Given a document date, age is an important feature in disambiguating identity since it loosely relates to date of birth. It's also used in many situations where a date of birth would create personal privacy issues.
Most properties change over time. The LOD community has a bias for facts that are static or "true right now" and we're still working out how to deal with historical changes. Rob On 2013-06-14, at 7:11 AM, Richard Light wrote: > Surely it's as pointless to record an age as a property, as it is to stop a > clock at the current time, and say "there, that's nailed it". Current age is > the distance between two points in time, one fixed and one not (unless you're > talking about "age of a person when some other event, such as their death, > occurred"). > > Richard > > -- > Richard Light
