Re: Provenance as a first-class citizen

On 2006-03-17, ben syverson wrote:

> Even if you're simply referencing the original, my issue is that the 
> assertions contained within are implicitly trusted, and not 
> attributed.

What's the difference between...

<statement #1.1> <you> <trust> <statement #2.1>
<statement #1.2> <you> <trust> <statement #2.2>
...
<statement #2.1> <me> <first-name> <Sampo>
<statement #2.1> <me> <last-name> <Syreeni>
...

...and...

<file of statements #1> <you> <trust> <file of statements #2>
...
<file of statements #2> <me> <first-name> <Sampo>
<file of statements #2> <me> <last-name> <Syreeni>
...

...besides the means of aggregation and/or brevity?

I mean, I certainly wouldn't trust just any .rdf file I can find on the 
net, and neither does the RDF layer cake suggest I should, at least 
without a proper digital signature on the file and a chain of trust from 
me to the signature. The chain of trust can then be encoded in triples 
as shown above, and the special case where one needs to refer to just 
parts of a document can be handled via reification proper.
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Received on Friday, 17 March 2006 22:59:13 UTC