[Data-modeling] Events

[Kirrily Robert]

----- "Jeff Prucher" <jeff at metaweb.com> wrote:
> Of course, since political boundaries are shifting constantly, would
> it even
> make sense to try to use only current locations for events? If Kosovo
> secedes from Serbia, would we have to go into all the events, no
> matter how
> ancient,  that we claim occurred in Serbia, and figure out which ones
> should
> be in modern Kosovo instead? 

Exactly.  It's a complete PITA.  That's why I was thinking that some types that include event, such as maybe Olympic Games, could list a location but then others like "Classical Antiquity" and "20th century" wouldn't need to.

K.

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Kirrily Robert
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