datalink-terms

[Patrick Dowler]

Yes, there is some potential for confusion when just using a single 
word, but we have to balance that with what our user community will 
think when they see little camel-case phrases :-)

I guess stylistically we are usually saying the linked resource

    "is a #term of #this"

which ~works for all the top level terms we have:

"is a #preview of #this"

"is a #calibration for #this"

"is an #auxiliary (file) for #this"

"is a #derivation of #this"
"is a #progenitor of #this"

"is a #cutout of #this" (well, admittedly #proc is not so good :-)

etc.

Then we get to just use normal words instead of phrases. I see that is 
different from prov-dm, but we aren't trying to make a model, just a 
vocabulary... in a DM one would certainly label a relation with 
something more explicit.

Hope that makes sense. Is it sufficient to avoid confusion for our 
target audience?

Pat


On 22/10/14 03:14 AM, Kristin Riebe wrote:
>
> * #derivation for forward links:
> W3C uses the term "Derivation" in the passive form ("wasDerivedFrom",
> http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-dm/#term-Derivation), i.e. it is used there
> for pointing backwards to where something is coming from.
>
> So I would like to avoid confusion when just using #derivation and
> specify more explicitly that this is a forward link, e.g. using
> #derivedEntities or similar.

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