Description
Label an institution's supplied historical category and date wording.
Critical annotations distinguish source voices, editorial insertions, omission markers, edition locators and caller-assigned interpretations. Case preservation and half-open text offsets describe representation rather than meaning. A bracketed token or source-role label does not verify faithful quotation, authority, an argument or its historical context.
Label an institution's supplied historical category and date wording.
When to use this tool
Use Institution Category Historical Date Label when you already have institutionCode, categoryWording, dateText and need to label an institution's supplied historical category and date wording.
How to use the tool and how it works
- Enter institutionCode, categoryWording, dateText. Use the units and conventions below.
- Run the tool. Correct any format, range, or cross-field input error before interpreting the output.
- Read label. Use the output convention below.
Require all three strings nonempty; append category and date text.1
| Input field | Meaning and units | Accepted input |
|---|---|---|
| institutionCode | Institution Code | Required. Text; minimum UTF-16 length 1; maximum UTF-16 length 8192. |
| categoryWording | Category Wording | Required. Text; minimum UTF-16 length 1; maximum UTF-16 length 8192. |
| dateText | Date Text | Required. Text; minimum UTF-16 length 1; maximum UTF-16 length 8192. |
| Output field | Interpretation | Returned shape |
|---|---|---|
| label | Label | Required. Text; maximum UTF-16 length 8192. |
{
"input": {
"institutionCode": "I17",
"categoryWording": "recorded category",
"dateText": "c. 1900"
},
"output": {
"label": "I17 [recorded category; c. 1900]"
}
}Limitations and assumptions
- Dates are unparsed and the category is supplied. No institution, historical validity, classification authority or theoretical claim is established.
- Inputs must satisfy both the field types and the cross-field conditions above. Invalid input causes an error; a successful false flag or documented placeholder is a different result.
Alternative or Complementary methods
Read the original passage and relevant edition with the stated interpretive and editorial conventions. Verify source context and attribution before reuse; local span labels and interpretation-objection pair keys organize records without evaluating the argument or granting quotation rights.
References
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