Dan Ponti

It seems to me that the generic term "sample" should incorporate anything collected or created (and ultimately tested or observed) regardless of state or material type - eg. soil, rock,...

Consider SamplingActivity as a separate class of object? Too often in the geotechnical community we conflate the act of obtaining a sample with the definition of a sample itself. This...

If we want to try to follow O&M's semantics, we should only use the term MaterialSample in the context of something tangible, since O&M reserves the term Sample as a...

Suggested definitions: Subsample - a MaterialSample derived from another MaterialSample as a direct result of a SamplingActivity. Specimen - a MaterialSample derived from another MaterialSample as part of the process...

Suggestion for CPT Sensor object, influenced by structure I proposed in #58 : ( "@iot.id": 1, "sensorType": "Ideally an entry of a controlled vocabulary to identify the type of test...

I agree that the use of Fault is in more common usage and fits the definition above.

My impression is that a shear displacement structure is a specialization of a discrete discontinuity - eg. a discontinuity as a result of displacement across the interface. Or is the...

Sorry for the long post. At first I thought this was a silly question, but it's actually important, and I changed my mind about 3 times when writing this. A...

As an aside, as a geologist as opposed to a geotechnical engineer I find it curious that many of my (at least US) engineering colleagues commonly constrain the use of...

Finally, should we create a borehole core as a specialization? If we classify a borehole core as a MaterialSample, I would say no, since MaterialSample already contains attributes to define...