You can find an exhaustive list of approaches adopted by data models to represent time points and time intervals in this work [1].
Best, Anisa 1. http://iswc2012.semanticweb.org/sites/default/files/76490481.pdf Il giorno 12/nov/2013, alle ore 16:05, Barry Norton <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > There's this: > http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-period/ > > For cultural heritage (where we need to be concerned about granularity of > definition and vagueness) there's the CRM ontology's Period class, as we at > the British Museum use as here: > http://collection.britishmuseum.org/resource/crm/E4_Period > > Barry > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Svensson, Lars <[email protected]> > Date: Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:47 PM > Subject: Which datatype to use for time intervals > To: "'[email protected]' ([email protected])" <[email protected]> > > > Is there a standard (recommended) datatype to use when I want to specify a > time interval (e. g. 2013-11-13--2013-11-14)? The XML Schema types [1] don't > include a time interval format (unless you want to encode it as starting time > + duration). There seems to be a way to encode it using ISO 8601, the > Wikipedia says that intervals can be expressed as 'Start and end, such as > "2007-03-01T13:00:00Z/2008-05-11T15:30:00Z"' [2], but I haven't found a > formally defined datatype to use with RDF data. > > [1] www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/ > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_intervals > > Thanks for any help, > > Lars >
