Re: PROVO-O in QUDT

Ralph,

On Nov 4, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Ralph TQ [Gmail] <rhodgson@topquadrant.com> wrote:

> Tim,
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> I consider both properties, prov:wasInfluencedBy and prov:wasInformedBy, semantically close.  Colloquially, one states that something was 'informed by" something else.



> In QUDT we want to say what guided or even contributed wholesale to a unit description.

Got it.


> The domain and range of prov:wasInformedBy are both prov:Activity, whereas in QUDT, I am clearly speaking of an (abstract) Entity.

Agreed.


>  If were were to run an inference Units would become Activities.  To avoid this incorrect inference, we need to use prov:wasInfluencedBy.


What about prov:wasDerivedFrom? 
Its domain and range is Entity. 
Here, your subject Entity is a unit description and it was derived from (what appears to be) parts of a web page from which you took some information.

Does that work for you?


> But that, to my way of thinking, has weaker semantics.

You're right. "weaker" in the sense that its domain and range are "any" of the main three PROV classes.


> Albeit a small point but a source of confusion that can lead to wrong inferences.

You're right to look at the inferences that follow, but I think the fix is in finding a sibling of wasInformedBy that suits your Entity derivations.

Regards,
Tim


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> On Nov 4, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu> wrote:
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>> Ralph,
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>> Thanks for your comment regarding the confusion between wasInfluencedBy and wasInformedBy.
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>> As you point out in your email and in your diagram, wasInformedBy is a restricted sub property of wasInfluencedBy.
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>> Could you elaborate on what can be "easily confused"?
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>> You mention that you notice the confusion when extending PROV-O with your ontology. Could you provide an example that helps highlight the confusion?
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>> Finally, do you have any suggestions for what the working group can do to clarify the distinction between the two properties?
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>> Thanks for your help. We're happy to make changes to the documents, we just need to know a bit more about what we need to address.
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>> Regards,
>> Tim
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>> p.s. We've assigned your comment to the issue https://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/592
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>> On Nov 2, 2012, at 1:03 PM, Ralph TQ [Gmail] <rhodgson@topquadrant.com> wrote:
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>>> PROVO-O properties prov:wasInfluencedBy and prov:wasInformedBy are easily confused. We notice this when we are describing what has 'informed' what in descriptions and other assertions in QUDT. 
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>>> The diagram below, from TopBraid, shows the schema associated with these properties.  prov:wasInformedBy has a restricted domain and range over its super-property prov:wasInfluencedBy. Perhaps the rationale for this is somewhere in the working group postings?
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>>> <Screen Shot 2012-11-02 at 9.59.31 AM.png>
>>> Ralph Hodgson, @ralphtq
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>>> CTO, TopQuadrant, @TopQuadrant
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