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Am I Going To Be Single For Ever? You Asked Google – Here’s The Answer | Bella Mackie | Opinion | The Guardian
Fill your life with people who will love you in a myriad of ways
Your grandparents celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary, but you might have several different types of relationship, with periods of being by yourself too. Your relationship status might always be “complicated” but that doesn’t mean you’ve failed. Be mindful that…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
A standard that leaves periods undefined
As its primary role is to enable exchange and integration between sources of cultural heritage, it does not go into the details necessary to create and manage a thesaurus of periods. It does not propose a standard format nor does it analyze how to define a period.
Identity criteria for historical periods
Identity criteria are types of reported phenomena or the kinds of their observable traces that determine the unity and identify the cultural continuity of a period. We distinguish an instance of a period from another by a defining, unique property. By this property, any…
Defining vs descriptive criteria of periods
Contrary to defining criteria, general characteristics of a period can be documented as part of their description. General characteristics are not part of period definition because they cannot change or determine the existence and the identity of a period. There are types of…
Why historical periods are hard to define
The complex and multidimensional notion of cultural (historical or archaeological) period makes quite difficult a definition and a formal analysis of period and generally a relative chronological documentation.
Ming dynasty versus Ming porcelain
We therefore propose to distinguish between the phenomena, that have left distinct traces and are taken as objective indicators for the coherence of the respective period (the identity criterion), and other characteristic phenomena, distinct or not, that are either product of…
What thesauri of cultural periods should do
[...] thesauri are collections of terms with generally agreed-on semantics and not individual definitions or representations of a concept (Doerr and Kalomoirakis 2000). Well-designed thesauri of cultural periods should help to: - define cultural periods and phases based on the…
Points in time are not observable
Intuitively, many systems regard points in time as a means to recognize events and the temporal end-points of periods, confusing definition with conclusion, and identity with non-unique properties (actually, the absolutely precise point in time when an event happens is not…
Events are not causal to the identity of a period
Some events are closely related to the definition of a period. We mark them as starting event or terminating event. A frequent intuition is that some kind of distinct event should be responsible for the upcoming of a new cultural phase (as required by Biers 1992). The…