Re: Historical events

After looking at it more closely I think I agree with Martin, unless
there's general agreement on the meaning of a type it probably shouldn't be
included.

"Significance" and "importance" are relative and only mean something if
there is agreement on several things: the group being compared, the
attribute being compared, and some qualifying percentile, e.g. top 5% of
mountains by height, top 10% of people by name recognition, top 1% of
websites by views.

Particularly about events though, maybe duration is an interesting
attribute, quite long events becoming named periods of history. With the
following types as a partial example, you could look for archaeological
events longer than a certain duration, and the results might possibly be
common named periods of archaeology.




















*Event    AnthropologicalEvent    ArchaeologicalEvent    ArmedConflict
  CosmologicalEvent    GeologicalEvent    PoliticalEvent    ReligiousEvent
  EventLongerThan1Year        EventLongerThan10Years
  EventLongerThan100Years                EventLongerThan1000Years
          EventLongerThan10000Years
  EventLongerThan100000Years
  EventLongerThan1000000Years
  EventLongerThan10000000Years
  EventLongerThan100000000Years
  EventLongerThan1000000000Years
  EventLongerThan10000000000Years*


(These duration categories cover the age of the universe.)

Could this be a solution to classifying and finding "historically
significant" events?

Anthony

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 4:22 PM <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> wrote:

> Does it have a name? If so, it is ‘significant’. That’s about it really.
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> *From:* Thad Guidry [mailto:thadguidry@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 19 June, 2018 03:42
> *To:* Muri, Allison <allison.muri@usask.ca>
> *Cc:* Richard Wallis <richard.wallis@dataliberate.com>; Anthony Moretti <
> anthony.moretti@gmail.com>; Cox, Simon (L&W, Clayton) <Simon.Cox@csiro.au>;
> schema.org Mailing List <public-schemaorg@w3.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Historical events
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> Allison,
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> Does it help to think this way ?
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> *A Significant* - some Thing of importance to someone or some group.
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> A Significant Other - some Person of importance to another Person.
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> Historical*Significant* - some Thing that has *historical* importance to
> someone or some group.
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> -Thad
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