18341922

18341922 is a concatenated eight-digit numeric string that can function as a shorthand notation in some information systems, most commonly interpreted as a birth year of 1834 and a death year of 1922. In practice, its meaning is context-dependent; without separators or accompanying metadata, the string can denote a life span, a catalog key, or a composite identifier in a dataset.

In genealogical and archival contexts, such strings may be used to compactly store a person’s birth and death years in a single field. When processed by parsing rules, 18341922 is typically split into 1834 and 1922. In digital archives and cataloging systems, the same sequence can appear as part of a filename, accession number, or metadata tag, where the digits function as part of an identifier rather than a date.

Ambiguities can arise because the absence of delimiters makes it easy to misinterpret the data. Different conventions may apply in different databases, and similar strings could encode alternative meanings in other contexts. Data quality and consistency depend on clear documentation and metadata describing how the string should be interpreted and parsed.

Computational handling of such strings requires robust parsing logic and error-checking. If used as a date field, systems should implement fallbacks for ambiguous or malformed inputs and, when possible, rely on explicit metadata to disambiguate the intended meaning.

See also: year notation, date formats, data encoding in archives.