Hi, Not all of my corrections were picked up. Updated version (with some other minor changes) attached. I tried desperately to switch on 'track changes' (saving it as .docx in an attempt to do so), but I have no idea whether Word has actually done this. I did try!
I wonder if it is helpful to include the paragraph about overlapping 'end of begin' and 'begin of end': the concept is already hard enough to understand without throwing this into the mix. As regards the substance of the proposal, I would observe that there are other W3C date types, for example gDate and gYear [1]. I agree with the goal of expressing dates in a way which is amenable to machine processing, but the suggested approach appears to require users to record to a spurious precision, which will never be present in the source data. (If we're following W3C guidelines in full, a DateTime value should have an associated time zone, declared explicitly or implicitly assumed to be UTC. We don't actually give an example showing this.) I suggest, instead, that we say that when a W3C date, of whatever sort, is given as the value of P81a or P82a, then it should be interpreted as representing the /beginning /of the time period expressed by that date. When such a date is given as the value of P81b or P82b, it should be interpreted as representing the /end /of the time period expressed by that date. (Re-reading the text, I do wonder if this is what was actually meant. It depends what you mean by "the implementation". If so, I certainly misunderstood it the first time around.) I think the guidance should contain examples using both gYear and gDate, showing how to record e.g. "date of birth recorded as 4.12.1854" and "building not started before 1736; definitely happening 1745-1750; finished by 1754 when it was opened" as RDF. Best wishes, Richard [1] https://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema11-2/#gYear On 10/01/2018 19:38, Martin Doerr wrote: > > Here my latest edits, thanks to Richard's comments:-) > > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(2810)391625 | > Research Director | Fax:+30(2810)391638 | > | Email: [email protected] | > | > Center for Cultural Informatics | > Information Systems Laboratory | > Institute of Computer Science | > Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) | > | > N.Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, | > GR70013 Heraklion,Crete,Greece | > | > Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl | > -------------------------------------------------------------- -- *Richard Light*
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