Re: Historical events

Thank you. I know about https://schema.org/Date, which I use for actual dates. I was wondering specifically about events, and tried marking historical events as events but that generated errors in the validator because I didn’t have a time and location marked up. Event seems intended for commercial events held in venues that one can buy tickets for. It doesn’t seem to really fit for something that happened sometime in the late Bronze Age—or  the Plague in London 1665-1666. It would be nice to be able to specify that information because then I could select all historical events in any particular text.

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On May 29, 2018, at 5:09 AM, chaals is Charles McCathie Nevile <chaals@yandex.ru<mailto:chaals@yandex.ru>> wrote:

You can use https://schema.org/Date for various properties that are dates, and currently it says it is "an ISO 8601 date". Which, given the proposed update to that standard, **might** mean you can use an uncertain year range. (I don't have a copy of the document, so I am going on the Library of Congress syntax which I think got modified...)

e.g. [-1400?~..-1200?~]/[-1400?~..-1200?~]

In HTML you could also use a time element to provide the named period "The Trojan War".


It is a repeated question because the Web platform generally does not have a very useful answer :(

cheers

Chaals

25.05.2018, 18:10, "Muri, Allison" <allison.muri@usask.ca<mailto:allison.muri@usask.ca>>:
Hello,

I’ve been looking around for some way to markup historical events, for example “the Trojan War.” It seems there were initiatives around 2012 or so (http://historical-data.org<http://historical-data.org/>; http://historical-data-schema.blogspot.ca/) that seem to have stalled. I’m new to this group, so apologies if I’m asking something that is repetitive.

All the best,
Allison
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Professor Allison Muri
Department of English

Arts 418
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK, Canada
ph: 306.966.5503


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