Multiple timespans

[azaroth42]

Question from call on 2024-03-20:

Please could we talk about TimeSpan and what to do when you have a group record (such as an archival collection record) that has multiple assigned timespans, for example, multiple actors associated with the collection, and separately entered multiple timespans, but no information about which timespan goes with which actor (i.e. information that may overall make sense to a human but which is challenging to model semantically when a lot of the nuance is missing) – how can these multiple timespans be modelled in Linked.Art – partitioning of a TimeSpan doesn’t seem to be semantically correct nor currently possible according to the model – merging the individual timespans into a singular begin_of_the_begin and end_of_the_end is a partial option (choosing the earliest part all the dates for the begin and the latest part of all the dates for the end), but this approach loses a lot of resolution from the data.

[azaroth42]

A similar scenario is a group that forms, is dissolved, and then reformed.