When It All Began
Wow, it’s a been a while since my last post. During that time we’ve made a lot of progress with our knowledge base, and now I’m gonna tell you a bit more about it. So, as the song goes, let’s start at the very beginning.
WWWest-Online is set in the American Old West, more commonly known as “The Wild West”, so the first thing we had to do when we started work on our knowledge base was to delimit it to that era. The Wild West, we soon found out, was a bit tricky to box in, since its start and end are a bit hazy. What I did find, however, was that as a general rule, the Wild West era is considered to have spanned most the second half of the 19th century. Though several years before and after that time are still considered to be “Wild West”, that was how we decided to delimit it, and that’s why we decided on 1845-1895: we took those years and added a few before and after them, for some surrounding backstory.
