Re: PROV-ISSUE-369 (drop-startByActivity): Should we drop wasStartedByActivity? [prov-dm]

My only worry I that people might use wasInformedBy to express this 'trigger' relationship between activities, without noticing the subtlety or choice. What does MacTed say about wasInformedBy?

Jun

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On 30 Apr 2012, at 11:57, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote:

> PROV-ISSUE-369 (drop-startByActivity): Should we drop wasStartedByActivity? [prov-dm]
> 
> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/369
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> Raised by: Luc Moreau
> On product: prov-dm
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> There are regular comments about wasStartedByActivity.
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> MacTed was saying why don't we also have wasStartedByAgent.
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> Someone else  was saying, why don't we have wasEndedByActivity? ... and ByAgent.
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> In the spirit of simplification, we could drop the concept.
> Whenever we want to write
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> wasStartedByActivity(a2,a2)
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> we would instead have to write
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> wasStartedBy(a2,e)
> wasGeneratedBy(e,a1)
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> for some entity.  
> 
> 
> Thoughts?
> Luc 
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