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Display of EDTF Level 1 unspecified digits dates is nonsensical #1754

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kspurgin opened this issue Feb 5, 2021 · 1 comment
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Display of EDTF Level 1 unspecified digits dates is nonsensical #1754

kspurgin opened this issue Feb 5, 2021 · 1 comment
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Subject: Dates related to managing dates in Islandora. Consider also using the search and metadata tags.

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kspurgin commented Feb 5, 2021

Currently:

200X displays as: unspecified year in 2000

20XX displays as: unspecified decade in 2000

Neither makes sense. And 20XX is specified as being at the year precision level, so would refer to a year, not a decade.

Suggested improved display:

200X -> unspecified year in range 2000 to 2009
20XX -> unspecified year in range 2000 to 2099

Things I considered and rejected:

  • Change X to 0 and add an s. This works for something like 202X or 19XX, but both of the above examples get changed to unspecified year in the 2000s which is bad
  • Using wording unspecified year between 2000 and 2009 but that then implies to the most literal part of my brain that the actual possible range is 2001-2008. And then my brain starts to melt and I start to consider starting a goat circus instead of ever thinking about these things again.
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kspurgin commented Feb 5, 2021

meta-issue #1748

@kstapelfeldt kstapelfeldt added Subject: Dates related to managing dates in Islandora. Consider also using the search and metadata tags. and removed dates labels Sep 25, 2021
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