Re: Provenance/Justification

>  > >Yes.  The triples on the bio page are thrown in with the rest.  (I
>>  >suggested we may want to tag where they came from for
>>  >explanation/trust reasoning, some day soon.)
>>
>>  Yes, soon. I think tags like this would be handy for many engines, in
>>  fact.  Our graphic RDF/OWL editor needs to keep them around for more
>>  mundane reasons: even for writing simple markup, the user often wants
>>  to be able to check where a concept 'comes from'.
>>
>>  Maybe that would be a good architectural principle: SW concept names
>>  should always 'come from' a unique resource, which we might call the
>>  provenance of the name.
>
>Two different but related concepts here.  I was talking about tagging
>triples; you're talking about tagging names.   I'm thinking about
>"who/what made this claim".

OK, sorry I was sloppy there. We need both, actually. A lot of the 
heat in this discussion seems to come from the cases where they 
diverge, so A is asserting a triple using B's URI.

>
>>  Exactly what this means, and what
>>  relationships there might be between the resource they come from, the
>>  representations extracted from that resource using other Web
>>  protocols, and what the concept name should be understood to denote,
>>  can all be discussed at more length; but at least that would give us
>>  a piton to nail into the rock.
>
>Actually, I can't separate what you're talking about here from the
>general "what does a URI mean" question, sorry.

Oh, please.  Did I use the M-word anywhere in that? Ive been trying 
to find ways of completely avoiding ever saying 'meaning' when 
referring to URIs.  Provenances could be genuinely architectural. 
Meanings are another matter altogether.

Pat

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