Timeline for When documenting location, should current or historical place names be used?
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| Oct 14, 2012 at 14:22 | comment | added | ACProctor | Ok, I think I understand better now. My Place entity includes all the accepted name variants, spelling variants, hierarchical variants, etc., but has a single title field used for display purposes. That entity embraces the conclusions for the place. The specific text describing the place in a given record can be transcribed and used to accompany the reference, especially if it's questionable or unusual. However, that's considered an item of evidence from a given source. In other words, we may use different models. My Person entities follow almost exactly the same approach. | |
| Oct 14, 2012 at 14:05 | comment | added | Fortiter | I think that we agree fundamentally but I need to overcome a focus on the "label" of the place entity. I know that each has an unique numeric ID under the hood. Any other label is irrelevant to the logic and purely for the convenience of the human reader? In which case, I can call each instance whatever suits its context so long as the link to the entity is correct? | |
| Oct 14, 2012 at 9:26 | comment | added | ACProctor | Places tend to be given a lesser role in many products and databases but they can be equally important to the history of a family, and the similarities in representing a person and a place can be leveraged. In summary, I do not consider a place reference in my own data to be simply a transcribed name. Maybe that's the essential difference in our viewpoints. | |
| Oct 14, 2012 at 9:23 | comment | added | ACProctor | The Place entity represents the place in your data. This can have multiple names, just as with a Person entity that represents a person. The situation is very similar. If person-a is mentioned in multiple contexts, you don't duplicate their names (& other properties) for every such reference - you would reference a Person entity that encapsulates those properties, notes, history, pictures. NB: This is at the data level. What your software then does with it is a different topic. | |
| Oct 14, 2012 at 6:25 | comment | added | Fortiter | You seem to have moved the question from "how to name places" to "how to name place entities" without actually answering it. What label do you apply to a place entity which has had multiple names attached through time? | |
| Oct 11, 2012 at 15:27 | history | answered | ACProctor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |