Re: PROV-ISSUE-493: prov:type has type Value; valid values too general, include number, datetime, boolean, etc. [prov-dm]

Hi all,

Following last week's resolution
http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/meeting/2012-09-20#resolution_2
I am now closing this issue.

Regards,
Luc

On 04/09/2012 18:18, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
> PROV-ISSUE-493: prov:type has type Value; valid values too general, include number, datetime, boolean, etc. [prov-dm]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/493
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> Raised by: Stephan Zednik
> On product: prov-dm
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> The value of prov:type is a Value (http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/#term-value) which has the following definition:
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> A value ◊ is a constant such as a string, number, time, qualified name, IRI, and encoded binary data, whose interpretation is outside the scope of PROV. Values can occur in attribute-value pairs.
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> Each kind of such values is called a datatype. Use of the following data types is recommended.
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> The RDF-compatible [RDF-CONCEPTS] types, including those taken from the set of XML Schema Datatypes [XMLSCHEMA11-2];
> Qualified names introduced in this specification.
> The normative definitions of these datatypes are provided by their respective specifications.
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> This means that numbers, datetimes, booleans, and unstructured strings are valid values of prov:type.  The prov value section on RDF compliance also seems to suggest there should be a prov:type datatype property in prov-o, which to my knowledge does not currently exist.
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> So my question is, are we ok with numbers, datetimes, booleans as valid values of prov:type?  All of the examples in the DM document appear to use qnames for values of prov:type.
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> Second, is there support for a proposal to restrict values of prov:type to qnames?
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