proposals for wd5
authorLuc Moreau <l.moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:55:48 +0000
changeset 1832 b13a1116a6d3
parent 1831 dcbf8abae7fc
child 1833 4ce174cf13b7
proposals for wd5
model/working-copy/wd5-prov-dm-misc.html
--- a/model/working-copy/wd5-prov-dm-misc.html	Fri Mar 09 08:35:44 2012 +0000
+++ b/model/working-copy/wd5-prov-dm-misc.html	Fri Mar 09 08:55:48 2012 +0000
@@ -216,7 +216,13 @@
 
 <p>It is proposed to  introduce an explicit event that marks the end of an entity characterization interval. Some suggested that it could be a "destruction" event, others felt the term destruction is too strong, but no alternate term has been proposed so far.</p>
 
-<p id="proposal1"><b>PROPOSED</b>: to introduce a prov-dm concept that marks the end of an entity lifetime. Its name remains to be determined (e.g. destruction, expiration, final usage, invalidate/invalidation ...). </p>
+<p id="proposal1"><b>PROPOSED</b>: to introduce a prov-dm concept that marks the end of an entity lifetime. Its name remains to be determined. </p>
+
+<p><em>Suggested names:</em>
+<ul>
+<li> destruction, <li>expiration, <li>final usage, <li>invalidate/invalidation 
+<li> lostFormBy
+</ul>
 
 <p>For now, DESTRUCTION is used as <em>placeholder name</em></p>
 
@@ -298,11 +304,12 @@
 
 
 
-<p>An activity start<span class="withAsn">, written <span class="pnExpression">wasStartedBy(id,a,e,attrs)</span> in PROV-ASN,</span> contains:</p>
+<p>An activity start<span class="withAsn">, written <span class="pnExpression">wasStartedBy(id,a,e,t,attrs)</span> in PROV-ASN,</span> contains:</p>
 <ul>
 <li><span class='attribute'>id</span>:  an OPTIONAL identifier for the activity start;</li> 
-<li><span class='attribute'>activity</span>: an identifier for the started activity;
-<li><span class='attribute'>trigger</span>: an identifier for the entity triggering the activity;
+<li><span class='attribute'>activity</span>: an identifier for the started activity;</li> 
+<li><span class='attribute'>trigger</span>: an identifier for the entity triggering the activity;</li> 
+<li><span class='attribute'>time</span>: the time at which the activity was started; </li> 
 <li><span class='attribute'>attributes</span>: an OPTIONAL set of attribute-value pairs describing modalities according to which the activity was started.
 </ul>
 
@@ -312,15 +319,20 @@
 <pre class="codeexample">
 entity(e1,[prov:type="email message"])
 activity(a1,[prov:type="Discuss"])
-wasStartedBy(a1,e1)
+wasStartedBy(a1,e1,2011-11-16T16:05:00)
+</pre>
+Furthermore, if the activity happens to consume the message content, then the message would also be regarded as an input to the activity, which we describe as follows:
+<pre class="codeexample">
+used(a1,e1)
 </pre>
 </div>
 
-<p>An activity end<span class="withAsn">, written <span class="pnExpression">wasEndedBy(id,a,e,attrs)</span> in PROV-ASN,</span> contains:</p>
+<p>An activity end<span class="withAsn">, written <span class="pnExpression">wasEndedBy(id,a,e,t,attrs)</span> in PROV-ASN,</span> contains:</p>
 <ul>
 <li><span class='attribute'>id</span>:  an OPTIONAL identifier for the activity end;</li> 
 <li><span class='attribute'>activity</span>: an identifier for the ended activity;
 <li><span class='attribute'>trigger</span>: an identifier for the entity triggering the activity ending;
+<li><span class='attribute'>time</span>: the time at which the activity was ended; </li> 
 <li><span class='attribute'>attributes</span>: an OPTIONAL set of attribute-value pairs describing modalities according to which the activity was ended.
 </ul>
 
@@ -351,6 +363,7 @@
 </pre>
 
 <li>
+How would wasStartedBy/wasEndedBy relate to wasInformedBy?
 </ul>