Re: PROV-ISSUE-58 (time-iso8601): is reference to iso8601 appropriate? [Conceptual Model]

Hi Graham,
This issue was closed, pending review.
Are you satisfied with the changes? Can we
close it? Alternatively, you can reopen it,
or create a more specific issue.
Thanks,
Luc

PS See note on this issue's page



On 29/07/11 10:03, Provenance Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
> PROV-ISSUE-58 (time-iso8601): is reference to iso8601 appropriate? [Conceptual Model]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/prov/track/issues/58
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> Raised by: Graham Klyne
> On product: Conceptual Model
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> Time is defined according to [ISO8601].
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> I don't think it is appropriate of an open standard to be normatively
> dependent on a standard that is available only on payment of a charge
> for access.  In this case, we could make reference to the XML scheme
> datatypes, which would also require us to think about my next point...
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> As far as I'm aware, ISO 8601 covers both points in time and time
> intervals.  As such a bare reference to ISO 86012 is not really an
> adequate definition: which do we want?  I suspect
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime.
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Received on Monday, 22 August 2011 21:09:08 UTC