Re: PROV-ISSUE-115 (Tlebo): prov:preceded should be replaced with prov:followed [Formal Model]

Hi Tim,
prov:preceeded no longer exists in the ontology. We have wasInformedBy or
wasStartedByActivity
to relate activities.

Can this issue be closed?

Thanks,
Daniel


2011/10/5 Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org>

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> PROV-ISSUE-115 (Tlebo): prov:preceded should be replaced with
> prov:followed [Formal Model]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/115
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> Raised by: Timothy Lebo
> On product: Formal Model
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> All other predicates are pointing from the newer rdfs:Resource to the
> older rdfs:Resource (e.g. prov:wasDerivedFrom).
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> This "backwards looking" paradigm makes sense because we need to describe
> newer things in terms of the older things sitting around.
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> prov:preceded is inconsistent with this paradigm, as it "looks forwards"
> to the newer one, which may not exist yet.
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> I recommend we REPLACE prov:preceded with prov:followed and reverse the
> definition. To keep the ontology trim, we should leave the definition of
> prov:followed's inverse to an extension.
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