[Buildingdata] Re: Ex-buildings

[Christopher Gutteridge]

which build year? I've been told to make it clear in the data that build 
year isn't definitive as it has legal meanings (tax, safey etc.) and so 
those are the ones I just grabbed from somewhere that are accurate 
enough for a timeline, but not for a legal definition of how many years 
the building's been open (some may be start of building, other end date, 
others official opening etc....)

Not important enough to spend the time on doing properly-- expense for 
staff who aren't in this process.

On 14/12/11 12:26, Jo Walsh wrote:
> On 12/12/2011 15:08, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>> On 12/12/2011 14:57, Nick Gibbins wrote:
>>> What happens when the University builds a new building with the
>>> number 86?
>>>> I've just seen a portacabin building dismantled;
>>>> http://data.southampton.ac.uk/building/86.html is gone!!
> I'm reminded of some barely relevant stories about MIT's "Building 20",
> a temporary building that went up during WWII and stayed up 50+ years.
> http://www.eecs.mit.edu/building/20/
>
> "Its "temporary nature" permitted its occupants to abuse it in ways that
> would not be tolerated in a permanent building. If you wanted to run a
> wire from one lab to another, you didn't ask anybody's permission -- you
> just got out a screwdriver and poked a hole through the wall. "
>
> It was replaced by a 250M monolith with the *appearance* of flexibility.
> http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2004/06/designing_adapt.html
> Which to some was a metaphor for the University administration.
>
> I don't think the Building ID was reused.
>
> Build year data is straightforwardly available here, wonder why it's a
> problem for Soton, perhaps it doesn't comprehensively exist?
>
>

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