Which datatype to use for time intervals from Svensson, Lars on 2013-11-12 (public-lod@w3.org from November 2013)

From: Svensson, Lars <L.Svensson@dnb.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 14:47:51 +0000
To: "'public-lod@w3.org' (public-lod@w3.org)" <public-lod@w3.org>
Message-ID: <24637769D123E644A105A0AF0E1F92EFA43A9939@dnbf-ex1.AD.DDB.DE>

Is there a standard (recommended) datatype to use when I want to specify a time interval (e. g. 2013-11-13--2013-11-14)? The XML Schema types [1] don't include a time interval format (unless you want to encode it as starting time + duration). There seems to be a way to encode it using ISO 8601, the Wikipedia says that intervals can be expressed as 'Start and end, such as "2007-03-01T13:00:00Z/2008-05-11T15:30:00Z"' [2], but I haven't found a formally defined datatype to use with RDF data.

[1] www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_intervals


Thanks for any help,

Lars

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