Do you mean the element that is generated into the header of the HTML? If that 
is the only place it appears, I think we can change that for the published PR 
document before handing it over to the webmaster.

Ivan

On Feb 26, 2013, at 10:42 , Luc Moreau <[email protected]> wrote:

> It's in the <link> element we added last week.
> 
> On 26/02/2013 09:40, Ivan Herman wrote:
>> Graham,
>> 
>> I am not sure I understand something.
>> 
>> I have looked at the prov-o document, and that document does not mention the 
>> prov:hasProvenance term. Ie, where does this term appear in any of the four 
>> Rec-track documents? More importantly, does it appear, if it does, in a 
>> normative section?
>> 
>> Ivan
>> 
>> 
>> On Feb 26, 2013, at 10:30 , Graham Klyne<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> 
>>   
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> [I'm keeping this off-list for now, because if Ivan says there's nothing we 
>>> can do at this juncture, I see little point in opening the issue for wider 
>>> discussion.  I am cc'ing www-archive so there's a record of our discussion.]
>>> 
>>> This is a bit embarrassing, given an email I wrote just a couple of days 
>>> ago.
>>> 
>>> I'm working through comments on PROV-AQ, and Stian has raised the following:
>>> 
>>> [[
>>> 32) According to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#section-4.2
>>> 
>>> When extension relation types are compared, they MUST be compared as
>>>   strings (after converting to URIs if serialised in a different
>>>   format, such as a Curie [W3C.CR-curie-20090116]) in a case-
>>>   insensitive fashion, character-by-character.  Because of this, all-
>>>   lowercase URIs SHOULD be used for extension relations.
>>> 
>>> Should we not have relation URIs that are all lowercase to avoid problems?  
>>> ie.
>>> 
>>> Link:<http://acme.example.org/provenance/super-widget>;
>>>           rel="http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#hasprovenance";
>>> ]]
>>> 
>>> I had completely missed this in RFC5988, and had forgotten about Stian's 
>>> comment when I replied a couple of days ago.
>>> 
>>> If we hadn't just been through the incorporation of provenance links into 
>>> the published documents, I'd suggest changing "hasProvenance" to 
>>> "has_provenance" to avoid the problems noted.
>>> 
>>> So, what now?  I see a few options:
>>> 
>>> (a) keep the same name, and simply note that, when used as a link relation, 
>>> prov:hasProvenance is compared case-insensitively.
>>> (b) if it's not too late, change the property name
>>> (c) define a second property that is all lowercase, and declared equivalent 
>>> to the first.
>>> 
>>> As far as I can tell, the main consequence of going with option (a) is that 
>>> we MUST NOT in future define a different property/relation 
>>> prov:hasprovenance, as under some circumstances covered by RFC5988, this 
>>> would be indistinguishable from prov:hasProvenance.
>>> 
>>> Given where we now are, my inclination would be to stay with things as they 
>>> are, but add a note reserving the all lower-case versions of 
>>> prov:hasProvenance, etc., from future use because of the case insensitivity 
>>> comparison requirement.
>>> 
>>> #g
>>> --
>>>     
>> 
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