Re: reviewer feedback on prov-o ontology

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

> Furthermore, the ontology allows for instances of involvements to be
> expressed, without
> specifying its subclass (Usage, Generation, etc). This is not aligned with
> the data model.
>

This is a feature, not a bug. Even if Involvement were defined as
equivalent to the union of subclasses, it would still be possible (and
consistent) to assert that something is an Involvement without saying what
the subclass is. We simply wouldn't know.

Jim
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