Create Web Annotations for dates?

[SusanBrown]

We are creating Web Annotations for named entities. Should we also do so for references to dates that occur alongside such entities but are not the dates of events?

Probably, and if so we could just use date literals.

[SusanBrown]

What do you think @joelacummings and @DeborahStacey ? See example below where we will would be extracting the 1610 date that wouldn't otherwise be called out in the linked data:

He was admitted while very young to <ORGNAME STANDARD=Oxford University > Oxford University </ORGNAME> (where he did not, however, take his degree) and later to <ORGNAME STANDARD=Lincoln's Inn > Lincoln's Inn </ORGNAME> . He was a <SUBJECT > law </SUBJECT> student when he wrote most of his love-poetry. In <DATE VALUE=1610-04- > April 1610 </DATE> Oxford gave him an <DEGREE > honorary MA </DEGREE> in recognition of his (prose) writings. Once ordained he was given an <DEGREE > honorary Doctorate of Divinity </DEGREE> by <ORGNAME STANDARD=Cambridge University > Cambridge University </ORGNAME>

[joelacummings]

Do you have an predicate in mind, I think including this information is not a bad idea however I don't seen anything in OA that would seem to fit. They include dcterms:issued, dcterms:created, dcterms:updated but they seem to be used as metadata for the annotation itself. We need something more specific. Maybe cwrc:referencesDate or ```cwrc:containsDate? or something like that implies the date is for the content annotated and for the annotation itself.

[alliyya]

The time ontology has the predicate hasTime which may fit our use case. But it could be too generic for our uses. hasTime is a completely generic predicate for associating a temporal entity with anything. Defn': supports the association of a temporal entity (instant or interval) to any thing.

[JasmineDW]

@SusanBrown @alliyya Does moving to an Event-centric model with CIDOC resolve this issue?