notes about using strings directly- contextualization note.
authorTim L <lebot@rpi.edu>
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:13:43 -0400
changeset 2320 1a7d883e143e
parent 2319 0bc71f2565d5
child 2322 663f227c4436
notes about using strings directly- contextualization note.
bestpractices/BestPractices.html
--- a/bestpractices/BestPractices.html	Mon Apr 16 09:06:15 2012 -0400
+++ b/bestpractices/BestPractices.html	Mon Apr 16 09:13:43 2012 -0400
@@ -1133,6 +1133,7 @@
 
       <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/Content-in-RDF10/">Content in RDF</a> can be used to model string values while maintaining the datatype/objectproperty distinction and complying with PROV-O.
       Also,  resource can use the rdf:value property to store the string value. We recommend NOT using a blank node, but to derive the URI from the string itself (using a hash) or just a UUID.
+      Note that altough the "extra resource" may appear to be an undesirable level of indirection, it allows for the arbitrary contextualization that is central to PROV. When describing this strings provenance, we're not talking about that string as it appears anywhere, but as it appeared to the activty using it at the time we're describing.
    
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 @prefix cnt: &lt;http://www.w3.org/2008/content#&gt; .