The JISC funded CLOCK project did some thinking around cataloguing processes and tracking changes to statements and/or records - e.g. http://clock.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2012/05/23/its-a-model-and-its-looking-good/
Not solutions of course, but hopefully of interest Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: [email protected] Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 28 Aug 2012, at 19:43, Simon Spero <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
