I have had a quick look at the PROV ontology and found that there is a fundamental gap between the conceptualisation used and ours.
The things I have spotted so far are 1]They regard the physical and digital world as fundamentally the same. 2] In one example they state that a car moving from A to B uses up an instance of "Car in A" and creates an instance of "Car in B" which breaks all the monotonicity rules that we have come to know and cherish. 3] They consider software to be an Agent in the same way as people or Companies are. I have not looked further at the DC/PROV mapping but will do Should the CRM SIG offer comments on either PROV or the DC/PROV mapping or both? Thoughts, comments etc Rgds SdS Stephen Stead Tel +44 20 8668 3075 Mob +44 7802 755 013 E-mail <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] LinkedIn Profile <http://uk.linkedin.com/in/steads> http://uk.linkedin.com/in/steads From: DCMI Architecture Forum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stuart Sutton Sent: 17 March 2013 00:15 To: [email protected] Subject: DCMI Call for Comments: Mapping from Dublin Core to W3C PROV ontology The DCMI Metadata Provenance Task Group [1] is collaborating with the W3C Provenance Working Group [2] on a mapping from Dublin Core terms to the PROV provenance ontology [3], currently a W3C Proposed Recommendation. More precisely, the document describes a partial mapping from DCMI Metadata Terms [4] to the PROV-O OWL2 ontology [5] -- a set of classes and properties usable for representing and interchanging information about provenance. Numerous terms in the DCMI vocabulary provide information about the provenance of a resource. Translating these terms into PROV relates this information explicitly to the W3C provenance model. The mapping is currently a W3C Working Draft. The final state of the document will be that of a W3C Note, to be published as part of a suite of documents in support of a W3C Recommendation for provenance interchange [6]. DCMI would like to point to the W3C Note as a DCMI Recommended Resource and therefore encourages the Dublin Core community to provide feedback and take part in the finalization of the mapping. The deadline for all comments is 7 April 2013. We recommend that comments be provided directly to the public W3C list for comments: [email protected] [7], ideally with a Cc: to DCMI's dc-provenance list [8]. Comments sent only to the dc-provenance list will be summarized on the W3C list and addressed, and discussions on the W3C list will be summarized back on the dc-provenance list when appropriate. Stuart Sutton, Managing Director, DCMI [1] http://dublincore.org/groups/provenance/ [2] http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/wiki/Main_Page [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/WD-prov-dc-20130312/ [4] http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ [5] http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ [6] http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/ [7] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-prov-comments/ [8] https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=dc-provenance -- Stuart A. Sutton Managing Director, Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Associate Professor Emeritus, Information School of the University of Washington Email: [email protected] Skype: sasutton
