On Aug 28, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote: > I seem to recall seeing a presentation a couple of years ago from someone in > the intelligence community, where they'd keep all of their intelligence, but > they stored RDF quads so they could track the source. > > They'd then assign a confidence level to each source, so they could get an > overall level of confidence on their inferences. > […] > It's possible that it was in the context of provenance, but I'm getting > bogged down in too many articles about people storing provenance information > using RDF-triples (without actually tracking the provenance of the triple > itself)
Provenance is of great importance in the IC and related sectors. An good overview of the nature of evidential reasoning is David A Schum (1994;2001). Evidential Foundations of Probabilistic Reasoning. Wiley & Sons, 1994; Northwestern University Press, 2001 [Paperback edition]. There are usually papers on provenance and associated semantics at the GMU Semantic Technology for Intelligence, Defense, and Security (STIDS). This years conference is 23 - 26 October 2012; see http://stids.c4i.gmu.edu/ for more details. Simon
