Jeni's Musings

Jeni,

Isn’t it possible to make the splits and the merges part of your model/vocabulary?

:Merge_10
  a       :Merge ;
  rdfs:label "Merge_10"^^xsd:string ;
  :source   :Bron_9 ;
  :after    :NewSchool ;
  :onDate   "2007-01-01"^^xsd:date ;
  :before   :Nieuwkoop , :Liemeer , :Ter_Aar .

The entities as a result of a merge or split event get new identifiers.

For namechanges you can use something along these lines, changing name or label from dataproperty to objectproperty, where the name has his own PIT properties.

skosxl:prefLabel
  [ a       skosxl:Label ;
    :cbsnr  "1891" ;
    :startDate "2009-01-01"^^xsd:date ;
    skosxl:literalForm "Dantumadiel"^^xsd:string
  ] ;
skosxl:prefLabel
  [ a       skosxl:Label ;
    :endDate "2008-12-31"^^xsd:date ;
    :startDate "2000-01-01"^^xsd:date ;
    skosxl:literalForm "Dantumadeel"^^xsd:string
  ] .