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First cut at structuring resources to input into the Abstract spec

1. Minutes of the OGC Temporal Domain Working Group

2. Existing standards

3. Restrictive profiles of existing standards

4. Other useful Documents

   draft OGC Temporal Best Practice from years ago

   Calendrical Calculations, 3rd Edition

   Ladybird Book: Time. (Children's book, but excellent 10 minute introduction.)

5. Stakeholders in temporal infrastructure

   ISO

   OGC Naming Authority

   BIPM

   IERS

6. Examples of good and bad practice

7. Examples or catalogue of temporal systems

8. Draft text

Quote from St Augustine.

Temporal Regimes

Event Regime

Clock Regime

Coordinate Regime

Calendara Regime

Time Scales and Calendars

All defined timescales and calendars, as they are based on physical devices, have a temporal scope, That is, a time inerval for which they are valid. Outside of the this interval, people may still choose to use that temporal reference system, but with indeterminate accuracy and precision, and no method of determining them.

Calendar Regime