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Lettercraft & Epistolary Performance in Medieval Europe
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Groups of People #12

Closed XanderVertegaal closed 7 months ago

XanderVertegaal commented 8 months ago

We should have a model for Groups of people. I guess users should also be allowed to indicate that individual Persons are part of a group.

XanderVertegaal commented 8 months ago

Related to this: the Role model now accepts only one Person. It makes sense to make it accept multiple instances of Person and PersonGroup (or whatever we decide to call the groups of people.

lukavdplas commented 8 months ago

It makes sense that Role only accepts one person - if multiple people are involved in an action, they each have their own Role (though the nature of the role can be the same for multiple actors).

XanderVertegaal commented 7 months ago

We have asked the researchers to reflect on this.

Question sent to the team on February 7th:

How to describe groups of people? Are groups unique to their role in an action, or does it make sense to have a list of groups? In case of the latter, we also have to deal with people leaving/entering groups over time. Another point of difficulty is that individuals may be implicitly part of a group.

XanderVertegaal commented 7 months ago

We are going to keep the same Person model for this, but rename it to Agent. The model needs an additional field is_group. We can then also add another value for Gender (mixed), which should only be selected if is_group is set to True. Fields such as PersonDateOfBirth and PersonDateOfDeath are not relevant for groups.