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<!DOCTYPE ObjectProperty SYSTEM "../../DTD">
<ObjectProperty transitive="yes">
	<label xml:lang="en">has earlier version</label>
	<comment xml:lang="en">
		<p>
			A thing which is an earlier revision of this thing.
		</p>
		<p>
			This property is transitive; <ptr target="sioc:previous_version"/> provides the intransitive form.
		</p>
		<p>
			<ptr target="(SIOC)"/> restricts the domain and range of this property to <ref target="sioc:Item">Items</ref>, but this ontology does not recognize this restriction.
		</p>
	</comment>
	<isDefinedBy>
		<SpecificResource source="(SIOC)" fragment="term_earlier_version"/>
	</isDefinedBy>
	<subPropertyOf>
		<resource name="dcterms:isVersionOf"/>
	</subPropertyOf>
	<inverseOf>
		<resource name="sioc:later_version"/>
	</inverseOf>
</ObjectProperty>