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Make it clear that broader/narrower relations are all direct

Open atomrab opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

How do we construct broader/narrower relationships for the following set of periods?

Bronze Age Late Bronze Age Late Bronze Age III Late Bronze Age IIIC

Are all the subperiods in a "broader" relationship with the top-level "Bronze Age" only? Or should each one only go up one level (so Late Bronze Age IIIC is narrower than Late Bronze Age III but not Late Bronze Age or Bronze Age)? Or should anything below a second-tier division just go up to the second tier (so Late Bronze Age IIIC and Late Bronze Age III are both narrower than Late Bronze Age, but IIIC is not described as narrower than III)?

If these relationships are inherited, so that it's apparent that any subperiod of a subperiod of a subperiod is also a subperiod of the main period, I would prefer that each subperiod only refer back one level (LBA IIIC is a subperiod of LBA III). But we should explain this somewhere, or we're going to have a lot of inconsistent submissions.

This issue is occasioned by a patch (see #221) that has relationships and expresses them as LBAIIIC<LBAIII rather than LBAIIIC<LBA.

atomrab avatar Jan 30 '20 21:01 atomrab