Concept of „Time‟, Semantic Relationships and Cultural Frames

This paper deals with the impact of culture, especially ancient traditions and indigenous cultures, on conceptualization and semantic relationships. Gives examples of representation of the common „universal‟ concept of „Time,‟ viewed through select cultural perspectives. Provisions for representing „Time‟ in knowledge organization tools (KOTs) are examined. Some of the ideas and examples presented arose from our work for developing multi-lingual, multi-culture databases, the related KOTs, user-interfaces, and retrieval processes..