Changes to prov:Dictionary

prov-wg (and prov-dm editors),

I've reviewed all of the materials (that I can find) regarding collective concerns about prov:Dictionary, and 
have committed changes to the latest PROV-O owl and html to address those concerns:

* https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/ontology/Overview.html
* http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/ontology/ProvenanceOntology.owl

The changes are summarized here:

http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/index.php?title=Eg-34-us-supreme-court-membership&oldid=7905#PROV-O_changes_made.2C_inspired_by_this_example

and repeated here:
 Added class prov:Collection, as subclass of Entity
Added property prov:hadMember domain prov:Collection range prov:Entity.
This supports both generic "simple set" prov:Collection and prov:Dictionary.
Made KeyValuePair a subclass of Entity
this follows from Set Collection :c prov:hadMember :my_member and the definition of Collection "A collection is an entity that has some members. The members are themselves entities").
Renamed prov:membership to prov:qualifiedMembership to follow qualification pattern naming.
prov:Membership became subclass of prov:EntityInvolvement (though, it could become subclass of prov:KeyValuePairInvolvement, itself a subclass of prov:EntityInvolvement. But we'll try to simplify and reuse prov:entity)
prov:member renamed to prov:pair and became a subproperty of prov:involvee
Added property chain (qualifiedMembership o prov:pair) rdfs:subClassOf prov:hadMember
Added prov:removed domain prov:Removal range prov:KeyValuePair
Removed prov:CompleteDictionary from DM and PROV-O.



You'll notice the prov-o modeling of Dictionaries is not consistent with latest prov-dm.

The prov-o team would like to ask the prov-dm editors to reconsider how collections and dictionaries are defined, so that they reflect the latest prov-o modeling of the PROV concepts.

Regards,
Tim Lebo





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Received on Tuesday, 5 June 2012 22:18:02 UTC