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Photographer Reference Data Model

Author: the name of the author

Version: current version

Introduction

The fc:photographer semantic annotation refers to the photographers which are shared by the Photo Archives and are involved in the production of photographs, photographic prints or digital photographs that are part of the Artresearch project and is the domain used for the semantic modeling described below.

Relationships

Fundamental Relationships

Fundamental relationships were created for the implementation of the Contextual Search and filtering functionality. Their extensive use was deemed necessary in order to improve the efficiency of the platform.

Name Relationship Range Description
born in fr:Photographer_has_Date_of_Birth xsd:date Refers to the date when the documented Photographer was born.
died in fr:Photographer_has_Date_of_Death xsd:date Refers to the date when the documented Photographer died.
born at place fr:Photographer_has_Place_of_Birth fc:place Refers to the place where the documented Photographer was born.
died at place fr:Photographer_has_Place_of_Death fc:place Refers to the place where the documented Photographer died.
photographed fr:Photographer_photographed_Work fc:work Refers to the works which the documented Photographer depicted.
created fr:Photographer_created_Photo fc:photo Refers to the photos which the documented Photographer created.
used fr:Photographer_used_Technique fc:technique Refers to the technique that the documented Photographer used.
has gender fr:Photographer_has_Gender fc:gender Refers to the gender of the documented Photographer.
has nationality fr:Photographer_has_Nationality fc:nationality Refers to the nationality of the documented Photographer.

Custom Relationships

Custom relationships have been used

Name Paths Description
has provider custom:has_provider Referes to the Photo Archive that provided the information of the referenced entity
has type custom:has_type Referes to the custom type of refrerenced entity

Model Section Description

The fields used to describe a photographer can be functionally grouped according to higher level units in order to allow for an easier approach to the entry and navigation of the data by information category. The information categories identified have been enumerated in the following table.

# Name Description
1 Person Info This information category gathers together descriptor used for assigning names,types to a photographer, as well as descriptors relevant to the tracking of the birth and death of a photographer

Person Info

This information category gathers together descriptors used for assigning names,types to a photographer, as well as descriptors relevant to the tracking of the birth and death of a photographer

Name Description Path
Identifier This field is used to indicate an identifier attributed to the documented photographer. crm:P1 → crm:E42 → rdfs:label
Name This field is used to record the main name attributed to the documented photographer. crm:P1 → crm:E41 → rdfs:label
Name Type This field is used to indicate a type of a specific part of the name attributed to the documented photographer. crm:P1 → crm:E41 → crm:P2_has_type → crm:E55_Type
Place of Birth This field is used to indicate the place of birth of the documented photographer. fr:Person_has_Place_of_Birth
Place of Death This field is used to indicate the place of death of the documented photographer. fr:Person_has_Place_of_Death
Active This field is used to indicate the period within the documented photographer was active. crm:P14i → crm:F51_Pursuit → crm:P4 → crm:E52 → crm:P82
Nationality This field is used to record the association of the documented photographer to a national body, usually indicating citizenship. fr:Person_has_Nationality → fc:Person
Gender This field is used to record the gender ascribed of the documented photographer. fr:Person_has_Gender → xsd:string
Date of Birth This field is used to record the date for the birth of the documented photographer. fr:Person_has_Date_of_Birth|fr:Artist_has_Date_of_Birth → xsd:date
Date of Death This field is used to record the date for the death of the documented photographer. fr:Person_has_Date_of_Death|fr:Artist_has_Date_of_Death → xsd:date