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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