See attached documents and message from the LegalML group. Lets talk about this at tomorrow’s meeting.
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From: Robin Cover [mailto:robin@oasis-open.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 7:19 PM
To: Toby Considine
Cc: Robin Cover
Subject: Fwd: [legalruleml] Time Instants or Time Points
Toby, the note below made me think of WS-Calendar, EMIX... and
your work on time intervals.
Two documents attached are about the OMG's work
- Robin
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From: Tara Athan <taraathan@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 6:01 PM
Subject: [legalruleml] Time Instants or Time Points
To: "legalruleml@lists.oasis-open.org" <legalruleml@lists.oasis-open.org>
There is a relatively recent date-time ontology published by OMG (http://www.nist.gov/customcf/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=911074) that addresses time scale granularity and also solves the problem of duration (is 1 month greater, equal or less than 30 days?)
While LegalRuleML is not supposed to be dependent on any particular ontology, this work does provide a useful conceptualization that allows certain intervals of time to be specified with a single datum. For example the date 2012-10-12 corresponds to a particular interval of time which can be specialized to a particular 24 hr interval when a timezone is added. This general concept of a point on a time scale with a particular granularity is called "time point". It is more general than a "point in time" or "time instant", but could include that concept if the time scale is continuous.
I proposed that we adopt this terminology, (but not the ontology) by referring to a collection of <ruleml:Time> elements as <lrml:TimePoints>
This also avoids the unfortunate plural "Times", which could be confused with multiplication or repitition, while retaining generality regarding the granularity, if any, of the time scale.
Example
<lrml:TimePoints>
<ruleml:Time key="t1"> <ruleml:Data xsi:type="xs:dateTime">2012-07-21T00:00:00Z</ruleml:Data> </ruleml:Time>
<ruleml:Time key="t2"> <ruleml:Data xsi:type="xs:date">2012-07-21</ruleml:Data> </ruleml:Time>
</lrml:TimePoints>
Tara
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