Package org.openprovenance.prov.model

Interface AlternateOf

All Superinterfaces:

Relation, Statement, StatementOrBundle, UnqualifiedRelation

All Known Subinterfaces:

QualifiedAlternateOf

All Known Implementing Classes:

AlternateOf, QualifiedAlternateOf

public interface AlternateOf
extends Relation, UnqualifiedRelation

Interface for PROV Alternate association.

PROV-DM Definition for Alternate: Two alternate entities present aspects of the same thing. These aspects may be the same or different, and the alternate entities may or may not overlap in time.

Note that alternateOf is a necessarily very general relationship that, in reasoning, only states that the two alternate entities respectively fix some aspects of some common thing (possibly evolving over time), and so there is some relevant connection between the provenance of the alternates. In a specific application context, alternateOf, or a subtype of it, could allow more inferences.

Relevant Factory Methods:

• ProvFactory.newAlternateOf(QualifiedName, QualifiedName)
• ObjectFactory.createAlternateOf()

Schema Definition:

The following schema fragment specifies the expected content contained within this class.

 <complexType name="Alternate">
   <complexContent>
     <restriction base="{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}anyType">
       <sequence>
         <element name="alternate1" type="{http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#}IDRef"/>
         <element name="alternate2" type="{http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#}IDRef"/>
       </sequence>
     </restriction>
   </complexContent>
 </complexType>
 

Author:

lavm

See Also:

PROV-DM Alternate, PROV-O alternateOf, PROV-N Alternate, PROV-XML Alternate, PROV-JSON Alternate

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.openprovenance.prov.model.StatementOrBundle

StatementOrBundle.Kind

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
QualifiedName	getAlternate1()	Returns the identifier for the first of the two entities.
QualifiedName	getAlternate2()	Returns the identifier for the second of the two entities.
void	setAlternate1(QualifiedName entity)	Sets the identifier for the first of the two entities.
void	setAlternate2(QualifiedName entity)	Sets the identifier for the second of the two entities.

Methods inherited from interface org.openprovenance.prov.model.StatementOrBundle

getKind

Method Detail

setAlternate1

void setAlternate1(QualifiedName entity)

Sets the identifier for the first of the two entities.

Parameters:

entity - a QualifiedName for second entity

setAlternate2

void setAlternate2(QualifiedName entity)

Sets the identifier for the second of the two entities.

Parameters:

entity - a QualifiedName for second entity

getAlternate1

QualifiedName getAlternate1()

Returns the identifier for the first of the two entities.

Returns:

a QualifiedName

getAlternate2

QualifiedName getAlternate2()

Returns the identifier for the second of the two entities.

Returns:

a QualifiedName