- From: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:35:00 +0000
- To: public-prov-wg@w3.org
Dear all, Kind reminder for these proposals. I was hoping to incorporate changes in the document as soon as possible. Thanks, Luc On 01/11/2012 01:27 PM, Luc Moreau wrote: > Dear all, > > The email below was sent just before Xmas. It's now time to try and > reach some decisions > about it. Can you express your support for the following proposals in > the usual way. > Deadline: Jan 15, midnight. > > Cheers, > Luc > > On 12/21/2011 10:11 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: >> PROV-ISSUE-206 (agent-asserted-not-inferred): agents should not be >> inferred, and wasAssociatedWith should also work with entities [prov-dm] >> >> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/206 >> >> Raised by: Luc Moreau >> On product: prov-dm >> >> >> >> Inference >> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/ProvenanceModel.html#association-agent >> >> originates back from an agreement at F2F1, where we said that agents >> can be inferred from wasControlledBy. >> >> The inference was kept, and wasControlledBy replaced by >> wasAssociatedWith. >> >> However, I think this has undesirable consequences. For instance, in >> the example that follows constraint >> http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/ProvenanceModel.html#wasStartedBy, >> >> we see that an entity (a request to create an activity) is inferred >> to become >> an agent because of the above inferences. >> >> There are many notions of agents out there, and we should go for >> minimum semantic commitment in prov-dm to facilitate adoption. >> Inferring agent is likely to be suspicious in some communities. >> >> Hence, proposal 1: remove inference association-agent from the document. >> >> Furthermore, for the example above to type correctly, >> >> proposal 2: allow wasAssociatedWith to relate an activity and an entity >> >> proposal 3: allow two forms for wasAssociatedWith: >> wasAssociatedWith(activity, agent, plan, attributes) >> and >> wasAssociatedWith(activity, entity, attributes) >> >> >> Cheers, >> Luc >> >> >> >> > -- Professor Luc Moreau Electronics and Computer Science tel: +44 23 8059 4487 University of Southampton fax: +44 23 8059 2865 Southampton SO17 1BJ email: l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk United Kingdom http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~lavm
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