Greetings! While learning how Arches works and testing it out in house, we found that adding Extended Date/Time Format <http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/pre-submission.html>support to Arches date fields would possibly benefit users who need to manage a wider range of dates in their inventory system: dates such as "about 1800" or date ranges such as "1934 - present".
We've developed a validation function that can handle such date strings while maintaining consistency and basic integrity for search in Arches. The feature is available to the community at our Github repository along with more detailed technical documentation <https://github.com/coherit/edtf-arches-hip> for installing and testing. Our recent blog article <http://www.coherit.com/blog/fuzzy-dates-edtf-arches/> provides some background as well. Please try it out -- we welcome all contributions and issue reports at our repo! Hope this helps out some folks, Angela Labrador, PhD. Coherit Associates, LLC -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
