- From: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:06:52 +0000
- To: Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu>
- CC: Graham Klyne <graham.klyne@zoo.ox.ac.uk>, Provenance Working Group WG <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
Hi Tim On 01/26/2012 11:09 PM, Timothy Lebo wrote: > On Jan 26, 2012, at 4:29 AM, Luc Moreau wrote: > > >> Hi Graham, >> >> >> >>>> Proposal 3: Derivation, Association, Responsibility chains, >>>> Traceability, Activity Ordering, Revision, Attribution, Quotation, >>>> Summary, Original SOurce, CollectionAfterInsertion/Collection After >>>> removal belong to the universe of discourse. >>>> >>> I'm inclined to say not, but I'm not sure I understand the proposal >>> >> Can I turn the proposal into a question: in the prov-o ontology, I think we >> are going to have a class QualifiedDerivation (TBC). An instance of QualifiedDerivation, >> will it be an object of the universe of discourse? >> > Yes. But only because a QualifiedDerivation is an Activity (though others disagree on this). > > I don't think it's the case at all. A given activity may be the cause of many derivations, and vice-versa a given derivation may be due to 1 or more derivations. For this reason, I don't think a QualifiedDerivation is an Activity. Luc > -Tim -- 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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