Hi Mike --
In such cases, yes, I agree it might not be terribly useful. But I'm thinking of inventories where there's a single date per item, or where the dates are much much smaller ranges, and also of inventories where one might want to sort on some other parameter as well. See for example our American Book Company finding aid, where we decided to offer the data as a spreadsheet to as to enable sorting by date, title, subject area, etc: http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/amer_book_co.htm#series1 and http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/amer_book_co.htm#series4 .
Michele
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How would one and what would be the utility of sorting multiple dates ranges?
1860-1912
1885-1898
1887-2010
By the first date in the range?
Actually how is less difficult a question to answer than why.
To know, for searching purposes, that 1887 falls within the date range 1860-1945 seems more useful than ordering the ranges listed above by the first date.
Michael Fox
On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:48 PM, "Michele R Combs" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Really?? That’s…disappointing.
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This would be a useful function. The difficulty in sorting by date is that the date must be encoded in a machine processable way. That's possible with the normal attribute, but I gather many institutions don't mandate machine-readable dates for all objects.
Ethan
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Custer, Mark <<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
No, but I've wanted to do the same... well, I've wanted to do the same for born-digital portions of inventories, wherein the data from any sort-able column could be generated and encoded automatically (date, title, file size, format, etc.). So, even though I don't know of any EAD examples that illustrate this, there are plenty of other examples online (here's one: <http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/datatable/dt_basic_clean.html> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/datatable/dt_basic_clean.html ).
Do you have a container list from a specific collection in mind?
Mark
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Does anyone know of any examples of delivering EAD finding aids in such a way that the inventory section can be sorted in different ways (by container, by title, by date) ?
Michele
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