How to structure opening hours of a place? May-be there's even an ontology for it?

Does anyone know any ontology which specifies opening hours of places? For example, I have a museum, which has 2 seasons. For low season (season start and end is specified), it is opened 10.00 - 1开发者_开发问答8.00 on weekdays and 10-16 on saturday (on sunday it's closed), for high season it's opened 10-20 on weekdays and 10-18 on weekend.

If there is no ontology, may-be people have experience, how best to structure information like that?

I'm describing information in RDF. But whatever comments are welcome (even if you have relational database which holds given data).

Thanks

You might find the W3C's RDF Calendar note useful. I've not tried it myself, but I can say that you probably want to represent your data in iCalendar format if you can.

there is also schema.org - http://schema.org/Museum can have opening hours - its pretty poor modelling, but well supported by search engines if that was an objective

I have also seen it argued (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2011Dec/0062.html), that recurrent events should be modelled as individually rather than using what are essentially rule based expressions (eg. ical ncal etc.). so there is an opening duration for monday 09/07/2012 and another one for tuesday 10/07/12 - I don't agree with it, but its worth thinking about

http://openinghours.io defines an ontology to maintain opening hours. Using that ontology you can link to existing files (e.g. iCal) or include RDF structures (schema.org or RDFcal) as layers to form the right opening hours, indicating whether the calendar layer is describing are closing hours or opening hours.

There is also ncal - http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/04/02/ncal/ which is a revised version of W3C's ical

There is a large library of free data models here.

Perhaps parts of one of these schemas will have what you need.