Re: reviewer feedback on prov-o ontology

I guess my point is that implementations should support incomplete
knowledge. It should be possible for the implementations to represent (and
check) incomplete or otherwise invalid data. This is going to be especially
critical to support interchange of scruffy provenance.

Jim

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk>wrote:

> **
> Hi Jim,
> I didn't say it was a bug. I said it was not aligned.
>
> It's a feature, maybe, but that's not expressible in prov-dm, which means
> that other implementations e.g. java, xml, or whatever would not
> understand that feature.
>
> So, from an ontological viewpoint, a nice feature, but one that does not
> help with
> interoperability.
>
> Luc
>
>
> On 02/23/2012 02:21 PM, Jim McCusker wrote:
>
> 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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