Raphaël Troncy
Lynda Hardman
Ryan Shaw
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Copyright © 2010 Ryan Shaw
LODE: An ontology for Linking Open Descriptions of Events
lode
http://linkedevents.org/ontology/
This document describes an ontology for publishing descriptions of
historical events as Linked Data, and for mapping between other
event-related vocabularies and ontologies.
LODE: An ontology for Linking Open Descriptions of Events
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An event consists of some temporal and spatial boundaries subjectively
imposed on the flux of reality or imagination, that we wish to treat
as an entity for the purposes of making statements about it. In
particular, we may wish to make statements that relate people, places,
or things to an event.
Note that, unlike some defintions of "event," this definition does not
specify that an event involves a change of state, nor does it attempt
to distinguish events from processes or states.
Event
"Something that happened," as might be reported in a news article or
explained by a historian.
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This property relates an event to some meaningful place, which may
have a name (e.g. "Paris") or may be defined relative to some other
entity or entities (e.g. "the unincorporated area between Carson and
Harbor Gateway"). An event may be related to more than one such
place.
at place
a named or relatively specified place that is where
an event happened.
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Equivalent definitions from other ontologies:
* C4DM Event ontology: "Relates an event to a time object, classifying
a time region (either instantaneous or having an extent)."
This property relates an event to some subjectively imposed temporal
boundaries, i.e. a span of time. An event can be related to only one
such span of time.
at time
an abstract instant or interval of
time that is when an event happened.
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This property relates a span of time that cannot be precisely located
in a chronological series to another span of time that can be
precisely located, thus asserting that the latter is an approximation
of the former.
An temporal relation expressing nearness in time.
circa
an interval of time that can be
precisely described using calendar dates and clock times.
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This property relates any thing (typically a media object) to an event which it
illustrates, documents or comments upon.
illustrate
an event illustrated by some thing (typically a media object)
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Note that a statement that relates an event to a region of space using
this property only asserts that an event occurred somewhere within
the region and does not assert that it occurred everywhere within the
region.
This property relates an event to some subjectively imposed spatial
boundaries, i.e. a region of space. An event can be related to only
one such region of space.
in space
an abstract region of space (e.g. a
geospatial point or region) that is where an event happened.
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This property relates an event to any physical, social, or mental
object or substance. It does not imply any causal relationship or
influence or any other kind of explanatory relationship such as
creation, destruction, etc.
involved
a (physical, social, or mental) object involved in
an event.
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This property relates an event to anything with agency, such as a
(legal or natural) person, a group, an organization, a computational
agent, etc. It does not imply any causal relationship, influence,
intentionality, etc.
involved agent
an agent involved in an event.
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