Hi Diane,
On Feb 21, 2007, at 1:27 PM, Diane I. Hillmann wrote:
> In library-land, named dates/periods are the rule, rather than the
> exception. Occasionally the labels include dates as well as names (as
> part of the same string), but the intention is to be human readable.
>
> I think the same situation extends to museums.
This doesn't surprise me given my experience with MODS and such
(indeed, I was assuming this was coming from a library perspective),
but with date-normalized (and maybe data-typed) literals, it's trivial
to create human readable labels on-the-fly, so not clear to me why
they're needed in the RDF.
But this gets us back to the question of how to weigh different
community needs (and the implications of different choices)
My worry is that defining everything as having ranges is a heavy-weight
solution for what is generally considered a lightweight standard.
Bruce
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