ISSUE-406: Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive

delegation-direction

Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive

State:

POSTPONED

Product:

Ontology

Raised by:

Stian Soiland-Reyes

Opened on:

2012-06-11

Description:

After the rename from prov:Responsibility to prov:Delegation, I believe the PROV-O mapping of actedOnBehalfOf is non-intuitive with regards to the direction.


Consider the graph in

http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/Eg-37-delegation-direction

showing only the qualified relationship. If you read this intuitively, as someone who will find the RDF in the wild - it easily reads the wrong way.


I've discussed some potential solutions on that wiki page:


* Make <code>prov:hadDelegate</code> be the unqualified property and change the direction of <code>prov:Delegation</code>
** Should then be pretty obvious; would not have <code>prov:Agent</code> problem
** ..but wrong direction/term according to DM..
*** DM to change actedOnBehalfOf(responsible, delegate) to hadDelegate(delegate, responsible)?
* Use more specific properties like <code>prov:responsible</code> rather than confusing <code>prov:agent<code>
** but.. harder to identify the 'special' outgoing link of qualification
* Rename <code>prov:Delegation</code> and <code>prov:qualifiedDelegation</code>
** prov:Delegate ?
** prov:ActedOnBehalfOf ?
** .. ?


--
Stian Soiland-Reyes

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1. Re: PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] (from p.t.groth@vu.nl on 2012-07-05)
2. Re: PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] (from lebot@rpi.edu on 2012-07-05)
3. Re: PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] (from Khalid.Belhajjame@cs.man.ac.uk on 2012-07-05)
4. Re: PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] (from lebot@rpi.edu on 2012-07-04)
5. Re: PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] (from lebot@rpi.edu on 2012-07-02)
6. PROV-ISSUE-406 (delegation-direction): Direction of prov:Delegation is non-intuitive [Ontology] (from sysbot+tracker@w3.org on 2012-06-11)

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