Re: ISSUE 14: temporal reasoning and relations

Frans,
This requirement is asking for temporal relations which, as you suggest, are already in OWL-time (Allen's). I think that it is perfectly reasonable to  leave that in as a requirement for our work even so. There were several relevant use cases.

The "xsd formats" part of the requirement came specifically from use case 
http://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Working_Use_Cases#Publishing_Cultural_Heritage_Data_.28Best_Practice.2C_Time.2C_Coverage.29
submitted by Lars, where he said that the xsd time formats available in OWL are insufficient.  I suspect, however, that OWL-time addresses, or should address, that need, so perhaps the "( xsd formats)" part of the requirement can just be  dropped.  Almost certainly I was the one who wrote it, rather cryptically.

Having said that, there is indeed a (fresh and separate) requirement that I think should replace that cryptic comment. OWL was updated in 2012 to adopt the updated 2012 xsd datatypes, but owl-time remains pre-2012. Xsd:datetimeStamp, at least, should be handled in OWL-time ( as OWL does).  A requirement like "conform to the 2012 update of OWL datatypes" would do, and could apply to both owl-time and also ssn.

On the fuzzy time requirement, I wonder whether the intervals that can be represented in owl-time are good enough? Just wondering -- this is not a requirements question.

@Lars, will you be able to come to the meeting this week?

Kerry


> On 7 Aug 2015, at 11:33 pm, Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl> wrote:
> 
> Hello Karl,
> 
> Should the OWL time ontology make it possible to work with vague or fuzzy time, which already is a requirement, do you think there is a need for an additional requirement? 
> 
> I am fully convinced that time is important and that in many cases time can not be encoded in ISO 8601. But the main issue in this discussion is getting the requirement (if there is one) straight. At least the editors of the UCR document are not clear on what is meant by the proposed requirement. Do you see a clear requirement and could you explain it? Perhaps there is something useful in Topotime that is not in OWL Time and is not coveredr by the requirements currently in the UCR document? 
> 
> Regards,
> Frans
> 
> 2015-08-04 17:56 GMT+02:00 Karl Grossner <karlg@stanford.edu>:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> 
>> Don't know whether or how this may be useful in the business of SDW; I've been largely absent from the group due to timing of meetings:
>> 
>> Use Case 4.17 states, "There is no framework available to describe fuzzy temporal information." There are, however two nascent efforts that will accommodate 'fuzziness' in varying degree: the Periods, Organized project [1] and Topotime [2]. In both cases, timespans can be described not only by pairs of instants, but also by pairs of intervals. This pattern has appeared elsewhere (e.g. in the SIMILE Timeline software). Additionally, Topotime includes operators like before (<), after (>), and about (~), and differentiates 'some time/duration within' and 'throughout.' It is currently in active (re-)development as a GeoJSON extension [3].
>> 
>> 
>> All phenomena occurring at a location have temporal attributes of co-equal importance (which isn't to say we always know them, or care, or that people aren't prone to using spatial snapshots). But general models of natural phenomena should permit representing their most important characteristics, including the 'where' and 'when' of them. What motivates Topotime is that in historical data we are very frequently representing entities with shapes and positions that change over time, and for which spatial-temporal extents are uncertain in various ways.
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>> 
>> Happy to discuss further - in or out of this thread :^)
>> 
>> 
>> Karl
>> 
>> [1] http://perio.do 
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>> [2] http://dh.stanford.edu/topotime 
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>> [3] https://github.com/kgeographer/topotime
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>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Karl Grossner, PhD
>> Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research
>> Stanford University Libraries
>> http://kgeographer.org
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>> From: Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 6:33 AM
>> To: SDW WG Public List
>> Subject: ISSUE 14: temporal reasoning and relations
>>  
>> Hello,
>> 
>> The oldest remaining issue with the UCR document is ISSUE-14: Not clear Time req. - temporal reasoning and relations (xsd formats). Until now the issue had no related e-mail thread. This message changes that. I hope we can all think about this issue and work towards resolving it - hopefully in next week's meeting.
>> 
>> My personal understanding is that this issue could be intended to lead to addition of a new requirement that is the temporal equivalent of the spatial operators requirement. Especially when considering inexact dates and times I think it would be good to have operators like 'before', 'after', 'during' at one's disposal. But when looking at the Time Ontology I see such concepts are already there. I understand them to be only usable with exact dates and times, but there already is a requirement for temporal vagueness. Could this mean there is no reason to add another requirement?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Frans
>> 
>> 
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