- From: Andrea Perego <andrea.perego@jrc.ec.europa.eu>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 02:16:35 +0200
- To: Frans Knibbe | Geodan <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>
- Cc: Karl Grossner <karlg@stanford.edu>, "public-locadd@w3.org Mailing list" <public-locadd@w3.org>
Hi, Frans. > I think this is the core of the matter: Are space and time truly dependent > on each other? Or do they just happen to occur together very often? If the > latter is the case, I think it is better to keep the semantics separate. It > is one of the things I like about the semantic web: vocabularies are modules > that can be mixed and matched at will. And if a vocabulary is designed > well it will be as simple as possible and not try to model anything outside > its scope. About your main question, I think that whether and how much space and time are dependent on each other depends on the specific use case. IMHO, what we need is something like a "core" time ontology. Specific extensions can then be defined to address the specific requirements of the different use cases. In this scenario, the key point is: what are the cross-disciplinary requirements to be addressed by a core time ontology? I would be interested to see if this option will be considered in future work on the W3C Time Ontology. But for sure we can contribute the issues we identified, as Simon pointed out earlier in this thread. Cheers, Andrea
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