On Sun, 22 May 2011 21:03:59 +0200
Saašha Metsärantala <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>[...] the following date
>(2009)?-03-(04)?
>
>could be represented as
>{
> "year": 2009,
> "month": 3,
> "day": 4,
> "questionable": ["year", "day"]
>}
[...]
FWIW, I like this.
I can't speak to implementation details and trade-offs of complexity; I'm just an onlooker who, in an expression like "(2009)?-03-(04)?", saw the kind of expressive power that I've been hoping for for a long time.
For archivists, people in the historical disciplines, and scholarly editors, these corner cases are by no means uncommon. (Sorry, I haven't had time lately to provide further examples from our documentary editions, but I hope I'll get around doing that some time soon.) Whether EDTF can (or even wants to) cater to these communities is a different matter, of course.
Not to stretch things---just to make sure we're on the same page: you still intend to distinguish precision ("approximate") and certainty ("questionable"), right?
So, would the following (modified from Saasha's example above) expression still be in the realm of what can be feasibly discussed?
(2009)?-03-(04)~
{
"year": 2009,
"month": 3,
"day": 4,
"questionable": ["year"],
"approximate": ["day"]
}
Thanks much,
Markus
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