That's a fascinating resource.
As I'm sure everyone on this list knows, castles are always relevant. So
one thing that occurs to me is that in some instances buildings will have
been converted into prisons (eg: Lancaster Castle). It might be worth
creating separate Wikidata items where that is the case and linking the
two, as otherwise you may have an inception date in the 1090s for a prison.
That's the approach being used for data from the Atlas of Hillforts, as
where a castles was built on a hillfort (eg: Caus Castle) you would end up
with two inception dates which is a bit messy.
Richard
On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 09:43, Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net> wrote:
On 18 Jul 2018, at 22:26, Andy Mabbett
<andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
wrote:
On 18 July 2018 at 16:44, Magnus Manske <magnusmanske(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
> A heads up that there is a new database of
historic (c19th)
> English prisons:
Is anyone writing a property proposal for this?
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Prison_History_ID
Thanks,
Mike
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