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Identifying historical locations and geographical boundaries #44

Open BlemonBL opened 6 years ago

BlemonBL commented 6 years ago

“As an archivist at a public record office, I need to be able to identify the precise geographical boundaries of wards and parishes at specific points in time in order to provide accurate information to researchers and legal professionals.”

BlemonBL commented 6 years ago

A note to acknowledge that PIDs for historical people, historical geographies and timeframes are unlikely to fit with current formats or approaches to metadata. They will likely rely upon further collaborative projects that can collate definitions of people, places and eras and can handle multiple versions of the same subject.

BlemonBL commented 6 years ago

From Richard Ostler at Rothamsted Research (www.rothamsted.ac.uk): "PIDs for historical geographies is an issue. In our case historical boundaries are typically agricultural fields or experimental plots. So capturing the temporal extent of some object would be helpful. In the case of historical experimental plots, these may be related to contemporary experimental plots, for example, by Plot X was split in to new experiment plots X.1 & X.2. We also have locations which no longer exist (for example we have datasets associated with experimental plots at research stations which have since closed down)."

ChrisVFerg commented 6 years ago

Notwithstanding Barbara's comment on Aug 8th above that historical locations/geographies are unlikely to fit with current formats: I've assigned the label 'sample' here - since this is how these were classified in D3.1.