Fwd: PROV-O: Review Sam Coppens

Thanks, Sam, for your feedback.

Tracker, this is ISSUE-336

-Tim


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Sam C <samcoppens.werk@gmail.com>
> Subject: PROV-O: Review Sam Coppens
> Date: April 11, 2012 8:20:34 AM EDT
> To: Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu>
> 
> Hello Tim,
> 
> Below you can find the review. It looks very good and I could only point out some minor things. I recommend it as a public working draft.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Sam
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> Review PROV-O
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> The document provides certainly a good overview of the design elements of PROV-O. It is well structured and easy to understand and to follow. PROV-O and PROV-DM complement each other. Since prior knowledge of PROV-DM is a must, I would insert a link to that document in the ontology. It is essential background information and provides the rationale behind certain design elements of the PROV-O ontology. The examples are not essential in understanding the PROV-O ontology, so I would only include these examples in the html document of PROV-O, not in the ontology itself.
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> The PROV-O documentation can be released the next public working draft.
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> Some minor comments:
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> Section 3.1: PROV-O distinguishes between two kinds of dependencies which are specified using the properties wasInformedBy and wasStartedBy --> wasStartedByActivity. wasStartedBy is an expanded property, thus I think using wasStartedByActivity is more appropriate.
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> Section 3.4: Here, prov:Collection is defined. This section needs a motivation why prov:Collection is introduced and why no other collection representation is chosen.
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> Section 4.2: specializationOf Can`t this property be made transitive? If not, a motivation would clarify this.
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> Section 4.2: wasRevisionOf Is a revision directly related to the previous `version` of an entity? If not, this property can be made transitive.
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