- From: Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:53:07 +0100
- To: public-prov-wg@w3.org, Yolanda Gil <gil@ISI.EDU>
Hi Yolanda, Can we close this issue? Luc On 03/09/2012 04:58 PM, Luc Moreau wrote: > Hi Yolanda, > > Following the release of WD4.internal, I believe this issue is now > addressed. > See > http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/raw-file/default/model/releases/WD-prov-dm-20120309/prov-dm.html#prov-dm-example > > > I propose to close the issue now. > Let us know what you think. > Regards, > Luc > > On 10/20/2011 07:45 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote: >> PROV-ISSUE-132 (YolandaGil): Improve the examples to make them more >> intuitive and of broader appeal in Provenance Data Model (PROV-DM) >> Draft [Data Model] >> >> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/132 >> >> Raised by: Yolanda Gil >> On product: Data Model >> >> It seems to me we are using non-intuitive or incomplete notions in >> the examples, which will make our documents that much harder to be >> understood and therefore the standard adopted. I would suggest to >> use one or two scenarios of broad interest, for example publishing a >> web page that has diverse and rich content, or an example with linked >> data. >> >> For instance, in Section 4.2: It says "A file is read by a process >> execution". The fact that a file being read is a ProcessExecution >> seems to me to be a very contrived example (I don't think we've ever >> discussed a provenance scenario where file reading was considered, >> because there are other more pressing processes to represent). >> >> Another case: if evt1, evt2, etc are timestamps, why not label them >> t1, t2, etc so they don't have a label that makes them look like events? >> >> Another case: Somewhere it mentions "spellchecked" as an attribute, >> if so we should really show how the spellchecker program plays a role >> in the provenance record so this attribute becomes so. >> >> Another case: all the examples of agents are people, but agents can >> be other things (eg the Royal Society that is used in another section). >> >> >> >> >> > -- 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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