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premis:RightsBasis should be a subclass of prov:Agent/prov:Entity/prov:Activity ? #6

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@remiColletGG

Hello there,

I am investigating to use premis/prov to describe data governance at my company (Infrabel, the Belgian railway infrastructure manager).

According to premis' guidelines (https://www.loc.gov/standards/premis/ontology/pdf/premis3-owl-guidelines-20220426.pdf) on page 12 :

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One should link premis:RightsBasis to prov:Agent using prov:wasInfluencedBy (or its inverse property, but let's use this example).
However, prov:wasInfluencedBy https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/#wasInfluencedBy clearly describes that the domain and range of the property should be a prov:Agent/prov:Entity/prov:Activity. According to https://id.loc.gov/ontologies/premis-3-0-0.html#c_RightsBasis, premis:RightsBasis is not subclassed to any of the three.

While prov-o heavily implies that we should use a more specialized version of prov:wasInfluencedBy, it still looks like premis is bending the rules a little too much here, and should mint its own property to relate a premis:RightsBasis to a prov:Agent (both ways, of course).

To be clear, my use case would look something like :

ex:DataOwnerRights a premis:RightsBasis ;
    premis:governs ex:DataSetABC ;
    prov:wasAttributedTo ex:Michael .

ex:Michael a prov:Agent .

ex:DataSetABC a premis:Object .

Am I misunderstanding something here ? Should I mint my own property to link my ex:DataOwnerRights to a prov:Agent ?

Thanks anyway for this ontology that is in line with a w3c standard, and for the thorough documentation. It is truly a thing of beauty and I am thankful that we have ontologists like you who work for the greater good !

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