[esip-semantictech] Linked Data Notifications (LDN) and Software Implementations

[Mcgibbney, Lewis J (398M)]

Hi Tom,
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From: "Narock, Thomas" <tnarock at ndm.edu>
Date: Friday, January 18, 2019 at 8:57 AM
To: "Mcgibbney, Lewis J (398M)" <Lewis.J.McGibbney at jpl.nasa.gov>
Cc: "esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org" <esip-semanticweb at lists.esipfed.org>
Subject: Re: Linked Data Notifications (LDN) and Software Implementations

Hi Lewis,

I agree there are lots of interesting use cases for a Linked Data Notifications (LDN) architecture across ESIP projects. Thanks for keeping this discussion moving forward.

Our particular use case deals with provenance and its PROV encoding. We are interested in using PROV to encode climate resilience and climate mitigation decisions. There at least 3 efforts underway to semantically encode decision making [1][2][3]. [1] extends PROV to include decision related concepts. [2] is built off of formal decision theory research, but, as far as I can tell, it only currently exists in UML. USGS is interested in [2] and there seems to be efforts underway to encode it in OWL with possible links to PROV. In [1] Nick Car showed that [3] could be rewritten purely in PROV so we’ve been focusing on [1] as a lightweight encoding of decisions and following the progression of [2] for more detailed decision encoding. We’ll soon be submitting to COR our proposed extensions of [1] to make it more specific for climate decisions.

OK cool. Are you planning to mint your own domain name space or are you just going to have COR generate URI’s for you?

The connection to LDN is that once these provenance documents exist, we’d like to have a repository to submit them to

Which data format will the documents be in? COR can handle the following
JSON-LD

https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/

RDF/XML

https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/

Notation3

https://www.w3.org/TeamSubmission/n3/

N-TRIPLE

https://www.w3.org/TR/n-triples/

TURTLE

https://www.w3.org/TeamSubmission/turtle/

OWL/XML

https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-xml-serialization/

RDF/JSON

https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-json/



and a means of notifying interested parties that a new decision exists. We think LDN is a straightforward means of providing these capabilities. Ultimately, we’d like to compare climate decision provenance and provide suggestions/recommendations for decision makers facing similar situations. Although, that seems outside the scope of LDN and would be a service built on top of it.

Yes I agree.

I would also mention that there’s another W3C spec (this one is a Note, not a Recommendation) called PROV-AQ, Provenance Answer and Query. Doug Fils and I looked at that one in the past for provenance submission and discovery. Having looked at both, I think LDN can provide the same functionality, is easier to implement, and works with JSON-LD, which a lot of developers are comfortable with. I think our use case would move forward faster with LDN, and the LDN spec aligns well with other ESIP use cases.

I agree. I am also confident that we could use COR to host any LDN as they are serialized as JSON-LD.

If you were to stand up an LDN instance I think we’d have a number of people willing to try it out.

OK, so I think we should do just that then.
Lewis
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