Temporal Precision

• CURIE: gmeow:TemporalPrecision
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/TemporalPrecision
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/events
• Box roles: CBox role, TBox role (What is this?)

The granularity to which an event's time is known — day, month, year, decade, or circa. A value carried by gmeow:temporalPrecision; pairs with gmeow:earliestStart / gmeow:latestEnd to express a fuzzy date without abandoning DL-clean xsd:dateTime base triples.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:TemporalPrecision as a specialized kind of gufo:QualityValue. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the value vocabulary for the dating-granularity axis — the levels (day / month / year / decade / circa) that gmeow:temporalPrecision draws from to say how precisely an event's time is known.

Avoid when

• Avoid using it as the date itself (the bounds are gmeow:earliestStart / gmeow:latestEnd) and avoid the former free-text gmeow:eventDate string; precision is an explicit value, not prose, and is distinct from epistemic gmeow:confidence.

How to use

• Reference one gmeow:TemporalPrecision individual via gmeow:temporalPrecision alongside the gmeow:earliestStart + gmeow:latestEnd bounds that bracket the fuzzy date, keeping the base triples DL-clean xsd:dateTime.

Examples

• ex:battle gmeow:temporalPrecision gmeow:precisionDecade.