ISSUE-406: Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive
delegation-direction
Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive
- State:
- POSTPONED
- Product:
- Ontology
- Raised by:
- Stian Soiland-Reyes
- Opened on:
- 2012-06-11
- Description:
- After the rename from prov:Responsibility to prov:Delegation, I believe the PROV-O mapping of actedOnBehalfOf is non-intuitive with regards to the direction.
Consider the graph in
http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/Eg-37-delegation-direction
showing only the qualified relationship. If you read this intuitively, as someone who will find the RDF in the wild - it easily reads the wrong way.
I've discussed some potential solutions on that wiki page:
* Make <code>prov:hadDelegate</code> be the unqualified property and change the direction of <code>prov:Delegation</code>
** Should then be pretty obvious; would not have <code>prov:Agent</code> problem
** ..but wrong direction/term according to DM..
*** DM to change actedOnBehalfOf(responsible, delegate) to hadDelegate(delegate, responsible)?
* Use more specific properties like <code>prov:responsible</code> rather than confusing <code>prov:agent<code>
** but.. harder to identify the 'special' outgoing link of qualification
* Rename <code>prov:Delegation</code> and <code>prov:qualifiedDelegation</code>
** prov:Delegate ?
** prov:ActedOnBehalfOf ?
** .. ?
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Stian Soiland-Reyes
- Related Actions Items:
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- Related emails:
- Re: PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] (from p.t.groth@vu.nl on 2012-07-05)
- Re: PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] (from lebot@rpi.edu on 2012-07-05)
- Re: PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] (from Khalid.Belhajjame@cs.man.ac.uk on 2012-07-05)
- Re: PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] (from lebot@rpi.edu on 2012-07-04)
- Re: PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] (from lebot@rpi.edu on 2012-07-02)
- PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2012-06-11)
Related notes:
Lack of time :-(
Timothy Lebo, 3 Jul 2012, 01:20:04Display change log