[Data-modeling] Modeling uncertainty

[Scott Blomquist]

I just encountered a scenario today that would benefit from the same
solution as your date example. I found some events whose times I've only
been able to pin down so far to "Spring 1985", and I don't think I have any
good way to represent that in an event today.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is anyone doing work on modeling uncertainty?  I'm specifically
> interested in dates and locations.
>
> Location - If I'm told that something is "near" or "in the vicinity
> of" a location, currently my choices are to either not record the fact
> or to guess at a way to reduce the precision in a way that's still
> accurate.  I could say that something which is "near Boston" is "in
> Massachusetts," but a) that might not be true and b) that's not the
> information that I have.
>
> Dates - The simple case is "circa," but it would also be useful to
> deal with both open and closed ranges (e.g. before 1945, after 1999,
> or September 2008-December 2008).  Currently the only type of range
> that can be encoded is ones which can be made by truncating precision
> (ie 2009 == 1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2009).
>
> Tom
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