Re: PROV-ISSUE-321 (dgarijo): Instances of involvements can be expressed without a subclass. [Ontology]

I propose to close this, as it overlaps with ISSUE-264 which has already been closed.

-Tim

On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:48 PM, Timothy Lebo wrote:

> Luc,
> 
> It is true that:
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> :blah a prov:Involvement .
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> is a valid statement in prov-o.
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> Since this issue was raised, all Involvements were "flattened" into ActivityInvolvement, EntityInvolvement, and AgentInvolvement -- each of which is a subclass of Involvement.
> This structure is the foundation of qualifications, and I am concerned that remove it will reduce understandability and thus adoption.
> 
> I believe this concern was also aligned with the "lose" prov:qualified property that could point at any Involvement.
> With prov:qualified replaced by its sub properties with specific ranges to prov:Usage, etc., is this issue less of a concern?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
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> 
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> On Mar 14, 2012, at 8:37 PM, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
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>> PROV-ISSUE-321 (dgarijo): Instances of involvements can be expressed without a subclass. [Ontology]
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>> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/321
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>> Raised by: Luc Moreau
>> On product: Ontology
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>> 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.
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Received on Wednesday, 28 March 2012 00:52:05 UTC