--- a/model/comments/wd6-Graham.txt Tue May 29 12:33:39 2012 +0100
+++ b/model/comments/wd6-Graham.txt Tue May 29 13:57:16 2012 +0100
@@ -326,7 +326,21 @@
> designed in Japan> ]]
>
-Yes.
+After adding this example, I removed it since I am not sure it works.
+
+activity(ex:purchasing)
+activity(ex:designing)
+wasGeneratedBy(ex:design, ex:designing)
+wasDerivedFrom(ex:car,ex:design)
+wasDerivedFrom(ex:carInShowRoom, ex:car)
+used(ex:purchasing, ex:carInShowRoom)
+
+
+
+<!-- The activity of purchasing a
+ car in Boston can be informed by the the activity of its being
+ designed in Japan.-->
+
>
> == After section 2.1.1 ==
@@ -601,7 +615,7 @@
>
> I'd still like to see derivations immediately follow entities/activities. :)
-I swapped component 2 and 3.
+I swapped components 2 and 3.
>
> Figure 4: I don't know what this is trying to tell me.
@@ -609,22 +623,40 @@
> What is the significance of vertical stacking and/or horizontal alignment.
>
> Figure 5: uses UML, but at one point I was looking for cardinality indicators (1:1, 1:N, N:M, etc.)
+
+Paolo, can you tell me what to add? where? What's the UML default?
+
+
>
> == Section 5.1.1 ==
>
> Definition of entity seems a bit clumsy, but not problematic.
+
+Was agreed by WG.
+No change here.
+
>
> == Section 5.1.2 ==
>
> An activity may be "... associated ..." with an entity? Seems like an
> unfortunate overloading of terminology. Suggest drop "being
> associated with" ... it's not trying to be an exhaustive list.
+
+There was no overloading, that's the same association.
+However, agreed, it doesn't have to be exhaustive. I dropped it.
+
>
> "An activity is not an entity" - I think you said otherwise further up (see previous email).
>
+
+Not to my knowledge. It was about agent.
+
> == Section 5.1.3 ==
>
> "This entity did not exist before..." jarred a little for me. I'd suggest "was not available for use before ..."
+
+What's the problem with this? The sentence already say "becomes available for usage ..."
+
>
> == Section 5.1.4 ==
>
@@ -636,6 +668,13 @@
> "/Communication/ is the exchange of information by two activities, in
> the form of an unspecified entity, one activity using information
> generated by the other"
+
+The exchanged entity may not be digital.
+
+I updated the definition as follows
+
+"Communication is the exchange of an UNSPECIFIED entity by two activities, one activity using SOME entity generated by the other."
+
>
> As I recall, this assertion implies the existence of an entity or
> entity-derivation-entity chain from one to the other. Hmmm... Is the
@@ -643,6 +682,8 @@
> activity to the other, rather than possibly indirectly via intervening
> activities? The phrasing suggests this, but the example not so much
> (what bureaucratic process could be so simple?).
+
+
>
> == Section 5.1.6 ==
>
--- a/model/glossary.html Tue May 29 12:33:39 2012 +0100
+++ b/model/glossary.html Tue May 29 13:57:16 2012 +0100
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
<span class="glossary" id="glossary-activity">
An <dfn id="concept-activity">activity</dfn>
is something that occurs over a period of time and acts upon or with entities;
-it may include consuming, processing, transforming, modifying, relocating, using, generating, or being associated with entities.
+it may include consuming, processing, transforming, modifying, relocating, using, or generating entities.
</span>
<span class="glossary" id="glossary-agent">
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
</span>
<span class="glossary" id="glossary-communication">
-<dfn id="concept-communication">Communication</dfn> is the exchange of an entity by two activities, one activity using the entity generated by the other.
+<dfn id="concept-communication">Communication</dfn> is the exchange of an unspecified entity by two activities, one activity using some entity generated by the other.
</span>
--- a/model/glossary.js Tue May 29 12:33:39 2012 +0100
+++ b/model/glossary.js Tue May 29 13:57:16 2012 +0100
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
// with <script src="glossary.js" class="remove"></script>
//Insert glossary definitions with the following
// <div class="glossary-ref" ref="glossary-generation"></div>
-glossary_hg='http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/3cc96f394c1c/model/glossary.html';
+glossary_hg='http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/prov/file/51c1fe338db9/model/glossary.html';
glossary_string=
' ' +
'<html> ' +
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-activity"> ' +
'An <dfn id="concept-activity">activity</dfn> ' +
' is something that occurs over a period of time and acts upon or with entities; ' +
-'it may include consuming, processing, transforming, modifying, relocating, using, generating, or being associated with entities. ' +
+'it may include consuming, processing, transforming, modifying, relocating, using, or generating entities. ' +
'</span> ' +
' ' +
'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-agent"> ' +
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
'</span> ' +
' ' +
'<span class="glossary" id="glossary-communication"> ' +
-'<dfn id="concept-communication">Communication</dfn> is the exchange of an entity by two activities, one activity using the entity generated by the other. ' +
+'<dfn id="concept-communication">Communication</dfn> is the exchange of an unspecified entity by two activities, one activity using some entity generated by the other. ' +
'</span> ' +
' ' +
' ' +
--- a/model/prov-dm.html Tue May 29 12:33:39 2012 +0100
+++ b/model/prov-dm.html Tue May 29 13:57:16 2012 +0100
@@ -695,9 +695,6 @@
<p>
The activity of writing a celebrity article was informed by (a
communication instance) the activity of intercepting voicemails.
- The activity of purchasing a
- car in Boston can be informed by the the activity of its being
- designed in Japan.
</div>