Re: PROV-ISSUE-104 (time-class): How to relate start/end time to PE, use, generation, etc [Formal Model]

On Mar 9, 2012, at 4:43 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 04:29, Timothy Lebo <lebot@rpi.edu> wrote:
>> I left TimeInstant and prov:inXSDDateTime around so that some _may_ use it if they wish, but it is not a principal (simple) modeling construct.
> 
>> But I don't think this prevents Stian from just associating the temporal entities directly (activities, usages, etc). No?
> 
> Now that they are all InstantaneousEvent, then no, that should still
> be kind-of fine, as I can do:
> 
>  :activity1 a prov:Activity ;
>      prov:qualifiedStart :activity1Start ;
>      prov:qualifiedEnd :activity1End .
> 
>  :entity1 prov:qualifiedGeneration :entity1Gen .
> 
>  :activity1Gen ex:after :activity1Start .
>  :activity1End ex:after :activity1Gen .
> 
> and in fact, if I as an asserter still like OWL Time, I can make
> :activity1Gen etc. instances of time:Instant and use time:after
> instead of my own ex:after - even make a property ex:started as
> subproperty of both prov:qualifiedStart and time:hasBeginning (and
> equivalent for prov:atTime/time:inXSDDateTime)  and talk about
> :activity1  as an time:Interval.
> 

I added this as https://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/309

on the best practices doc.

-Tim