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is it an activity? #7

Open valevo opened 3 months ago

valevo commented 3 months ago

background

In the RG on Pieter Pott (niveau3), the Wereldmuseum Leiden is listed in the "Activity" list of tags (see here).

open question

From the other tag "Museumdirecteur" in the list, it seems that Pott was the director of the Wereldmuseum Leiden but this both not entirely clear and cannot be understood by automated processes which interpret this information. Moreover, items tagged as "activities" should preferably be terms that correspond to actions (/verbs), such as "director" (derived from the verb "to direct") -- this is not the case for a museum term.

How do we deal with this?

Two possible answers:

  1. "Leiden" is listed in the geographical tags, so the Wereldmuseum Leiden could be listed here as well, to indicate that Pott was active there.
  2. This could be one of the place where complex referencing would show its usefulness: Instead of using markdown linking syntax on its own (providing nothing other than the link label and link URL), the reference could be turned into a dictionary:
    Activiteit:
      - "[1]"

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