Place Reference Data Model
Author: the name of the author
Version: current version
Introduction
The fc:place semantic annotation refers to the places which are related to the works, institutions and persons shared by the Photo Archives. In this section will be presented all the relationships which are connected to the places.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of Work | fr:Place_of_Work | fc:work | Refers to the work which is related to the documented place. |
| Place depicted by | fr:Place_depicted_by | fc:photo | Refers to the photo that depicts the documented place. |
| Place of Artist | fr:Place_of_Artist | fc:artist | Refers to the relationship between an artist and the documented place. |
| Place was birthplace of Artist | fr:Place_was_birthplace_of_Artist | fc:artist | Refers to the artist who was born at the the documented place. |
| Place was worklocation of Artist | fr:Place_was_worklocation_of_Artist | fc:artist | Refers to that the documented place was a worklocation of the Artist. |
| Place was deathplace of Artist | fr:Place_was_deathplace_of_Artist | fc:artist | Refers to the artist who died at the the documented place. |
| Place of Institution | fr:Place_of_Institution | fc:institution | Refers to the institution which is located at the documented place. |
| Place was birthplace of Photographer | fr:Place_was_birthplace_of_Photographer | fc:photographer | Refers to the photographer who was born at the the documented place. |
| Place was deathplace of Photographer | fr:Place_was_deathplace_of_Photographer | fc:photographer | Refers to the photographer who died at the the documented place. |
GeoNames Relationships
GeoNames relationships were used in order to specify the location of the place
| Name | Relationship | Range | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| latitude | geo:lat | xsd:string | Refers to the latitude of the documented place. |
| longitude | geo:long | xsd:string | Refers to the longitude of the documented place. |
The GeoNames Ontology was used for the hierarchy of geoname places.
CIDOC-CRM Relationships
| Name | Paths |
|---|---|
| identifier | crm:P1 → crm:E42 → rdfs:label |
| type | crm:P2 → crm:E55 |
Model Section Description
A combination of CIDOC-CRM ontology, fundamental categories and relationships was used in order to achieve the most efficient way for the retrieval of the semantic data. The fields used to describe a place can be functionally grouped according to higher level units in order to allow for an easier approach to the navigation of the data by information category. The information categories identified have been enumerated in the following table.
| # | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Place Info | This information category gathers together descriptos used for assigning names,types to a place, both at present and historically. |
| 2 | External Info | This information category is used to show on map the documented place and the tree of places starting from the higher in the hiererchy (for example the country) and moving to the documented place(for example the city). |
Place Info
| Name | Description | Path |
|---|---|---|
| Title | This field is used to indicate the title which are attributed to the documented place. | crm:P1 → E41 [1] → rdfs:label |
| Title Type | - | crm:P1 → E41 [1] → crm:P2 →titles (general, names) |
| Name | This field is used to indicate the name which are attributed to the documented place. | rdfs:label |
| Population | This field is used to indicate the population of the documented place. | geo:population |
External Info
This information category is used to
- show the exact location of a place on the map
- show a tree of other documented Places in which the current places is falling in.
based on the geonames relationships to create the full hierarchy.