ISSUE-184: Make Instant subclass of Interval
Make Instant subclass of Interval
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- Time ontology in OWL
- Raised by:
- Simon Cox
- Opened on:
- 2017-04-21
- Description:
- Suggestion recvied from Maria Bermudez-Edo 2017-04-13
My thoughts: If the idea is that time intervals are more general cases than time instants, why not explicitly make instants a subclass of time intervals? (or even forget about instants) and keep the ontology simpler. In that case “proper interval” will be redundant. I suppose is for compatibility reasons with previous versions, but I am of the opinion that if the ontology is simpler it has more options to be adopted and extendedly used.
- Related Actions Items:
- No related actions
- Related emails:
- Response to ISSUE-182 and ISSUE-184 (from Simon.Cox@csiro.au on 2017-04-21)
- Interval vs Instant - model question from Maria Bermudez-Edo (from Simon.Cox@csiro.au on 2017-04-21)
Related notes:
Response in mail from Chris Little, 2017-04-13:
Abandoning all instants for just intervals has been considered, and papers published about this approach. It was considered to break too much backward compatibility with the 2006 version, and too many people expect instants as a fundamental concept.
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