Re: Circa. dates

I agree with the authors
of this paper where SI is compared and Palo and Geo contexts are taken into
account.  The need for
separate
date structures for the Sciences is clearly stated.
http://www.agiweb.org/nacsn/40890_articles_article_file_1641.pdf

Thad
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On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:19 AM, <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> wrote:

> However, the geological timescale is hierarchical.
> For the named periods there is an ordering within each 'rank', but the
> ranks are nested. [1] [2]
> So a single sort order doesn't work for named periods if they are of
> different ranks.
> And at the finest scales, the scale is defined on a per region or locality
> basis.
>
> Only the boundaries form a single sequence, and the periods are defined in
> terms of the boundaries that define their beginning and end.
> So it is actually more like a constrained topology.
>
> [1] http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/GES00022.1
> [2] http://stratigraphy.org/index.php/ics-chart-timescale
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Caroline [mailto:dave.thearchivist@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, 2 March 2015 6:48 PM
> To: Cox, Simon (L&W, Highett)
> Cc: Richard.Wallis@oclc.org; public-vocabs@w3c.org
> Subject: Re: Circa. dates
>
> The mixing of fuzzy and textual and numeric dates makes me think of a
> similar problem in sorting text which is solved by collation(sorting
> rule) in a database.
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/341273/what-does-character-set-and-collation-mean-exactly
>
> I think dates classified this way would become easy to search, sort and
> intermingle expressions of dates
>
> Dave Caroline
>
> On 01/03/2015, Simon.Cox@csiro.au <Simon.Cox@csiro.au> wrote:
> > Also note that as soon as you get into 'named' time periods, then you
> > have to tangle with non-Gregorian calendars.
> > ISO 8601 only deals with Gregorian dates. XML Schema (and,
> > transitively,
> > OWL-Time) inherit this limitation.
> >
> > This doesn't work for many situations, not only geologic time and
> > pre-historic time, but also non-Gregorian calendars used currently in
> > some communities (Hebrew, Arabic, Baha'i calendars).
> >
> > And then there are coordinate systems, like Unix time and Loran-C,
> > which express time with a number on a line with a direction and origin.
> >
> > See
> > http://semantic-web-journal.net/content/time-ontology-extended-non-gre
> > gorian-calendar-applications-0 for a longer discussion, along with
> > proposed solutions for OWL applications.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dave Caroline [mailto:dave.thearchivist@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Sunday, 1 March 2015 5:23 AM
> > To: Wallis,Richard
> > Cc: public-vocabs@w3c.org
> > Subject: Re: Circa. dates
> >
> > It gets worse, dates have bugged me for a long time a few examples one
> > sees circa 300BC Jurassic period Caroline period
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_era
> > 16th century
> >
> > Database designers seem to have dodged the issue
> >
> > Dave Caroline (name not related to the period I think)
> >
> >
> > On 28/02/2015, Wallis,Richard <Richard.Wallis@oclc.org> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> With colleagues I have been looking at how we might handle historical
> >> approximate dates in Schema.org<http://Schema.org>.  The initial
> >> requirement being to be able to describe an old book or manuscript
> >> published say in approximately 1765.  A common need in the
> >> bibliographic world, with the normal string based solution being
> >> "circa. 1765", or "c. 1765" - Wikipedia providing some
> >> examples<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circa>.
> >>
> >> The knee-jerk reaction was to suggest some sort of
> >> approximateDateCreated property for CreativeWork which would not only
> >> help us bibliographic folks but also those in museums and galleries
> >> with similar date approximation needs.
> >>
> >> Broadening the analysis it became clear that this need could be
> >> applicable in most any case where you would expect a
> >> Date<http://schema.org/Date> in the range of a property.  birthDate,
> >> deathDate, dateCreated, datePublished, foundingDate, all being all
> >> potential candidates for Circa style dates.
> >> Rolling things into the future you could imagine other examples such
> >> as wanting to describe the last serviced date of a vehicle being
> >> circa 2013.
> >>
> >> So how to solve this in a simple, yet generic, way?
> >>
> >> We could take advantage of the default "if you haven't got a
> >> specified type for a property, a Text is acceptable" pattern in
> >> Schema, and just put in a text string with a defined format: "c.1765".
> >>
> >> Perhaps a more appropriate solution would be to define a new data
> >> type, to be added to the range of suitable properties.
> >>
> >> My pragmatic (KISS and don't break stuff) view of this leads me to
> >> suggest a new data type named 'circaData', or maybe 'approximateDate'
> >> as a subType of Date.  With descriptive information in the Type
> >> definition explaining why/how you would use it in the use cases I
> >> describe above.
> >>
> >> This approach would add this important functionality, for those
> >> describing old stuff, without the need for major upheaval across the
> >> vocabulary, and would at least default to a date for those that do
> >> not care or look for such approximation aspect of dates.
> >>
> >> ~Richard
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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