ISSUE-149: Why does revision record include an asserter?

revision-asserter

Why does revision record include an asserter?

State:
CLOSED
Product:
prov-dm
Raised by:
Simon Miles
Opened on:
2011-11-11
Description:
The Revision record contains its own asserter, but it is unclear why.

"Deciding whether something is made available as a revision of something else usually involves an agent who represents someone in the world who takes responsibility for declaring that the former is variant of the latter...

A revision record...
may refer to a responsible agent with identifier ag."

The agent appears to be just the entity deciding whether to make the assertion or not (whether one entity is a revision of another). This is no different from any other assertion: it is always in some asserter's perspective that the assertion is true. We don't include the asserter explicitly in Used, Generated, Derived or other records, so why do we for Revision?
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Related emails:
  1. Re: PROV-ISSUE-341 (revision-approver): revision approver - why? [prov-dm] (from lebot@rpi.edu on 2012-04-20)
  2. Re: PROV-ISSUE-341 (revision-approver): revision approver - why? [prov-dm] (from L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2012-04-11)
  3. Re: PROV-ISSUE-341 (revision-approver): revision approver - why? [prov-dm] (from lebot@rpi.edu on 2012-04-11)
  4. Re: PROV-ISSUE-341 (revision-approver): revision approver - why? [prov-dm] (from L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2012-04-11)
  5. Re: PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] (from L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2011-11-30)
  6. Re: PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] (from simon.miles@kcl.ac.uk on 2011-11-30)
  7. Re: PROV-ISSUE-161 (TLebo): Quotation: quoting agent should be done with Accounts [Data Model] (from L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2011-11-30)
  8. Re: PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] (from L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2011-11-30)
  9. Re: PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] (from L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2011-11-21)
  10. Re: PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] (from lebot@rpi.edu on 2011-11-21)
  11. Re: PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] (from lebot@rpi.edu on 2011-11-21)
  12. Re: PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] (from simon.miles@kcl.ac.uk on 2011-11-13)
  13. Re: PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] (from simon.miles@kcl.ac.uk on 2011-11-11)
  14. Re: PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] (from L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2011-11-11)
  15. Re: PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] (from simon.miles@kcl.ac.uk on 2011-11-11)
  16. Re: PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] (from L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk on 2011-11-11)
  17. PROV-ISSUE-149 (revision-asserter): Why does revision record include an asserter? [Data Model] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2011-11-11)

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