IntroductionA
Class has eternal validity. The concept of "Smartphone" existed since
the Big Bang, it only has been discovered recently. Yet, a Class is not
always relevant in a particular context. In order to find a way to describe the "life cycle" of a (Part 2) Class that Class has to be modeled in a particular way using the following rationale:
As an example the following template graph: Although
Class (1) is pointed at as the possessor type, in fact its
class-of-temporal-part Class (6) is the possessor type. But since
hardly any software has temporal parts it was practical to use (1)
as a kind of proxy. Only in case such a lowered template would be
mapped to its lifted counterpart the Class (6) will be made the
possessor type. Now it is implied. Semantically an instance of this
template means that any member of ClassOfIndividual (6) has that
Property with that value on that Scale, from EffectiveDate until DeprecationDate. Here is a diagram that explains the relation between ClassOfTemporalWholePart and TemporalWholePart as defined in ISO 15926-2: The design of PhysicalObject X is defined in a specialized ClassOfPhysicalObject CO_X (CO=ClassOf). From Jan. 6th 2018 till May 14th 2018 X is required to have a size of 2 inches, and from May 14th 2018 onwards a size of 3 inches. Since those class-of-temporal-part Classes are hidden inside the templates their valEffectiveDate and valDeprecationDate are depending on those dates of the templates. Note that ClassOfPhysicalObject has many specializations as can be seen here. TimelineIf these many different Classes are declared to be classOf(temporal)Part of one "Ur"-Class (see http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ur-), with an absolute minimum of criteria for membership, that Ur-Class can be used as a collector ('handle' or 'anchor') of all information that has been added, replaced and deleted since that Ur-Class became effective. (that UrClass is a kind of "ClassOfWholeLifeIndividual", which doesn't exist in Part 2).Each class template has an annotation property: meta:valEffectiveDate "2011-03-27T13:18:00Z"^^xsd:dateTime . To
the signature of each template about a Class its Ur-Class is added,
conceptually similar to the addition of the temporal whole to templates
for individuals. An exception to this rule is a case where a class-of-
temporal-part Class has been declared. This is then the anchor of all
its information. Starting with the thesis that the memberschip of a Part 2 Class is the sum of itself (Part 2: "A class may be a member of another class or itself.") and of all its "classOfPart" Classes, we can visualize this in the following diagram, where we show a timeline, and where:
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