Re: OnAgainOffAgain relations - beyond celeb marriage: Org membership

Or: Grover Cleveland was the only person to have been elected to two non-consecutive terms as the President of the United States, first 1885-1889 and then 1893-1897. 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/grover-cleveland/#:~:text=The%20first%20Democrat%20elected%20after,1889%20and%201893%2D1897).

Ciao

Fabio



> On 9 Dec 2021, at 22:48, Cox, Simon (L&W, Clayton) <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> wrote:
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> Captain of the bowls club is another example.
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> (I was in one of these the other day admiring the wooden honour boards – the same names come up repeatedly but not necessary sequentially.)
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> From: Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com> 
> Sent: Thursday, 9 December, 2021 22:57
> To: public-rdf-star@w3.org
> Subject: OnAgainOffAgain relations - beyond celeb marriage: Org membership
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> The celebrity re-marriage example is interesting and real, but may look a bit artificial or cornercase. A similarly structured situation is much more common - membership of organizations.
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> For example one organization being a member of another.
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> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51698517 is the International Fact Checking Network (IFCN). It has a notion of membership grounded in review of members w.r.t. their official principles.
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> Verified signatories are e.g. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30325238 (Full Fact). There are some organizations such as Snopes (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2287154) who were once members (verified signatories) but who are not currently. 
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> Wikidata uses annotations on a https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P463 edge between IFCN and Snopes to give start/end times (
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> 15 April 2017, 5 June 2019). It also points to evidence/source document. 
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> As far as I know Snopes have only been members once, but if they were to rejoin it seems Wikidata could accomodate the task of representing this.
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> Until I learn a better name for it that isn't too grandiose, I am calling these "on again, off again" relationships, in honour of the celebrity marriage/divorce usecase.
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> p.s. another example, not quite notable enough for Wikidata to record:
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> I (https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q56641640) have twice been a member of https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7552326 (AISB - Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour).  But then I have multiple times lived in the U.K., or been in various restaurants; how do we scope RDF-Star's applicability? Which of these are reasonable places it could be used for time-scoped relationships?
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