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A Lightweight Treatment of Inexact Dates

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This paper presents a lightweight approach to representing inexact dates on the semantic web, in that it imposes minimal ontological commitments on the ontology author and provides data that can be queried using standard approaches. The approach is presented in the context of a significant need to represent inexact dates but the heavyweight nature of existing proposals which can handle such information. Approaches to querying the represented information and an example user interface for creating such information are presented.

The research described here is supported by the award made by the RCUK Digital Economy programme to the dot.rural Digital Economy Hub; award reference: EP/G066051/1. Many thanks to Panos Alexopoulos for useful conversations.

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  1. Dot.rural Digital Economy Hub, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 5UA, UK

    Hai H. Nguyen, Stuart Taylor, Gemma Webster, Nophadol Jekjantuk, Chris Mellish & Jeff Z. Pan

  2. Hebridean Connections, Ravenspoint, Kershader, Isle of Lewis, HS2 9QA, UK

    Tristan ap Rheinallt

  3. School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, UK

    Kate Byrne

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  1. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Pathum Thani, Thailand

    Thepchai Supnithi

  2. Keio University Fac. of Science & Technology, Yokohama, Japan

    Takahira Yamaguchi

  3. Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

    Jeff Z. Pan

  4. Asian University, Chonburi, Thailand

    Vilas Wuwongse

  5. National Electronics Computer Tech Ctr, Sci Park, Pathumthani, Thailand

    Marut Buranarach

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Nguyen, H.H. et al. (2015). A Lightweight Treatment of Inexact Dates. In: Supnithi, T., Yamaguchi, T., Pan, J., Wuwongse, V., Buranarach, M. (eds) Semantic Technology. JIST 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8943. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15615-6_14

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