stefanieschneider/unstruwwel
Detect and Parse Historic Dates in R
This tool helps historians, researchers, and archivists standardize messy historical date information found in textual sources. It takes various language-specific verbal descriptions like "circa 1st half of the 19th century" or "late 16th century" and converts them into precise, machine-readable date ranges or specific points in time using the ISO 8601:2-2019 standard. This is for anyone who works with historical documents and needs to consistently organize and analyze dates.
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Use this if you regularly encounter ambiguous or free-form historical dates in your research data and need a reliable way to convert them into a standardized, parseable format.
Not ideal if your dates are already in a clean, standard format or if you primarily work with modern, exact date and time data.
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