Feature #402
closedBegin, end, birth and death (precise and fuzzy)
Description
Idea: It will sometimes be necessary to record a timespan in which the beginning/birth (or death or whatever event) took place.
Example: Person A was born somewhen between the 1st of May 2003 and November 2014.
Possible Solution: Link person A via OA1a (born at) with 2 time primitives. The earlier one is logically the "from" and the other one the "to" value.
Updated by Alexander Watzinger over 9 years ago
- Subject changed from from-to values for Begin/End of whatever may have a begin or end to Begin and End (precise and fuzzy)
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from New to In Progress
- Priority changed from Normal to 3
- Target version set to 35
Things to consider:
1) We will use it a lot. Data will be fuzzy most of the time.
2) I would like to use timestamps, but we would have to use valid full dates (day/month/year)
I like your idea to offer one date field for e.g. begin, which can be expanded to two date fields to define a period.
Because of 2) both fields have to be full dates. e.g.
If it was known that a person was born in 1473 the first field would be 1.1.1473 and the second 31.12.1473
If it is known that a person was born in the late 15 century it would be something like 1.1.1490 and 31.12.1499
That way we could use timestamps continuously which make querys much more performant or even possible.
I didn't looked into how to implement this with the CRM. Challenges there would be:
1) How to distinguish if it was an exact date or a period - if the only difference is that there are two links instead of one the querys would get very messy
2) With actors: distinguish between birth and first appearance - in the UI its only a checkbox but in the CRM they should have different links
3) Design it in a way that it is still understandable for "outsiders" and compatible with similar projects or data sets
Updated by Stefan Eichert over 9 years ago
Updated by Alexander Watzinger over 9 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
- Estimated time set to 8.00 h
Updated by Alexander Watzinger over 9 years ago
- Subject changed from Begin and End (precise and fuzzy) to Begin, end, birth and death (precise and fuzzy)
Updated by Alexander Watzinger over 9 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from In Progress to Closed
Updated by Alexander Watzinger about 9 years ago
- Project changed from 19 to OpenAtlas
- Category deleted (
39) - Target version deleted (
35)