- From: Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 19:25:58 -0400
- To: Daniel Garijo <dgarijo@delicias.dia.fi.upm.es>
- Cc: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Provenance Working Group <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <B419490E-FC8C-41A0-B029-A44EB3930F2E@rpi.edu>
Thanks, Daniel.
Uniformly applying the "qualified/unqualified" pattern on time seems a bit absurd, so I will withdraw the ISSUE.
PROV-O uses the qualified pattern to fulfill PROV-DM, and we'll leave the niche prov:usedAt xsd:dateTime to someone as an extension.
I closed the issue.
-Tim
On Mar 14, 2012, at 7:20 PM, Daniel Garijo wrote:
> Hi Tim,
> given that now Start, End, Generation and Usage are "InstantaneusEvents" in the ontology, can we close this issue?
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
> 2012/3/4 Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu>
> Luc,
>
> The intent for this issue is to uniformly apply the unqualified / qualified patterns that has had some success in prov-o.
> I remember this example being discussed at F2F, and am working from that impetus.
>
> To answer your question about different times, the property can assume multiple values for the same subject:
>
> :input_1 prov:usedAt "2012-03-03T21:04:54-05:00",
> "2012-03-04T10:58:04-05:00" .
>
> But I now realize that the property should be reversed to suit our standing goals [1], specifically "directionality of the triple should point to the Element that "existed earlier""
>
> :dataSet
> prov:usedEntityAt "2012-03-03T21:04:54-05:00", "2012-04-04T21:04:54-05:00";
> prov:used :input_1, :input_2;
> prov:qualified [
> a prov:Usage;
> prov:entity :input_1;
> prov:atTime "2012-03-03T21:04:54-05:00";
> ], [
> a prov:Usage;
> prov:entity :input_2;
> prov:atTime "2012-04-04T21:04:54-05:00"
> ];
> .
>
>
> The largest motivation for applying the unqualified / qualified pattern to time is to avoid a level of indirection for Activity start and end times.
> Requiring the TimeInstant indirection is going to cause nontrivial practical issues with respect to query times and duplicate results.
>
> I've started eg-14 [2] so that we can stay concrete in this ISSUE.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
>
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ProvRDF#Mapping_goals
> [2] http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/a7e1c279eb6c/examples/eg-14-unqualified-and-qualified-times/rdf/eg-14-unqualified-and-qualified-times.ttl
>
>
> On Mar 4, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Luc Moreau wrote:
>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> Can you handle two usages at different times for a same entity? I fear that a property usedAt does not allow for this.
>>
>> Professor Luc Moreau
>> Electronics and Computer Science
>> University of Southampton
>> Southampton SO17 1BJ
>> United Kingdom
>>
>> On 4 Mar 2012, at 02:09, "Timothy Lebo" <lebot@rpi.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, the page cut me short:
>>>
>>> Time can be incrementally qualified, just like the binary relations.
>>>
>>> The following pattern could be used for started, ended, used, and wasGeneratedAt:
>>>
>>>
>>> :input_1 prov:usedAt "2012-03-03T21:04:54-05:00" .
>>> :input_2 prov:usedAt "2012-04-04T21:04:54-05:00" .
>>>
>>> :dataSet
>>> prov:used :input_1, :input_2;
>>> prov:qualified [
>>> a prov:Usage;
>>> prov:entity :input_1;
>>> prov:atTime "2012-03-03T21:04:54-05:00";
>>> ], [
>>> a prov:Usage;
>>> prov:entity :input_2;
>>> prov:atTime "2012-04-04T21:04:54-05:00"
>>> ];
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/mid/E1RtEkN-0003xz-Ik@tibor.w3.org
>>>
>>> http://www.w3.org/mid/CAKc1nHfd8B1a9m=eKCACQJpNZgGR1GJdaiDpNpnTxqycb4LDUA@mail.gmail.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Tim
>>>
>>> On Mar 3, 2012, at 9:05 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
>>>
>>>> PROV-ISSUE-280 (TLebo): {started,ended,used,wasGenerated}At <-> prov:qualified [ prov:atTime ] pattern [Ontology]
>>>>
>>>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/280
>>>>
>>>> Raised by: Timothy Lebo
>>>> On product: Ontology
>>>>
>>>> Time can be incrementally qualified, just like the binary relations.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> :dataSet
>>>> prov:used :input_1, :input_2;
>>>> prov:usedAt "2012-03-03T21:04:54-05:00", "2012-04-04T21:04:54-05:00";
>>>> prov:qualified [
>>>> a prov:Usage;
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://www.w3.org/mid/E1RtEkN-0003xz-Ik@tibor.w3.org
>>>>
>>>> http://www.w3.org/mid/CAKc1nHfd8B1a9m=eKCACQJpNZgGR1GJdaiDpNpnTxqycb4LDUA@mail.gmail.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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