Re: ISSUE-15: Past, present and future

2015-08-05 16:06 GMT+02:00 Little, Chris <chris.little@metoffice.gov.uk>:

> Frans,
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> The problem is that the ‘static assertions’  'isAboutPastEvent',
> 'isAboutPresentEvent' and 'isAboutFutureEvent' are definitely not, unless
> you live in a ‘snapshot world’, they change at the rate of 1 day per day.
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Well, they could be made static when related to a time. For instance, in
2015 I could write a document about the Spanish Civil War and state that
the document is about a past event. I could also publish data about a
document that was written in 1938 about the Spanish Civil War and state
that it is about a current event. Similarly I could now publish a weather
prediction for tomorrow and include a statement saying that my data,
published today, is about a future event. This could count as 'coarse
labelling of data'. Annotation like that could be useful, it allows
distinction between predictions, hindsight and current observations.

I am not proposing a solution to the problem here, but by means of this
example I am trying to find out what the possible requirement should look
like. That is what ISSUE-15 is about: it is not clear what is meant.


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> I will rummage around the existing requirement to see if my scenarios are
> covered or not.
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Thank you, that would be helpful. And if they are, do you think there won't
be a need for an extra requirement?

Regards,
Frans


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> Chris
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> *From:* Frans Knibbe [mailto:frans.knibbe@geodan.nl]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 05, 2015 1:54 PM
> *To:* Little, Chris
> *Cc:* SDW WG Public List
> *Subject:* Re: ISSUE-15: Past, present and future
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> Thanks for explaining Chris.
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> It seems to me that current practices accomodate knowing about relative
> past, present and future if some amount of processing is allowed, like in a
> SPARQL query. But this is more about making static assertions? So perhaps
> this calls for properties like 'isAboutPastEvent', 'isAboutPresentEvent'
> and 'isAboutFutureEvent'?
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> Do you there is a reason to create an additional requirement or to change
> an existing requirement? If so, could you venture a proposal?
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> Regards,
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> Frans
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> 2015-08-05 14:23 GMT+02:00 Little, Chris <chris.little@metoffice.gov.uk>:
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> Hi Frans,
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> I think this requirement, as identified in the tracker comments, is about
> coarse labelling of data.
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> There is a subtlety that has to be captured: if an historian is annotating
> a document that was written after the Spanish civil war (both ‘Past’) but
> before another document (‘Past’), that would have been in the ‘Future’ at
> the time.
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> The same issue arises in a detailed way with weather forecasts – when
> analysing past weather forecasts, we label things that were future in the
> past. This ability to talk about such things is certainly reflected in lots
> of languages like English and French.
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> So I think it is part of logical reasoning about events and having
> appropriate vocabularies and ontologies.
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> I do not think that there is a requirement here for detailed temporal CRS
> and calendar stuff.
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> HTH, Chris
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> *From:* Frans Knibbe [mailto:frans.knibbe@geodan.nl]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 04, 2015 3:14 PM
> *To:* SDW WG Public List
> *Subject:* ISSUE-15: Past, present and future
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> Hello,
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> Like ISSUE-14, ISSUE-15 <http://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/track/issues/15>
> did not have its dedicated e-mail thread yet. This message is intended to
> start that thread and the discussion on how to resolve ISSUE-15.
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> I am not sure what to make of this prospect requirement...Could anyone try
> to explain what could be meant and whether we should consider adding a new
> requirement or amending an existing requirement?
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> Thanks,
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> Frans
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