Time ordering of activities / pattern similar to rico:rankInSequence to order activities linked with rico:precedesInTime / rico:followsInTime / or use Proxies for Activities

[tfrancart]

The rico:rankInSequence property is to be used on rico:Proxy or rico:RecordResource together with rico:precedesOrPreceded.

There is actually a similar need to conveniently order activities that are linked with rico:precedesInTime / rico:followsInTime.

Would it be possible to introduce a rico:rankInTime property ? (maybe a more elegant name can be found).
The use-case is the following : we describe legal proceedings, each proceeding being decomposed (with rico:hasOrHadSubevent) into 3 investigations. Investigations are activities and linked together with rico:precedesInTime / rico:followsInTime. We need the ability to conveniently query and retrieve the first, second or third investigation.

I known it feels awkward to express an order on activities in the ontological sense; an alternative could be to allow for the class rico:Proxy to be a proxy of an Activity, and express the order on the proxy.

I am thinking as an alternative to express an additionnal activity type on each of the investigation to easily select them.
But I think the question of ordering activities can still be relevant.

[florenceclavaud]

Hi @tfrancart, just a question: for this project, do you need rico:Proxy and its properties for describing multiple temporal sequences that would involve events or activities just now, or would you just need a rico:rankInTemporalSequence property?

In fact we could consider extending the domain and range of many properties related to rico:Proxy or rico:RecordResource only, and added in RiC-O 1.1. Instantiations in particular, and also "contextual" entities of archival resources, e.g. Event or Activity as you said, and also maybe (at least) Agent, or Rule, might theoretically sometimes need to be ordered in some sequence. Agents may be related to each other by rico:precedesInTime, etc.

[tfrancart]

for this project, do you need rico:Proxy and its properties for describing multiple temporal sequences that would involve events or activities just now, or would you just need a rico:rankInTemporalSequence property?

Just a rico:rankInTemporalSequence.

Right now we will use rico:hasActivityType, so this question is not blocking for us.