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Managing art history fuzzy dates: an application in historico-geographical authority
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Abstract Art history data management leads to express dates in a "fuzzy" way,
which is not suitable for electronic processing. A standardized easy to use
way of coding dates, maintaining all the semantics of the "natural" format,
has been defined. Each date is, therefore, expressed (in the extended
way) ... view more
Art history data management leads to express dates in a "fuzzy" way,
which is not suitable for electronic processing. A standardized easy to use
way of coding dates, maintaining all the semantics of the "natural" format,
has been defined. Each date is, therefore, expressed (in the extended
way) as a string of characters, with a well defined syntax, while it is really
managed as a set of fields, which contain in a coded way, the same information
that are contained in the extended format. The coded format of
dates is easily and transparently managed by every Data Base Management
System, allowing selection by exact values or by ranges. This conventional
way of managing dates has been tested in the implementation of a DBMS
based historico-geographical authority file.... view less
Keywords
electronic data processing; historical social research; art history; data preparation
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Method
development of methods
Document language
English
Publication Year
1989
Page/Pages
p. 98-104
Journal
Historical Social Research, 14 (1989) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.14.1989.3.98-104
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed