Event

Events in OTS are things that happen at a time and (usually) a place: publications, conferences, deaths, weddings, sermons, condemnations, the day a book finally arrived in the mail. An Event has a date, often a participant or two, and sometimes a place. If a note is about a when-something-happened, it is an Event.

Event notes carry the standard fields plus the things a happening needs: date_start, date_end, era, place (a wikilink to a Place note), and participants (an array of wikilinked Persons). Some Events span a moment; some span decades. Both shapes fit.

The Event subtype used in this corpus is Movement, a slower kind of happening like a school of thought taking shape or a war that runs for years. Most Events here have no subtype because they do not need one. The templated subtype Sermon exists in OTS but is not used here.

The Event notes in this corpus are deliberately mixed in scale. A wedding scheduled for August. A child’s seventh birthday last month. The Crucifixion of Jesus Christ. World War II. The analytic revival of philosophy of religion across roughly forty years. The schema does not separate the close from the far or the personal from the historical, and that is the point. Events arrive in your life on their own terms; the vault should not pre-sort them by importance.

This page is itself an Event note. Every other Event has type: [[Event]]. The backlinks panel on the right is the index.