Prov-WD: Wrong object in agent role descriptions

Ole Streicher ole at aip.de
Tue Jul 9 12:50:46 CEST 2019


Hi again,

agents are used in certain roles by the WasAssociatedWith or
WasAttributedTo classes (pg. 19), with WasAttributedTo meaning the
association to an unspecified activity:

"When an entity is attributed to an agent, this entity was generated by
some unspecified activity that in turn was associated to the agent."

This implies that the role of an agent is always a role of an
association of the agent to an activity (either a specific one:
WasAssociatedWith, or an unspecific one: WasAttributedTo).

However, looking into table 9 (pg.21), most of the agent roles are here
*not* related to the activity, but to an entity ("agent curated this
entity"). This is IMO misleading; all roles should be defined in
relation to the (specified or unspecified) activity.

Best regards

Ole


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