Incident-time view
Reconstruct the network using only information available to the organization at the selected decision moment.
03 · Bitemporal reconstruction
What happened—and what was known then—are different questions.
Bitemporal analysis records both the period an assertion applies to and the period it was present in the system. That distinction protects historical reconstruction from hindsight.
Valid timeWHEN IT APPLIED
Known timeWHEN RECORDED
Current-best view
Reconstruct the same period using later corrections and subsequently acquired information, without overwriting history.