Re: space and time

Frans Knibbe | Geodan <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl> wrote on 23-05-2014 
12:39:37:

> From: Frans Knibbe | Geodan <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>
> To: "public-locadd@w3.org Mailing list" <public-locadd@w3.org>
> Date: 23-05-2014 12:40
> Subject: space and time
> 
> Hello,
> When reading and talking about geographical Linked Data I sometimes 
> come across the term 'spatiotemporal data', meaning that data are 
> dependent on both space and time. I wonder if temporal aspects of 
> data should be considered when we are thinking about how to express 
> location data in the Semantic Web. 
> I understand that for many spatial data the temporal aspects are 
> really important, but I think temporal aspects could be equally 
> important to data about postage stamps or model trains or beer, or 
> whichever other topics one can have data about. In all cases, I 
> don't think it is necessary to think of special ways of expressing 
> the time dimension in the data. It seems to me that general 
> vocabularies and/or data types for expressing time should suffice. 
> In other words, I think that time and space are orthogonal subjects 
> and that vocabularies about space (location) can be kept separate 
> from vocabularies about time (For normal everyday data, that is. 
> Cosmological data are another matter).
> What do you think about this? 

+1

This way tools that understand the temporal structure of your data are 
able to tell if the data is valid for a given period or not without 
understanding the actual contents ( geo ) of the data. IMHO that is the 
strength of linked data / semantic web



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> Frans
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