- From: David Wood <david@3roundstones.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:35:59 -0400
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: public-rdf-prov@w3.org
On Sep 21, 2011, at 18:46, Sandro Hawke wrote: > On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 11:55 -0400, David Wood wrote: >> Hi Sandro, >> >> Can you please explain how and whether this use case differs from: >> http://www.w3.org/2011/rdf-wg/wiki/TF-Graphs-UC#FOAF_Use_Case > > The main difference is the FOAF use case makes it sound like a rather > odd and trivial bit of functionality -- how often do you actually want > to query a group of people to find out how old a specific person is? > Some of us do the generalization in their head, but it seemed clear > during the meeting that not everyone was doing that. Hopefully my > version makes the point that much serious use of the Semantic Web falls > under this use case and that it is no way odd or trivial. > > I think most of the other use cases are also either variations on this > -- cases where the consumer needs to handle separate graphs with > different provenance -- or are infrastructure along the way to those use > cases. Yes, that makes sense. I think the FOAF use case (and perhaps others) should be replaced in favor of your more general one to avoid confusion. Do you agree? Regards, Dave
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