Re: Historical events

Thank you Manolis! I guess the question might be put this way: how to mark an event that occurs in the past or doesn’t have a specific time associated with it as an “Event” using Schema.org<http://Schema.org> vocabulary. Does a historical event need a new/different type, like http://schema.org/LiteraryEvent or http://schema.org/SportsEvent. Is there any development in this direction?


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On May 29, 2018, at 6:49 AM, Manolis Koubarakis <koubarak@di.uoa.gr<mailto:koubarak@di.uoa.gr>> wrote:

Hi Alison,
perhaps the closest to what you want is the
recent Time Ontology proposed in the context of a W3C/OGC
spatial data on the web working group. Please see
https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/


Best
Manolis



Thank you. I know about https://schema.org/Date, which I use for actual
dates. I was wondering specifically about events, and tried marking
historical events as events but that generated errors in the validator
because I didn’t have a time and location marked up. Event seems intended
for commercial events held in venues that one can buy tickets for. It
doesn’t seem to really fit for something that happened sometime in the
late Bronze Age—or  the Plague in London 1665-1666. It would be nice to be
able to specify that information because then I could select all
historical events in any particular text.

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On May 29, 2018, at 5:09 AM, chaals is Charles McCathie Nevile
<chaals@yandex.ru<mailto:chaals@yandex.ru><mailto:chaals@yandex.ru>> wrote:

You can use https://schema.org/Date for various properties that are dates,
and currently it says it is "an ISO 8601 date". Which, given the proposed
update to that standard, **might** mean you can use an uncertain year
range. (I don't have a copy of the document, so I am going on the Library
of Congress syntax which I think got modified...)

e.g. [-1400?~..-1200?~]/[-1400?~..-1200?~]

In HTML you could also use a time element to provide the named period "The
Trojan War".


It is a repeated question because the Web platform generally does not have
a very useful answer :(

cheers

Chaals

25.05.2018, 18:10, "Muri, Allison"
<allison.muri@usask.ca<mailto:allison.muri@usask.ca><mailto:allison.muri@usask.ca>>:
Hello,

I’ve been looking around for some way to markup historical events, for
example “the Trojan War.” It seems there were initiatives around 2012 or
so (http://historical-data.org<http://historical-data.org/>;
http://historical-data-schema.blogspot.ca/) that seem to have stalled. I’m
new to this group, so apologies if I’m asking something that is
repetitive.

All the best,
Allison
....................................................
Professor Allison Muri
Department of English

Arts 418
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
ph: 306.966.5503


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