[Esip-preserve] A Minor Note on Nomenclature

[Curt Tilmes]

On 08/24/2010 04:23 PM, alicebarkstrom at verizon.net wrote:
> While I used the term "Representation Network" to accord
> with the formal use of the CASPAR project for digital artifacts
> that are used to preserve information, the more appropriate
> term from the OAIS RM is "Context Information". The latter
> is probably the better term and keeps the meaning closer
> to what I believe is used by the Open Provenance Model,
> as well as the record created by recording the artifacts
> actually used in production history in the papers by Frew
> and Bose, as well as my recent paper in ESI.

I like "Context Information" for certain artifacts.

Would you characterize the information I called "audit" as
"Provenance" or "Context"?

>      >Audit: I got file X from organization Q on Jan 7, 2010 at 4:50pm. I
>      >compiled A on host H with compiler C version 7.2. I started the
>      >process on Jan 17 at 2:25pm on host X. It ran for 27 minutes and used
>      >50 MB of memory.

Curt