Thanks Richard
I was wondering whether there was a short form generic equivalent to e.g. 'date range certainty' that might be built into a LD semantic tag, on an annotation or similar; and not just for person - for an event or object for example?
I'll take a look at Lives again.
cheers
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James
On 1 Jun 2015, at 16:57, Richard Light wrote:
> James,
>
> The example which springs to my mind is the IWM Lives of WW1 project. Instead of a scale of 'truthiness', they ask for specific sources for any assertion (e.g. [1]). They further ask for reasons why the source is deemed to relate to the person in question. IIRC you do have the option of recording the source as "personal memory" or similar.
>
> I think this approach is more objective and (con-)testable than asking someone to assert that an anecdote about a person is the "absolute truth", or to give it a score out of ten.
>
> And I hope you've got your libel lawyers on standby ... :-)
>
> Richard
>
> [1] https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/3122330
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