) meaningful? [prov-dm]

On Feb 6, 2012, at 8:12 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 22:57, Paolo Missier <Paolo.Missier@ncl.ac.uk> wrote:
>> The activity should not be optional, surely?
> 
> It is not optional, just implicit/unknown.
> 
> The main purpose was to associate known generation time with an entity
> when the activity is unknown.
> 
> ASN does not have the equivalent of BNODEs (as we would implement this
> in PROV-O),

STOP promoting bnodes!
They should _never_ be used in actual systems.

-Tim


> and thus activity was made optional. Luc will know the
> details, there was some email about it.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team
> School of Computer Science
> The University of Manchester
> 
> 

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