The resource description framework (RDF) is a metadata model and language
recommended by the W3C. This paper presents a framework to incorporate temporal …

Abstract The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a metadata model and language
recommended by the W3C. This paper presents a framework to incorporate temporal …

After more than two decades of its use, XML is not only a standard format for exchanging
data between different (Web) applications but also a model for a family of some emerging or …

In this paper we address the problem of modeling and implementing temporal data in XML.
We propose a data model for tracking historical information in an XML document and for …

The effective and efficient use of information systems in health care organizations and
services are a vital element of the quality of life world wide. The modeling of time has …

While reasoners are year after year scaling up in the classical, time invariant domain of
ontological knowledge, reasoning upon rapidly changing information has been neglected or …

The old problem of managing the history of database information is now made more urgent
and complex by fast spreading web information systems, such as Wikipedia. Our PRIMA …

Methods of designing a data warehouse (DW) usually assume that its structure is static. In
practice, however, a DW structure changes among others as the result of the evolution of …

Time management is a key feature needed in any query language for web and
semistructured data. However, only recently this has been addressed by the Semantic Web …

By storing the successive versions of a document in an incremental fashion, XML
repositories and data warehouses achieve:(i) the efficient preservation of critical information …