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Work place of origin/Date #17

Closed gabays closed 2 years ago

gabays commented 3 years ago

Should we recommend good practictes regarding the Work place of origin/Date of the metadata? If we want to use them, it is better tidy up this. Is Burgundy/Dijon in France or in Burgundy?

Jean-Baptiste-Camps commented 3 years ago

We can recommand some loose Guidelines, perhaps ? But I don't see us normalizing places for all Medieval and Ancient Europe (and possibly more)… Or point to some authority list, like @GusRiva suggested for works and authors ?

gabays commented 3 years ago

An authority list would be great, but it is a lot of work… I was thinking about more simple things like adding the region/province if there is a town for instance. Beauvais (Picardie, France). It does not have to be strict, but it would help users, and possible queries in the future. If we end up with things from portuguese monasteries or swedish castles, we are going to lose track of things because no one knows where they are on the map…

Jean-Baptiste-Camps commented 3 years ago

Ok, so we have two options:

modern reference (as generally recommended), for instance: Thionville (Moselle, France); Thillot (canton d'Étain, Meuse, France).
old style (Thionville, county of Luxemburg, etc.).

I guess we should go for the first one ?

gabays commented 3 years ago

Yes we should, otherwise it is a total mess to figure out the correct denomination