- From: Paul Groth <pgroth@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:10:09 +0200
- To: Olaf Hartig <hartig@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
- CC: public-prov-wg@w3.org
Hi All: I would note that, we should look to what other existing approaches have done. Dublin Core defines Agent as: A resource that acts or has the power to act. Comment: Examples of Agent include person, organization, and software agent. FOAF defines it as: The|Agent <http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_Agent>|class is the class of agents; things that do stuff eg. person, group, software or physical artifact PREMIS: Agents are entities that have actied upon objects e.g. people, organizations I think it seems there is quite some agreement about what an agent means in the broader community. Paul Olaf Hartig wrote: > Hey Luc, > > On Tuesday 07 June 2011 23:34:51 Luc Moreau wrote: >> Hi Jun, Khalid, Satya, >> >> I have a few questions. >> >> 1. Can an agent be defined independently of processes? > > In the Provenance Vocabulary we defined it as "a general class that represents > active entities." (although we called it "actor" instead of "agent"). > > Cheers, > Olaf >
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