Approximate dates
Posted: 03 Feb 2019 08:09
I wonder how http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Cate ... birth_year could be differently organized: There are an awful lot of empty 14c categories, and I'm pretty sure if it were a bar graph we'd see a lot of bumps around years ending in 0 or 5. On the one hand I like to leave categories that afford an excuse to commemorate an anniversary (D-M birthdays are useful too!), but on the other I feel strongly that we should not be spreading misleading information. A parallel bunch of categories c. 1300, c. 1301, c. 1302 &c would be even more cumbersome to browse, though.
Would it be feasible to display, for example, persons by birth year as a list N (Y) with the output:
Josquin des Prez (c. 1450) [well, still a lot of controversy, but…]
Walter Lambe (c. 1450)
Jacob Obrecht (c. 1450) [ignoring for the moment that the 1450 category is quite wide of the mark]
Matthaeus Pipelare (c. 1450)
Bertrandus Vaqueras (c. 1450)
Franchino Gaffurio (1451)
Walter Lambe (c. 1451) [relisting resulting from a double categorization]
Pierre de la Rue (c. 1452)
Girolamo Savonarola (1452)
& so forth,
or else with uncertain dates italicized [Edit: I'd forgotten the discussion page and the existence of http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Chor ... 50s_births]
1450
Josquin des Prez
Walter Lambe
Jacob Obrecht
Matthaeus Pipelare
Bertrandus Vaqueras
1451
Franchino Gaffurio
1452
Pierre de la Rue
Girolamo Savonarola
Would it be feasible to display, for example, persons by birth year as a list N (Y) with the output:
Josquin des Prez (c. 1450) [well, still a lot of controversy, but…]
Walter Lambe (c. 1450)
Jacob Obrecht (c. 1450) [ignoring for the moment that the 1450 category is quite wide of the mark]
Matthaeus Pipelare (c. 1450)
Bertrandus Vaqueras (c. 1450)
Franchino Gaffurio (1451)
Walter Lambe (c. 1451) [relisting resulting from a double categorization]
Pierre de la Rue (c. 1452)
Girolamo Savonarola (1452)
& so forth,
or else with uncertain dates italicized [Edit: I'd forgotten the discussion page and the existence of http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Chor ... 50s_births]
1450
Josquin des Prez
Walter Lambe
Jacob Obrecht
Matthaeus Pipelare
Bertrandus Vaqueras
1451
Franchino Gaffurio
1452
Pierre de la Rue
Girolamo Savonarola