Hi Dan,
Jun Zhao is leading the work with them to come up with a solution that
leverages the work on the Open Provenance Model as well as the
Provenance Vocabulary and feeds back into the W3C Provenance Incubator
Group. From my understanding, this is really critical for them and they
want something *soon*. So I think the right connections are there and
they will get something sooner rather than later.
Thanks,
Paul
Dan Brickley wrote:
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:53 AM, Ian Davis<[email protected]> wrote:
Kingsley,
You should address your question directly to the project organisers,
we're a technology provider and host some of the data but it is not up
to us when or where the dumps get shared. My understanding is that
because this is officially sanctioned data they want to ensure that
the provenance is built into the datasets properly. My hope and wish
is that the commitment to making dumps available will be built into
the guidelines the UK Government are working on. But those won't be
issued during this month because of the election.
Re their provenance requirements, do you know if the right people are
already engaged with the W3C Incubator on this topic; see various
links fwd'd in
http://lists.foaf-project.org/pipermail/foaf-dev/2010-April/010164.html
It would be very interesting if someone were prepared to digitally
sign the files; or at least to publish checksums on a trusted Web page
in RDFa. Lots of options that could be explored. BTW I get the
impression that similar concerns can be found in the library community
too, when publishing SKOS and wanting to make sure that extensions and
addons mixed into the data later are not mis-attributed to the
original source.
cheers,
Dan
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Dr. Paul Groth ([email protected])
http://www.few.vu.nl/~pgroth
Postdoc
Knowledge Representation & Reasoning Group
Artificial Intelligence Section
Department of Computer Science
VU University Amsterdam
