2. A Taxonomy of Bi-Temporal Data Management Methods
Contents
Taxonomies28 Partitioned Semantic Trees
28 A Taxonomy of Methods for Managing Temporal Data34 The Root Node of the Taxonomy
35 Queryable Temporal Data: Events and States
37 State Temporal Data: Uni-Temporal and Bi-Temporal Data
41 In
Chapter 1, we presented an historical account of various ways that temporal data has been managed with computers. In this chapter, we will develop a
taxonomy, and situate those methods described in
Chapter 1, as well as several variations on them, in this taxonomy.
A taxonomy is a special kind of hierarchy. It is a hierarchy which is a partitioning of the instances of its highest-level node into different ...