Hi friends, In my legacy data, beside precise geographical Places (polygons, lines, points), of course I have named territories.
Well, all Places are time-dependent: they are all post Big-Bang :-) But in order to simplify my life, I am tempted to model as E53_Place the bona fide spatial objects: • the "history-independent" places (e.g. Island of Crete, North America) • the settlements (yes, a brutal simplification as bona fide objects) and as E92_SpaceTime_Volume the fiat spatial objects: • the territories of (extended) administrative units (counties..., countries, empires). A few territories are stable in space AND time, e.g. Czechoslovakia, almost (1918-1993, with the WW2 caesura), but others... Think of the Habsburg Empire. Of course, there are "special" cases of almost identity, as "Malta" (the island) and the territory of "the Republic of Malta" (1964-), but I could live with them :-) What do you think ? could that be a reasonable enough decision ? Dan _____________________________________________________________ Dan Matei, bibliograf Institutul Național al Patrimoniului, Secția Biblioteci Digitale Piața Presei Libere nr. 1, 013701 București tel. 0725 253 222, 021 317 90 72, fax: 021 317 90 64 [email protected]; [email protected]
