edm:TimeSpan
- Adina Ciocoiu
- Antoine Isaac
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”) . See Recommendations for providing temporal metadata for some more discussion on the topic.
The recommended properties are marked in dark red.
The optional properties are left in black.
Please provide the properties in the record in the same order given in this document, the metadata validation performed by Europeana requires this order.
- 1 edm:TimeSpan
- 1.1 skos:prefLabel
- 1.2 skos:altLabel
- 1.3 skos:note
- 1.4 dcterms:hasPart
- 1.5 dcterms:isPartOf
- 1.6 edm:begin
- 1.7 edm:end
- 1.8 edm:isNextInSequence
- 1.9 skos:notation
- 1.10 owl:sameAs
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 |