- From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:29:21 +0200
- To: "Dan Brickley" <danbri@danbri.org>
- Cc: "Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)" <skw@hp.com>, "Pat Hayes" <phayes@ihmc.us>, RDFa <public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org>, "www-tag@w3.org WG" <www-tag@w3.org>, "Ed Summers" <ehs@pobox.com>
On Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:53:37 +0200, Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org> wrote: >> What I meant was, I am unsure of the value of being able to say that a >> primary topic has a temporal dimension, if you can't say that about >> anything else in RDF. > > There's a trick here. Choose your properties with care. > > The foaf:mbox property, for example, has built in temporal constraints. Well, recognising that it has a temporal dimension still doesn't let you do anything about it. > Even though we can't decorate RDF instance data with triple-by-triple > temporal annotations (and would we really want to?) I think not, and that is why I think the temporal part of ttdb: doesn't answer sufficient a need. We could of course introduce properties wasPrimaryTopicOf willBePrimaryTopicOf shouldHaveBeenPrimaryTopicOf just to be on the safe side. Steven
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