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| author | Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org> | 2019-02-14 12:24:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org> | 2019-02-14 12:24:55 -0800 |
| commit | 76ac2a96a6bd3910f8f4af18f79b539b1d29edf9 (patch) | |
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provenance, not progeny
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diff --git a/fatcat-rfc.md b/fatcat-rfc.md index d79f682d..13466df2 100644 --- a/fatcat-rfc.md +++ b/fatcat-rfc.md @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ content. The goal is to have a very permissively licensed database: CC-0 (no rights reserved) if possible. Under US law, it should be possible to scrape and pull in factual data from other corpuses without adopting their licenses. The goal -here isn't to avoid attribution (progeny information will be included, and a +here isn't to avoid attribution (provenance information will be included, and a large sources and acknowledgments statement should be maintained and shipped with bulk exports), but trying to manage the intersection of all upstream source licenses seems untenable, and creates burdens for downstream users and @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ Bots need to be tuned to have appropriate edit group sizes (eg, daily batches, instead of millions of works in a single edit) to make human QA review and reverts managable. -Data progeny and source references are captured in the edit metadata, instead +Data provenance and source references are captured in the edit metadata, instead of being encoded in the entity data model itself. In the case of importing external databases, the expectation is that special-purpose bot accounts are be used, and tag timestamps and external identifiers in the edit metadata. @@ -198,12 +198,12 @@ type, with tables like `work_revision` not `entity_revision`): ident (entity_ident foreign key) new_revision (entity_revision foreign key) previous_revision (optional; points to entity_revision) - extra: json blob for progeny metadata + extra: json blob for provenance metadata editgroup editor_id description - extra: json blob for progeny metadata + extra: json blob for provenance metadata Additional entity-specific columns would hold actual metadata. Additional tables (which would reference both `entity_revision` and `entity_id` foreign |