Re: Historical events

On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 10:59 AM Chaals Nevile <chaals@yandex.ru> wrote:

> On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 13:35:31 +0200, Richard Wallis <
> richard.wallis@dataliberate.com> wrote:
>
> HistoricalPeriod - I think there is some potential for a new type here,
> probably based upon Event (to follow Schema.org patterns) — describing The
> Jurassic Period, The Middle Ages, Elizabethan Era, the 1960’s, etc. needs
> some help from the vocabulary.
>
>
> I think it would be good to cover time periods better in general - as far
> as I know we haven't yet sorted out such things as businesses that open
> twice in a single day (as massive numbers do in Spain), so maybe time
> things are hard...
>
> Noting the problem of HistoricalEvent and when it happeed, I would suggest
> that HistoricalPeriod is a misnomer, and we want to describe time without
> making it relative to where we are now. Is "2020" or "the 46th presidency
> of the US" or "the Reign of King Charles II of England" an historical
> event? What about "the 21st century"? (If we switch to some other calendar
> that one migth get easier ;) ).
>
>
>

+1 I should be able to have a time period for my time at university without
it having to have historical significance.

- Vicki

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