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CfP: Communication Socialis Bildethik im digitalen Zeitalter

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  Die medienethische Zeitschrift „Communicatio Socialis“ bittet um Einreichungen für das kommende Heft 4/2024 zum Thema „Bildethik im digitalen Zeitalter“.   Die Zeitschrift „Communicatio Socialis“ behandelt aus medienethischer Perspektive Trends und Probleme gesellschaftlicher, medienvermittelter Kommunikation. Die Digitalisierung mit ihren Folgen für Öffentlichkeit und Gemeinwohl steht dabei im Fokus. Das Heft erscheint vier Mal im Jahr […]

Quelle: https://visual-history.de/2024/03/18/cfp-communication-socialis-bildethik-im-digitalen-zeitalter/

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A software that does Julian and Gregorian Calendar dates, or why Wikibase is about to lead us into utter confusion

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It was in February 2019 at a conference dinner of medievalists in Jena when I was first confronted with the calendar problem which Wikibase had been posing ever since it had digested its first Julian calendar dates. I had given a Wikibase demonstration earlier that day and now I was sitting next to a medievalist who was ready to destroy me: “Wikibase”, he stated, “is a genuine disaster without anyone understanding it.”

I demanded to hear why that should be the case and He asked me to show him the first random medieval date I would find on Wikidata. I had activated my phone and landed on a 16th-century biography…

“See that small print?” he asked, “the dates are all noted as a Gregorian calendar dates before 1584.”

The qualifier was odd.

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Quelle: https://blog.factgrid.de/archives/3467

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