When is something a version vs a new class?

[Kashyap, Vipul]

> If a class has a particular 'definition' (i.e., the criteria for
> membership of its instances) at a particular time and that definition
> 'changes' then we are talking about a different class
> altogether not a 'version' of the same class - the extension of both
> classes are no longer the same.  Unless the definition change is
> annotative only and doesn't really have any 'logical' consequences.  In
> which case a SKOS, time-stamped annotation for a human reader is
> sufficient and what we really have in mind.

[VK] This is a very interesting question and Chimezie has suggested some
criteria to address this.

Maybe we can take some ideas from way software is versioned, i.e., when is
something a major release vs a minor release? Just thinking aloud ...




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