Re: PROV-ISSUE-90 (namespace-in-ontology): Namespace used in ontology [Formal Model]

Hi Luc,

Do you think it is necessary to go into that much detail for the ASN? I 
just wonder how detailed an ASN has to be specified to serve it's function?

cheers,
Paul

Luc Moreau wrote:
> Hi Stian,
>
> We wrote a note in the report about the nature of<identifiers>, and whether
> there are indeed URIs.  This choice has not been confirmed by the WG yet.
> If indeed we go for URIs, then all identifiers in examples eg. pe0, a1,
> a5 ...
> will have to become uris.
>
> We wanted as well to get some feedback on the qualified names, literals,
> namespaces
> (and possibly default namespace).  The example may have to be adjusted
> once this is
> all confirmed.
>     eg: prov:type="foaf:Person" ...
>
> So, in the example you quoted, really, in the prov namespace we would have:
>
> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/wasControlledBy
> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/qualifier
> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/role
> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/entity
> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/type
> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/wasDerivedFrom
>
>
> Cheers,
> Luc
>
> On 10/20/2011 03:30 PM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 14:52, Graham Klyne<GK@ninebynine.org>   wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any particular reason that PROV-DM needs to define a namespace URI?
>>>
>>> Doesn't the material there all stand on the abstract syntax model, which
>>> doesn't depend on URI-based namespaces?
>>>
>>> Just asking.
>>>
>> ProvenanceContainer() [1] allows declaration of prefixes and
>> namespaces [2], which lends the question of which namespace qualifiers
>> such as "role" are in.
>>
>>
>> [3] says:
>> "All the elements, relations, reserved names and attributes introduced
>> in this specification belong to the PROV-DM namespace."
>>
>> But from this also all the examples are also in the default namespace,
>> so from this understanding that would mean that:
>>
>> wasControlledBy(pe0,a1, qualifier(role="creator"))
>> entity(a5, [ type="Person", name="Edith" ])
>> wasDerivedFrom(e4,e2,pe2,qualifier(port=smtp,
>> section="attachment"),qualifier(fct="attach"))
>>
>> We can find
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/wasControlledBy
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/pe0 #??
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/a1 #??
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/qualifier
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/role
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/creator #??
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/entity
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/type
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/Person #??
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/name #!!
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/wasDerivedFrom
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/port #!!
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/smtp #!! - no "quotes"!
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/section #!!
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/smtp #??
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/fct #!!
>> http://www.w3.org/ns/prov-dm/attach #??
>>
>>
>> I can't see how this is right. The PROV-ASN syntax does not allow
>> non-string attributes or qualifiers, but here is port=smtp suggesting
>> that they can be non-literal identifiers. (which would be namespaced?)
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-prov-dm-20111018/#ProvenanceContainer
>> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-prov-dm-20111018/#expression-NamespaceDeclaration
>> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-prov-dm-20111018/#prov-dm-namespace
>>
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Received on Thursday, 20 October 2011 14:47:22 UTC