[Data-modeling] Events

John Giannandrea jg at metaweb.com
Thu Feb 14 20:36:05 UTC 2008


Personally, I would not conflate location with time, unless you have a  
lot of data to be loaded that has that relation.
-jg

Kirrily Robert wrote:
> 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.



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