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Table 2.

Principal ontologies for modeling time

Ontology	Description
OWL-Time ontology [22]	Provides vocabularies for instants and intervals, durations, datetime, and Allen’s Interval Temporal Logic [10].
SWRL temporal ontology [23]	Contains SWRL built-ins to reason about defined temporal information
DAML ontology of time [24]	Integrates First-order predicate calculus for topological temporal relations such as intervals, events, dates and times.
CHRONOS [25]	Stand-alone ontology and Allen’s Interval Temporal Logic framework that enable to infer implied relations, detect inconsistencies and ensure path consistency
PSI-Time Ontology [26]	Represents the concepts of relativist and absolutist durations, periodic time intervals, interval phases, open time, linear time, discrete time, anisotropic time, and the relations, point-to-point, point-to-interval and interval-to-interval.
RSCDF Ontology [27]	Temporal and contextual extension of RDF
Reusable Time ontology [28]	Represents time granularity by reusing a Physical-Quantities ontology that belongs to Ontolingua library [29].