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Managing multiscale and multi-witness provenance is often assumed to involve relatively straight-forward matters of matching identifiers and recognizing composite processes and aggregate artifacts. However, the issue is much more complex and related to millennia of debate over the nature of objects and processes in the world. This work develops a set of concrete examples where such issues arise in provenance, discusses the core conceptual distinctions involved, and postulates a basic mechanism for extending provenance models to enable integration across granularities and process types, recognizing the OPM ‘agent’ concept as a special case.
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Myers, J.D. (2010). I Think Therefore I Am Someone Else: Understanding the Confusion of Granularity with Continuant/Occurrent and Related Perspective Shifts. In: McGuinness, D.L., Michaelis, J.R., Moreau, L. (eds) Provenance and Annotation of Data and Processes. IPAW 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6378. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17819-1_37
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