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- Our specification currently also has Split and Merge Activities, and I'd (Steven) like to propose that we remove them. The reasons being...
- Partial Splits and Merges will be difficult to make clear using these structures.
- We already have an established pattern of relying on dereferencing the entity URI and/or using RDF Patch for more complicated semantics.
- Datasets could represent this data how every they want in the entity description, but if they do this in a machine actionable way they could normalize it in the ActivityStream with
- useInstead for Deprecate Activities for full Replacement/Merges and full Splits (full Splits would have two or more useInstead statements)
- seeAlso for Updated Activities where the entity still exists but there is a partial Merge or partial Split.
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