- From: Stephan Zednik <zednis@rpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 09:52:45 -0600
- To: Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu>
- Cc: Stian Soiland-Reyes <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk>, Provenance Working Group <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
Is this issue ready to be closed? --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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