Re: prov-wg: Another name for Qualified?

On Feb 17, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Paul Groth wrote:

> So concretely:
> 
> ex:a1 prov:generation ex:gen1.
> ex:gen1 a prov:Generation.
> ex:gen1 prov:entity ex:e1.
> 
> It just reads a bit odd to me because the predicate isn't a verb...
> 
> prov:involvedGeneration, while long "reads" well.

Yipes. That expands what "can be involved" from Activities \union Entities to also include Involvements.

Activities involved Involvements? Seems a little meta...
I woud say Activities involve Entities (and perhaps other Activities) - but not Involvements.

:: shrug ::

-Tim



> 
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Feb 17, 2012, at 23:09, Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Paul,
>> 
>> 
>> s/Qualified// on properties too
>> 
>> 
>> hadQualifiedXXX -> hadXXX
>> 
>> 
>> And if you said s/had// 
>> Then 
>> 
>> hadQualifiedXXX -> XXX
>> 
>> 
>> Professor Luc Moreau
>> Electronics and Computer Science
>> University of Southampton 
>> Southampton SO17 1BJ
>> United Kingdom
>> 
>> On 17 Feb 2012, at 21:51, "Paul Groth" <p.t.groth@vu.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Luc
>>> 
>>> I think we agree that Qualified shouldn't be in front of the class names. In the ontology they aren't.
>>> 
>>> The question is what the predicate should be between the activity and the Involvement subclass?
>>> 
>>> I'm open to suggestions.
>>> Paul
>>> 
>>> On Feb 17, 2012, at 22:35, Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Tim, Paul
>>>> Still in the spirit of simplification
>>>> 
>>>> used vs Usage
>>>> wasGeneratedBy vs Generation
>>>> 
>>>> Why do we need Qualified? If you say QualifiedGeneration, ... 
>>>> I always expect a UnqualifiedGeneration ..  But there is no such class.
>>>> 
>>>> s/Qualified//
>>>> 
>>>> Luc
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Professor Luc Moreau
>>>> Electronics and Computer Science
>>>> University of Southampton 
>>>> Southampton SO17 1BJ
>>>> United Kingdom
>>>> 
>>>> On 17 Feb 2012, at 18:57, "Timothy Lebo" <lebot@rpi.edu> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 17, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Paul Groth wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Tim, Jim,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I like the suggestion a lot. [English teacher verification is good :-) ] Indeed, I was thinking that all the "had" in the ontology were a bit verbose. A blank node may indeed be the best way solve it for having long types.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Blank nodes should not be any way to solve URI length (or any other problem; they should be avoided at all costs).
>>>>> Any occurrence of bnodes in my examples could  just as easily be URIs. I'm just using them for abbreviation to show the structure.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not sure how you interpreted my example as using bnodes to solve a length problem. Could you explain?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> A couple of questions in your examples:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - You have the prov:generated relationship but I don't see that in the ontology file although I do see it in the ProvRDF page? This is issue #98, which has no resolution http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/98
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for pointing that out. I agree with the issue and think that it should be added to the ontology as an owl:inverse of prov:wasGeneratedBy.
>>>>> (oh, I created the issue. Glad that I still agree with it!)
>>>>> Though, I'm expecting push back on an inverse being added to the ontology.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> - You use the relation prov:entity and not prov:hadQualifiedEntity.
>>>>> 
>>>>> prov:entity was the initial stand in. And I'm bringing it up again because it's a "whole lot shorter".
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> This also isn't in the ontology or this a suggestion?
>>>>> 
>>>>> resurrected suggestion.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> I'm trying to think of other shorter names that convey the same meaning as qualified involvement.
>>>>> 
>>>>> For the class or predicates? For the class, go "Involvement". Short.
>>>>> For the predicate, "qualifiedGeneration / Use" is worth the length in my opinion, because it parallels prov:generated / prov:used in a natural way.
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Tim
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Just for less typing but clearly I don't want to open a huge debate there.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> If anyone, comes up with suggestions that would be great. I'll try to think of some myself. But again this may be too picky
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> thanks for the quick response,
>>>>>> Paul
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Jim McCusker wrote:
>>>>>>> To be clear, we're using "qualified" as a verb, not a noun, which is why
>>>>>>> we can drop "had".
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Jim
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Feb 17, 2012 8:50 AM, "Timothy Lebo" <lebot@rpi.edu
>>>>>>> <mailto:lebot@rpi.edu>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 1)
>>>>>>> Although it doesn't shorten it up much, I think it is _much_ clearer
>>>>>>> if we drop "had".
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> prov:hadQualifiedGeneration -> prov:qualifiedGeneration
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This changes the statement from a passive to active, which will make
>>>>>>> all of my writing teachers happy.
>>>>>>> The Activity qualified its Generation.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> This also parallels the unqualified form nicely ("generated" and
>>>>>>> "qualifiedGeneration") -- a fork in the road with two routes that a
>>>>>>> client can follow, depending on how much detail they want.:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> :my_activity
>>>>>>> a prov:Activity;
>>>>>>> prov:generated :my_entity;
>>>>>>> prov:qualifiedGeneration [
>>>>>>> a prov:Generation;
>>>>>>> prov:entity :my_entity;
>>>>>>> :foo :bar;
>>>>>>> ]
>>>>>>> .
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 2)
>>>>>>> QualifiedInvolvement -> Involvement still makes _complete_ sense,
>>>>>>> since it is inherently qualifying the binary relation. Being an
>>>>>>> Involvement _means_ that you're being pointed at with some
>>>>>>> subproperty of prov:qualifiedInvolvement (e.g. qualifiedGeneration)
>>>>>>> AND you're pointing to the (rdf:object) involvee with, say, prov:entity.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> As for the predicates hanging off of the Involvement, we started
>>>>>>> with just:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> :my_activity prov:qualifiedGeneration [
>>>>>>> a prov:Generation;
>>>>>>> prov:entity :my_entity;
>>>>>>> ]
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> but we run into a slight hiccup when we're qualifying the
>>>>>>> Involvement between two Entities b/c we don't know which is the
>>>>>>> rdf:subject and which is the rdf:object of the binary relation we're
>>>>>>> qualifying. However, these situations start to leave core, and a
>>>>>>> qualified involvement between two entities should be some Activity,
>>>>>>> so we can avoid the degenerate Entity-Entity case.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -Tim
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Feb 16, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Paul Groth wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The idea behind QualifiedInvolvement is great and it's been
>>>>>>> resolved for a while so I don't want to open it up.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> but.... could we get a better name?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> The name is long, especially for the properties. So you have to
>>>>>>> write:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> ex:activity1 prov:hadQualifiedGeneration ex:g1.
>>>>>>>> ex:g1 prov:hadQualifiedEntity ex:e1.
>>>>>>>> ex:g1 prov:wasGeneratedAt [owlTime:inXSDDateTime
>>>>>>> 2006-01-01T10:30:00-5:00].
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> could we shorten them up somehow? Any suggestions?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>>>> Paul
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>