Category: Garrettson-93 0en

Categories: Garrettson-93

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The categorized WORLD

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Standort KATEGORIE
Level = 0 (WORLD) Lang = en

Concept

TEST and LEARNING Environment:

This Category is part of a test- and learning environment to allow the author to familiarize himself with the implementation and consequences of existing functions so as to better formulate precise questions and development suggestions.

Problem statement / Development goal

At the moment there appears to be an unsolvable tension concerning the creation and use of location categories.

On ONE side, you want to have a simple, preferably eternally valid structure, with which people whose biographies are connected to a certain place can be identified for display and analysis and their profiles can be put together by categorizing them accordingly.

On the other hand, there is the complex reality, whereby the locations that SHOULD be categorized uniformly to identify all affected profiles COULD be categorized with multiple time- and language-dependent labels that make sense to the person and time for different reasons.

As a consequence, voices are being raised arguing for a uniform categorization based on "today" (and even the deletion of all "historical" site categories), without considering that "today" in the future will be just as "historical" as location names that deserve that designation for today's user.

Solution

We are looking for a solution which can map changes in the real world with minimal effort, if possible WITHOUT changes in pre-existing categorization of individual profiles already provided with location categories at the lowest level.

A key role is played by the concept of a "location category", and a clear definition of the effect of certain changes in the real world will have on the category structure and how they should be modelled.

At the same time, the technical possibilities for implementation must be taken into account - both one-off changes and development of corresponding templates and tools, and the practical steps which will have to be taken to model specifc changes in the real world.

Principles

1. A location category represents a specific TERRITORY and is valid as long as no territorial changes are known (or modelled). Any territorial change requires the creation of new versions of all affected location categories.
2. Standort categories on one level represent ALL territories of the parent category. ^[1]
3. Wenn there are no TERRITORIAL changes, but only changes in the name and/or hierarchical assignment, NO new location category will be created. ^[2]
4. ONLY the smallest possible or known location categories are assigned to individual profiles. ^[3]
5. Parallele categories for MULTILINGUALISM are welcome. They should always all refer to ONE basic category (in one of the languages).
6. Die base category for a given location category is used as the only "parent" for all language variants of the sub-site categories.^[4]

This category

Concept and Test Scenario

This "Level-0" category is designed as a super-category for all territories covered. There is theoretically a second category at level-0, which would be called something like "all uncovered territories of the world", and thus the principle "categories on one level represent all territories of the superordinate category".

Territorial scope

This category encompasses the entire Earth.

Start Date

This category includes all times that can be recorded in WikiTree, i.e. from 01.01.0001 AD

End Date

This category has no end date, or "the present" is set as the end date.

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