A period of time having a beginning, an end and a duration. There is a difference between timespans as chronological values (where different skos:prefLabel can be used, e.g., "3200BC" is written "3200AC" is some languages, and all variants for "20th century") and historical timespans (e.g. “Bronze Age”, “Middle Age”) . edm:TimeSpan is not recommended for the latterSee Recommendations for providing temporal metadata for some more discussion on the topic.
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edm:TimeSpan
Property | Description | Value | Cardinality |
skos:prefLabel | The preferred form of the name of the timespan or period. Although the maximum number of occurrences is set at 1, it can be interpreted as 1 per language tag. At least one skos:prefLabel SHOULD be provided. Several prefLabels with languages tags are strongly recommended for language variants and This is a recommended property for this class. | literal | 0....1 |
skos:altLabel | Alternative forms of the name of the timespan or period. | literal | 0....n |
skos:note | Information relating to the timespan or period. | literal | 0....n |
dcterms:hasPart | Reference to a timespan which is part of the described timespan. | ref | 0....n |
dcterms:isPartOf | Reference to a timespan of which the described timespan is a part. | ref | 0....n |
edm:begin | The date the timespan started. Europeana recommends date conforming to Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) and ISO 8601 starting with the year and with hyphens (YYYY-MM-DD). Providing edm:begin in combination with edm:end is recommended for this class. Example:2: <edm:begin>27 BC</edm:begin> Note: '27 BC', while allowed, does not follow the above recommendation. For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal | 0....1 |
edm:end | The date the timespan finished. Europeana recommends date conforming to Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) and ISO 8601 starting with the year and with hyphens (YYYY‐MM-DD). Providing edm:end in combination with edm:begin is recommended for this class. <edm: |
end>1770</edm:end> For recommendations on medata quality see Tier A-C requirements , more specifically Metadata Tier B and Metadata Tier C | literal | 0....1 | |
edm:isNextInSequence | Can be used to represent a sequence of Time periods. Use this for objects that are part of a hierarchy or sequence to ensure correct display in the portal. | ref | 0....n |
skos:notation | The notation used to represent the timespan. This may or may not be words in natural language, e.g. | string (+rdf:datatype | 0…1 |
owl:sameAs | The URI of a timespan | ref | 0....n |