- From: Graham Klyne <graham.klyne@zoo.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:10:15 +0000
- To: W3C provenance WG <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
Re: http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/f52c0bb53dd4/model/prov-dm.html I found the abstract to be slightly unwieldy in its phrasing. Original: [[ PROV-DM is a data model for provenance for building representations of the entities, people and activities involved in producing a piece of data or thing in the world. PROV-DM is domain-agnostic, but is equipped with extensibility points allowing further domain-specific and application-specific extensions to be defined. PROV-DM is accompanied by PROV-ASN, a technology-independent abstract syntax notation, which allows serializations of PROV-DM instances to be created for human consumption, which facilitates its mapping to concrete syntax, and which is used as the basis for a formal semantics. ]] Proposed rephrasing: [[ PROV-DM is a data model for representing provenance of entities, people and activities involved in producing an artifact. PROV-DM is domain-agnostic, but has extensibility points that allow domain-specific information to be included. PROV-DM is accompanied by PROV-ASN, a technology-independent notation, which allows serializations of PROV-DM instances to be created for human consumption, and which may be mapped to other syntaxes used by software systems, and which is used as the basis for defining a formal semantics. ]] #g --
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