- From: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:01:01 +0000
- To: Stian Soiland-Reyes <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk>
- CC: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>, Paul Groth <p.t.groth@vu.nl>, "www-archive@w3.org" <www-archive@w3.org>
I agree. Respec.js could also change under our feet and force us to make changes. Professor Luc Moreau Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom On 26 Feb 2013, at 09:48, "Stian Soiland-Reyes" <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > Ah, so it's just a problem with the wrong predicate for the > self-provenance in the HTML.. like: > > <link rel="http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#hasProvenance" > href="http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/provenance/prov-dm"> > > in https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/releases/PR-prov-dm-20130312/Overview.html > > > I'm not a W3C guy, but I would assume fixing such minor HTML-syntactic > issues which are not part of defining the spec (pretty non-normative!) > should be OK, at least before the publication day. > > > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Luc Moreau <l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: >> It's in the <link> element we added last week. >> >> >> On 26/02/2013 09:40, Ivan Herman wrote: >>> >>> Graham, >>> >>> I am not sure I understand something. >>> >>> I have looked at the prov-o document, and that document does not mention >>> the prov:hasProvenance term. Ie, where does this term appear in any of the >>> four Rec-track documents? More importantly, does it appear, if it does, in a >>> normative section? >>> >>> Ivan >>> >>> >>> On Feb 26, 2013, at 10:30 , Graham Klyne<GK@ninebynine.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> [I'm keeping this off-list for now, because if Ivan says there's nothing >>>> we can do at this juncture, I see little point in opening the issue for >>>> wider discussion. I am cc'ing www-archive so there's a record of our >>>> discussion.] >>>> >>>> This is a bit embarrassing, given an email I wrote just a couple of days >>>> ago. >>>> >>>> I'm working through comments on PROV-AQ, and Stian has raised the >>>> following: >>>> >>>> [[ >>>> 32) According to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#section-4.2 >>>> >>>> When extension relation types are compared, they MUST be compared as >>>> strings (after converting to URIs if serialised in a different >>>> format, such as a Curie [W3C.CR-curie-20090116]) in a case- >>>> insensitive fashion, character-by-character. Because of this, all- >>>> lowercase URIs SHOULD be used for extension relations. >>>> >>>> Should we not have relation URIs that are all lowercase to avoid >>>> problems? ie. >>>> >>>> Link:<http://acme.example.org/provenance/super-widget>; >>>> rel="http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#hasprovenance" >>>> ]] >>>> >>>> I had completely missed this in RFC5988, and had forgotten about Stian's >>>> comment when I replied a couple of days ago. >>>> >>>> If we hadn't just been through the incorporation of provenance links into >>>> the published documents, I'd suggest changing "hasProvenance" to >>>> "has_provenance" to avoid the problems noted. >>>> >>>> So, what now? I see a few options: >>>> >>>> (a) keep the same name, and simply note that, when used as a link >>>> relation, prov:hasProvenance is compared case-insensitively. >>>> (b) if it's not too late, change the property name >>>> (c) define a second property that is all lowercase, and declared >>>> equivalent to the first. >>>> >>>> As far as I can tell, the main consequence of going with option (a) is >>>> that we MUST NOT in future define a different property/relation >>>> prov:hasprovenance, as under some circumstances covered by RFC5988, this >>>> would be indistinguishable from prov:hasProvenance. >>>> >>>> Given where we now are, my inclination would be to stay with things as >>>> they are, but add a note reserving the all lower-case versions of >>>> prov:hasProvenance, etc., from future use because of the case insensitivity >>>> comparison requirement. >>>> >>>> #g >>>> -- >>>> >>> >>> >>> ---- >>> Ivan Herman, W3C Semantic Web Activity Lead >>> Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ >>> mobile: +31-641044153 >>> FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf.rdf >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> >> > > > > -- > Stian Soiland-Reyes, myGrid team > School of Computer Science > The University of Manchester
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