Re: Tim's approach on Involvement

On Feb 22, 2012, at 2:22 AM, Luc Moreau wrote:

> Hi Tim,  all
> 
> I think it is not desirable to express such a form of involvement.
> The class Involvement is introduced, as far as I understand, as a way of structuring the ontology.
> I don't think it should become a construct of the DM.

That's a shame, because it could be a great opportunity to permit extensibility.

-Tim



> So I see this class as "abstract" in OO terminology.
> 
> Professor Luc Moreau
> Electronics and Computer Science
> University of Southampton 
> Southampton SO17 1BJ
> United Kingdom
> 
> On 21 Feb 2012, at 17:09, "Timothy Lebo" <lebot@rpi.edu> wrote:
> 
>>> However super-properties and super-classes make it look like you can
>>> use them directly. It now looks like you can say:
>>> 
>>> :entity1 prov:qualified [
>>> a prov:EntityInvolvement;
>>> prov:entity :entity2;
>>> prov:hadTemporalExtent :t .
>>> ] .
>>> 
>>> - but this is a half-baked statement where you don't know if we're
>>> talking about derivation, attribution or quotation. All  you can
>>> conclude is :entity1 prov:involved :entity2.  Perhaps that's a useful
>>> statement in a few applications, but for most parts it would be silly.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Do you see this as a show stopper? I don't think it is.
>> 
>> -tim
>> 
> 

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