[topicmapmail] Temporality in Topic Maps

[Alexander Johannesen]

Hi Graham,

> I would also consider doing the following:
>
> topic "some person"
> topic "some organisation"
> topic "some event" : "Person Employment Event"
>         - occurrence "start date/time"
>         - occurrence "end date/time"

So basically using occurrences as binary associations for events.
Yeah, the pragmatist in me thinks this looks fine. Doesn't this scrape
against the core of the TM model, though? :) (Not to say that
occurrence itself isn't a short-hand for a binary association) I wish
there was some better semantic notion for these things. Has there been
any talk about binary assocations being embedable in a topic? (which
again I guess goes against the TM ideal)


Alex
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