- From: Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 11:27:35 -0400
- To: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-prov-wg@w3.org
On May 15, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Luc Moreau wrote: > Sorry, for the confusing message. > > The text currently says: > An agent MAY be a particular type of entity. > > > Instead, I am proposing that we write: > An agent MAY be a particular type of entity OR ACTIVITY. +1 Since we don't' seem to have a reason to constrain it, and the point of the last step (Agent no longer subClassOf Entity) was to allow the flexibility, why not do the same for Activity? Regards, Tim > > > Regards, > Luc > > On 05/15/2012 04:03 PM, Luc Moreau wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Agents are no longer a subclass of entity. >> >> >> The text currently says: >> An agent MAY be a particular type of entity or activity. >> >> >> Instead, I am proposing that we write: >> An agent MAY be a particular type of entity or activity. >> >> >> In other words, the proposal is that Agent and Activity are not disjoint classes. >> This offers flexibility to asserters. I don't think there has been a strong case >> for making those classes disjoint. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> Luc >> >> >> On 04/02/2012 10:53 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: >>> PROV-ISSUE-337 (agent-and-entity): agent should not be a subclass of entity [prov-dm] >>> >>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/337 >>> >>> Raised by: Luc Moreau >>> On product: prov-dm >>> >>> Currently, prov-dm defines agent as follows: >>> >>> An agent is a type of entity that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place. An agent is a particular type of Entity. This means that the model can be used to express provenance of the agents themselves. >>> >>> While it is nice to be able to express the provenance of agents, it is not obvious to me that agents should always be entities. In fact, they could be activities. >>> >>> Consider a collaboration activity, to which several agents ag1, ag2, ..., agn are associated. Why can't we see it as an agent too? >>> activity(collaboration) >>> wasAssociatedWith(collaboration,agi,contract) >>> >>> agent(collaboration) >>> wasAttributed(nice-piece-of-work,collaboration) >>> >>> >>> So, I would propose the following alternative definition: >>> >>> >>> An agent is something that bears some form of responsibility for an activity taking place. >>> >>> A given agent may be a particular type of Entity or Activity. This means that the model can be used to express provenance of the agents themselves. >>> >>> >>> Looking at prov-o, I notice that they have already defined an agent as subclass of owl:Thing. >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > > -- > Professor Luc Moreau > Electronics and Computer Science tel: +44 23 8059 4487 > University of Southampton fax: +44 23 8059 2865 > Southampton SO17 1BJ email: l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk > United Kingdom http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm > > >
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