Re: Open intervals for temporalCoverage ?

As the documentation for temporalCoverage
<http://schema.org/temporalCoverage> states, it expects ISO 8601
time interval format <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_intervals>,
so the question lies there.

Your understanding I believe is correct, that the current version of the
standard ( *ISO 8601:2000* ) does not support open ended time intervals.

In Dublin Core, which bases its formats on ISO 8601,  open ended intervals
are supported <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/date-dccd-odrf/> but
explicitly state “This representation of an *open date range* is *not*
compatible
with the representation of a time-interval defined by ISO8601:2000.”

This has been the subject of a short
https://github.com/project-open-data/project-open-data.github.io/issues/415.
I support their conclusion that an open ended time period would be
currently best represented by the appropriate use [or non-use] of
schema:startDate and schema:endDate.

~Richard.



Richard Wallis
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On 14 September 2016 at 10:25, Thomas Francart <thomas.francart@sparna.fr>
wrote:

> Hello
>
> Is it allowed to have values for temporalCoverage that have an open end ?
> i.e. only a start date, but no end date, or only an end date and no start
> date ? My understanding of the ISO 8601 format is that this is not allowed,
> but I would like to confirm.
>
> We need to be able to express a temporal coverage as an open interval in
> the description of Legislation (https://github.com/schemaorg/
> schemaorg/issues/1156), and though we could reuse that property, but we
> can do it only if it allows open intervals (legislation currently
> applicable or in force would have a start date, but no end date).
>
> Thanks
> Thomas
>
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