- From: Jim McCusker <mccusj@rpi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:20:58 -0400
- To: Luc Moreau <l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Cc: public-prov-wg@w3.org
I would add that we make it 100% clear that a BOB describes an Entity, but does not represent it. Jim On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Luc Moreau <l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote: > Agreed with your suggestions Khalid. > I would just avoid the word 'use' in the phrasing, given its occurrence in > the spec. > > Luc > > On 21/07/2011 19:49, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: >> >> PROV-ISSUE-32: Bob definition [Conceptual Model] >> >> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/32 >> >> Raised by: Khalid Belhajjame >> On product: Conceptual Model >> >> The definition of Bob states that >> >> "A BOB assertion is about a characterized entity, whose situation in the >> world is variant. A BOB assertion is made at a particular point and is >> invariant, in the sense that all the attributes are assigned a value as part >> of that assertion." >> >> I suggest to modify the definition as follows: >> >> "A BOB assertion is about a characterized entity, whose situation in the >> world *may be* variant. A BOB assertion is made at a particular point and is >> invariant, in the sense that *the attributes used to characterize the BOB* >> are assigned a value as part of that assertion." >> >> >> "is variant" -> "may be variant": there may be situations in which a >> given entity has only one characterization which spans the life time of that >> entity. >> "all attributes" -> "the attributes that characterize the BOB" or "the >> attributes associated with the BOB": this is to avoid people thinking that >> we have complete knowledge of all possible attribute that can be used to >> characterize the BOB. >> >> Khalid >> >> >> >> > > > -- Jim -- Jim McCusker Programmer Analyst Krauthammer Lab, Pathology Informatics Yale School of Medicine james.mccusker@yale.edu | (203) 785-6330 http://krauthammerlab.med.yale.edu PhD Student Tetherless World Constellation Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute mccusj@cs.rpi.edu http://tw.rpi.edu
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