- From: Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 11:52:27 -0400
- To: Stephan Zednik <lokipatera@gmail.com>
- Cc: Stian Soiland-Reyes <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk>, Provenance Working Group <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
On May 7, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Stephan Zednik wrote: > Is this issue ready to be closed? > I would say this can be closed in light of the vote last week to remove responsibility from derivation. But we will need to open a new issue to trim out wasQuoter et al. and to review prov-o HTML / provRDF, and sync with DM's revisions. Thoughts? -Tim > --Stephan > > On Apr 27, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Timothy Lebo wrote: > >> Stian, >> >> Did you change the ontology? >> If so, follow our agreed conventions: >> >> [owl changed] in an email subject >> include link to the hg commit >> reference the ISSUE (or, just reply to the issue thread) >> >> Thanks >> -Tim >> >> >> On Apr 27, 2012, at 11:04 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: >> >>> I've added prov:wasApprovedBy with domain prov:Revision and range >>> prov:Agent and suggest closing this issue. >>> >>> I'm modifying prov:Revision example. >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 00:14, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker >>> <sysbot+tracker@w3.org> wrote: >>>> PROV-ISSUE-366: Approving agent in a qualified wasRevisionOf [Ontology] >>>> >>>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/366 >>>> >>>> Raised by: Stephan Zednik >>>> On product: Ontology >>>> >>>> PROV-DM says an agent may be referenced in a Revision Record as the agent that approves that the former is a due variant of the later. >>>> >>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/#record-Revision >>>> >>>> 6.3 Revision Record >>>> >>>> A revision record is a representation of the creation of an entity considered to be a variant of another. Deciding whether something is made available as a revision of something else usually involves an agent who represents someone in the world who takes responsibility for approving that the former is a due variant of the latter. >>>> >>>> A revision record, written wasRevisionOf(e2,e1,ag,attrs) in PROV-ASN, contains: >>>> >>>> newer: an identifier e2 identifying an entity that represents a newer version of an entity; >>>> older: an identifier e1 identifying an entity that represents an older version of an entity; >>>> responsibility: an optional identifier ag for the agent who approved that e2 is a variant of e1; >>>> attributes: an optional set attrs of attribute-value pairs to further describe this record. >>>> >>>> Since prov:agent is a specialization of prov:involvee and is meant to represent the 'rdf:object' of the unqualified relation, I don't think prov:agent works as the relation to represent the approving agent. >>>> >>>> I think we need a new specialization of prov:involved to represent the approving agent of the derivation, perhaps prov:wasApprovedBy. >>>> >>>> Or, we can take this back to PROV-DM to get clarification on the intent for having an approving agent of a derivation relationship. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team >>> School of Computer Science >>> The University of Manchester >>> >>> >> >> >> > >
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