[Data-modeling] Adding a date/time CVT to organization members

Jeff Thompson jeff at thefirst.org
Sat Feb 23 07:24:21 UTC 2008


Each time this comes up, it's my job to be the a**h*ole and ask the converse question:
Can you say what properties on any type you will *not* need to track changing values over time...

Jeff Prucher wrote:
> We have had a request to insert a CVT between the types "organization" and
> "organization member" in order to be able to track information about the
> periods over which members have belonged to organizations. The CVT will
> simply add start and end dates. (The properties that would be affected are
> /organization/organization/members and
> /organization/organization_member/member_of_these_organizations.) This is a
> very straightforward fix to do, but doing so will break any applications
> using these properties.  Is anybody using these properties, and if so, would
> this be a problem for you?  We'd probably make the change in the middle of
> March.
> 
> Jeff Prucher
> Type Librarian & Ontologist
> Metaweb Technologies, Inc.
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