Re: Historical events

Hi Alison,
perhaps the closest to what you want is the
recent Time Ontology proposed in the context of a W3C/OGC
spatial data on the web working group. Please see
https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/

Best
Manolis



> Thank you. I know about https://schema.org/Date, which I use for actual
> dates. I was wondering specifically about events, and tried marking
> historical events as events but that generated errors in the validator
> because I didn’t have a time and location marked up. Event seems intended
> for commercial events held in venues that one can buy tickets for. It
> doesn’t seem to really fit for something that happened sometime in the
> late Bronze Age—or  the Plague in London 1665-1666. It would be nice to be
> able to specify that information because then I could select all
> historical events in any particular text.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 29, 2018, at 5:09 AM, chaals is Charles McCathie Nevile
> <chaals@yandex.ru<mailto:chaals@yandex.ru>> wrote:
>
> You can use https://schema.org/Date for various properties that are dates,
> and currently it says it is "an ISO 8601 date". Which, given the proposed
> update to that standard, **might** mean you can use an uncertain year
> range. (I don't have a copy of the document, so I am going on the Library
> of Congress syntax which I think got modified...)
>
> e.g. [-1400?~..-1200?~]/[-1400?~..-1200?~]
>
> In HTML you could also use a time element to provide the named period "The
> Trojan War".
>
>
> It is a repeated question because the Web platform generally does not have
> a very useful answer :(
>
> cheers
>
> Chaals
>
> 25.05.2018, 18:10, "Muri, Allison"
> <allison.muri@usask.ca<mailto:allison.muri@usask.ca>>:
> Hello,
>
> I’ve been looking around for some way to markup historical events, for
> example “the Trojan War.” It seems there were initiatives around 2012 or
> so (http://historical-data.org<http://historical-data.org/>;
> http://historical-data-schema.blogspot.ca/) that seem to have stalled. I’m
> new to this group, so apologies if I’m asking something that is
> repetitive.
>
> All the best,
> Allison
> ....................................................
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> Department of English
>
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