- From: Luc Moreau <l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:44:00 +0100
- To: public-prov-wg@w3.org
Hi all, This issue is now closed. Luc On 15/05/12 16:06, Luc Moreau wrote: > Hi all, > > I didn't see support for dropping tracedTo from prov-dm, or even making > it binary. > > Given this, I propose to close this issue, without any change to the > specification. > This means that tracedTo can be asserted. > > James, this may have implications on the constraints document. > > Regards, > Luc > > On 04/30/2012 12:02 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: >> PROV-ISSUE-370 (tracedTo-inference-only): Should tracedTo be moved to prov-constraints and be defined as a binary relation that can be inferred [prov-dm] >> >> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/370 >> >> Raised by: Luc Moreau >> On product: prov-dm >> >> >> TracedTo was introduced in the data model so as to have a transitive relation over derivations, etc. It can be inferred. In contrast, its definition as an assertion was not very compelling. In the latest version of prov-constraints, it is only defined as something that can be inferred. >> >> Really, it looks like a relation that is useful to express queries. >> >> So, in the spirit of simplification, should we move it out of prov-dm, and have it defined in prov-constraints only. >> >> At the same time, it could be simplified to a binary relation, since we have no way of inferring attributes for this relation. >> >> >> >> >> -- 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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