Mechanism of temporal comparison of concrete-historical facts

The article continues the series of works devoted to the technology of concrete historical research supporting. The technology is based on the principles of co-creation and crowdsourcing and is designed for a wide range of users which are not professional historians and biographers. The article is devoted to the further development of the technology by integrating the mechanism of temporal comparison of concrete-historical facts. The main directions of facts comparison in concrete-historical research are given. The high significance of the subtask of facts comparison and linking along the time axis in order to determine the sequence of events in the life of the object of research and clarify their dating is established. The approach to automation of this subtask in the context of the technology based on the mechanism for the automated search for contradictions in concrete-historical information is proposed. The possibility of reducing the problem of finding admissible time intervals to the linear programming problem is shown. The use of the Simplex algorithm for implementation of the algorithm of temporal comparison of concrete-historical facts is reasoned.