[Data-modeling] Historical periods

[Kirrily Robert]

----- "Danny Hillis" <danny at appliedminds.com> wrote:
> The Historical Currency discussion makes me realize that we haven't  
> made use of named time periods in the general way that way have have 
> 
> Location. Fox example, shouldn't types like Military Conflict inherit 
> 
> from Historic Period? Maybe the Historic Period is too specific, and 
> 
> it should inherit from some more general concept of named time
> interval.

Yes, that would be "event".  There has been a long thread about that very topic recently on this list.  See eg. http://freebase.markmail.org/search/?q=+list%3Adata-modeling%20events

K.

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Kirrily Robert
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