[Data-modeling] Events

[Kirrily Robert]

----- "Jeff Prucher" <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:
> I agree. A use case is military conflicts, for which Wikipedia
> already
> contains extractable super/sub-conflict relationships. (E.g. "the
> invasion
> of normandy" is a part of "world war II"; "the battle of omaha beach"
> is
> part of the invasion of normandy, etc.)

OK, that sounds sane.

I was thinking this morning on the train about event locations.  If historic periods are just long-running events, then what is the location of the 20th century? Or of the Impressionist Movement in art?  

One thing I found when populating some data in event and historic period was that it starts to run into problems of dated locations, too.  What was the location of the historical period "Classical Antiquity"?  Is "Italy" a sensible location to list there, given that Italy didn't exist as such until quite recently?  If, instead, we list locations as they were at the time, then it becomes very difficult to eg. search for events occuring in any given Balkan state.

K.

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Kirrily Robert
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