Date_Type missing for >500 individuals

[stschiff]

I checked how Date_Type is filled currently with something equivalent to

trident list --remote --individuals -j Date_Type | cut -f4 | sort | uniq -c

yielding

3181 C14
2356 contextual
7404 modern
 534 n/a

Apparently we have 534 missing values in that column, which needs fixing.

[stschiff]

Is this still the case? Anyway a good project for @dhananjaya93, in my view.

[nevrome]

@dhananjaya93 and I realized that this is not as trivial as it might seem. Many of these n/a values mean, that the respective samples/individuals have no clear dating in the respective papers. They are not directly dated and the authors sometimes don't make clear, numeric statements how they should be temporally located.

So we could set a lot of these n/a values to contextual, but to really solve this beyond a superficial fix would mean, to go into the papers and make an authoritative decision about the general age range relevant for each individual.

[stschiff]

OK, but I would think David may have already made decisions about contextual date ranges? Can we check that?

[nevrome]

True! That's an idea.