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Hello. Joined after discussing with Greg at WR.  As you see from my user page I'm still struggling with the 'ask' queries.  Well, not struggling much but my main interest is building an academic resource which would allow searching for philosophers (or any other historical figure) by the period they were flourishing in.  My struggle is with the ISO date format which is of course a string, but all date searches involve ordering of some sort, so how do you convert date strings into orderable units?  Well I can see the ISO format used can be sorted, but then for medieval philosophers the best we usually have is year of birth.  So to I create a pretend date format 1265-00-00 which is orderable, or just 1265 (which it seems to understand).  Any help appreciated.  [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 05:21, 28 January 2008 (PST)

Hello. Joined after discussing with Greg at WR.  As you see from my user page I'm still struggling with the 'ask' queries.  Well, not struggling much but my main interest is building an academic resource which would allow searching for philosophers (or any other historical figure) by the period they were flourishing in.  My struggle is with the ISO date format which is of course a string, but all date searches involve ordering of some sort, so how do you convert date strings into orderable units?  Well I can see the ISO format used can be sorted, but then for medieval philosophers the best we usually have is year of birth.  So to I create a pretend date format 1265-00-00 which is orderable, or just 1265 (which it seems to understand).  Any help appreciated.  [[User:Ockham|Ockham]] 05:21, 28 January 2008 (PST)