Temporal entities

[luukvdmeer]

Continuation of a discussion started in the old inference engine repo: how can we best model "temporal entities", i.e. entities that subset the time dimension, like "harvest season" and "sowing season" or "wet season" and "dry season".

[luukvdmeer]

Latest posts from previous discussion.

@whisperingpixel:

The problem with "entity/event" is that they want to load data, which does not make sense or is not required in a definition of "spring". Having a different block can solve this issue because the inference engine can be designed to add another rule/switch, in addition to the idea that something like "spring" or "harvest season" is conceptually not an "entity" or an "event". (Please correct, if this summary was not sufficient or something is missing).

Other options could be:

Dimension
Domain (e.g., consider domains in database systems, which are similar (but not equal)
...

@luukvdmeer:

FYI: semantique is updated such that the translator function of an ontology is aware of the current "self" object in a processing chain at the moment the translator is called. Hence, a different block is not needed anymore from the technical perspective. Does of course not take away the naming issue.