[OHM] Mapping what's on the ground and other good practices

Burrito Justice burritojustice at oram.com
Fri Mar 1 23:46:39 UTC 2013


Perhaps more frequent than controversy will be uncertainty -- both "circa" and, well, whatever the geolocation equivalent of circa is. Range error?

-John

On Mar 1, 2013, at 2:08 PM, Richard Welty <rwelty at averillpark.net> wrote:

> On 3/1/13 4:54 PM, Ed Dykhuizen wrote:
>> I can probably throw in some input here. I don't know if you'll be able to
>> construct standards for acceptability beforehand. Maybe there can be some
>> -- no Atlantises, for example -- but I imagine that there are going to be a
>> ton of disputes that won't get resolved, and in order to show something
>> coherent, you'll have to rely on the judgments of a bunch of qualified
>> editors. Sometimes you'll want to show both sides, like the possible routes
>> of Hannibal or the Kashmir dispute. Sometimes you'll have to just ignore
>> theories that have less traction in historical discourse. You could set up
>> methods for resolving disagreements beforehand, but probably can't start
>> out with many specific standards of what constitutes historical accuracy.
> +1
> 
> even in the history of the American Civil War, which is only 150 years past,
> there are both known and unknown problems in historic knowledge, and
> erroneous conventional wisdom that is in some cases being detected and
> fixed, and in other cases, well, not being fixed.
> 
> the further in the past you go, the worse it's going to be.
> 
> richard
> 
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