2024-11-07 monthly meeting

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Agenda

• hear from Erin McCarthy about her work with complicated dates on the STEMMA project
• share updates :
  • experimenting with LLMs for parsing human readable dates; notes on human readable date formatter #79
  • discussion of how to integrate calendar conversion into undate; discussion notes 2024-10-24 discuss historic calendar conversion & undate logic #95 and updated implementation notes implemented converted date for dates from other calendars #10
  • proposed software paper for CH journal special issue on missing data
• merge long-standing pull requests so we can move forward with new work
  • Use numpy datetime64 instead of datetime.date #77 #84
  • Make EDTF parser available as undate formatter; handle 5+ digit years #89
  • preliminary str parse and format methods #90
• decisions/questions/discussion:
  • propose renaming formatter classes to converter so it can include converting between formats and calendar conversion
  • marimo notebook vs jupyter for examples?
  • any thoughts/ideas on what the software paper should include ?

next steps

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