RE: further comments on IPV

Paulo,

I'm not sure you're confused J The wiki is indeed trying to capture the
case where A and B are different classes, e.g. Documents are not files.
I think your mapping to the same class case is on track (consistent with
the general case definition), but I don't know if it suggests a better
way to generalize than what's on the wiki. 

 

Jim

 

From: public-xg-prov-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-xg-prov-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Missier
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 10:52 AM
To: <public-xg-prov@w3.org>
Subject: further comments on IPV

 

Greetings,
  I am slowly catching up and I have decided to start from what is
recorded in the wiki rather than trying to playback  long and winding
threads.

sorry to vent, but I started with "Concept 'Invariant View or
Perspective on a Thing'" and I am already utterly confused. For a member
of the Model TF who is tasked with a synthesising and reconciling job,
this is not good :-)
So I appended some comments of my own here, which are mostly questions:
http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/ConceptInvariantViewOnThing#Comment_by_
PM__24_June_2011.3D

The main message is: I really feel the need for some precision, which
doesn't mean formalising at all costs, but at least picking a reference
framework for modelling: ER, objects, UML... something that has, er, a
clear semantics that one can build upon! (ok, so perhaps UML does not
qualify :-))

Regards, -Paolo