On 30/09/2011 11:06, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: > But what is the point of introducing prov:Time and prov:Location > classes if they have no properties and no relation to anything else in > the ontology? So they can be used as placeholder superclasses for generic applications that process and/or present provenance data without necessarily understanding the specific application-specific descriptions of time and/or location used? For example, a generic application could display rdfs:label/rdfs:description values associated with a generic time/location class without knowing how to process the specific associated values. #g -- > If it's out of scope, but we still want to say something rough about > it, we should at least introduce a proper anchoring point, like we are > (trying to) do with Role. If not then we should leave it out > completely. (Which I would not personally like, because asserting when > something happened is a quite crucial part of provenance - when its > known). > > > > For reference, here are some time/event ontologies: > > http://motools.sourceforge.net/timeline/timeline.html > http://motools.sourceforge.net/event/event.html > http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/ > >Received on Monday, 17 October 2011 17:49:47 GMT
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