Place

Author: Denitsa Nenova, George Bruseker

Version: 1.0

The Place model is intended to enable the representation and sharing of data relevant to geographic places used to identify the locations of items and events over time. Typical instances of Place are cities, states and countries, but also buildings, rooms, shelves, etc. The Place model is intended solely for the documentation of real, geometrically definable Places. In the context of the CSDM, it is used primarily as a reference model.

	Name	URI
Root Ontology Node	E53 Place	https://cidoc-crm.org/Entity/E53-Place/version-7.1.1
Type Differentiator	N/A	N/A

Model Sections Description

Information Category	Information Collections	Description
Names and Classifications	Names/Alternative Names/Identifiers/Type	The researcher can document various names and classification regarding the Place.
Parthood	Membership	The researcher can document the membership of the Place.
Documentation	Digital Object	The researcher can document citations relative to the Place, link to images of the place and document external URIs of documentation for the same Place.

Place Names and Classifications

The attribution of names and types to a Place, as with other entities, is a basic human activity. A chief factor in disambiguating Places lies in understanding the various names and identifiers that have been given to them at different moments in their individual histories. Historical Places often receive different names according to the groups naming it, as well as receiving different kinds of names according to contexts and during different historical moments. Likewise, additional classifiers of a Place, such as how it is has been formally classified, give important distinguishing characteristics. Because the type of a Place is a socially related factor, dependent on how the Place is appropriated/used in human interaction, the type of a place may change over time. In the model we add the possibility for describing this shift.

Filed ID	Name	Description	Data Type	CRM Path
LAF.6	Place Name	This field is used to record the string value of the name attributed to the documented Place.	String	->p1->E33_E41[4_1]->p190->rdf:literal
LAF.11	Place Type	This field is used to record the formal type of the documented Place.	Concept	->p2->E55[11_1]
LAF.10	Place ID	This field is used to record an identifier attributed to the documented Place.	String	->p1->E42[8_1]->p190->rdf:literal
LAF.9	ID Type	This field is used to record the type of the identifier attributed to the documented Place.	Concept	->p1->E42[8_1]->p2->E55[9_1]

- Place Names and Classifications Ontology Graph

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- Place Names and Classifications RDF

@prefix crm: <http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/> .

<https://pma.us/models/place/E53> a crm:E53_Place ;
    crm:P1_is_identified_by <https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/4_1>,
        <https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/8_1> ;
    crm:P2_has_type <https://linked.art/example/type/11_1> .

<https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/4_1> a crm:E33_E41_Linguistic_Appellation ;
    crm:P190_has_symbolic_content "Name_string_value" .

<https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/8_1> a crm:E42_Identifier ;
    crm:P190_has_symbolic_content "Identifier_value_content" ;
    crm:P2_has_type <https://linked.art/example/identifier/9_1> .

<https://linked.art/example/identifier/9_1> a crm:E55_Type .

<https://linked.art/example/type/11_1> a crm:E55_Type .

- Place Names and Classifications JSON-LD

{
  "@context": "https://linked.art/ns/v1/linked-art.json",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "content": "Name_string_value",
      "id": "https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/4_1",
      "type": "Name"
    },
    {
      "classified_as": [
        "https://linked.art/example/identifier/9_1"
      ],
      "content": "Identifier_value_content",
      "id": "https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/8_1",
      "type": "Identifier"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://linked.art/example/identifier/9_1",
      "type": "Type"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://linked.art/example/type/11_1",
      "type": "Type"
    },
    {
      "classified_as": [
        "https://linked.art/example/type/11_1"
      ],
      "id": "https://pma.us/models/place/E53",
      "identified_by": [
        "https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/8_1",
        "https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/4_1"
      ],
      "type": "Place"
    }
  ]
}

Place Parthood

The mereo-topological breakdown of Places is crucial to understanding the relative relations between Places. This information category gathers together the basic descriptors typically deployed to this end. In the study and documentation of a Place, this is a highly researched topic with extremely fine grained analysis available. In this base model, we represent the relation of one Place falling within another. This representation allows both for documentation of contemporaneous containment relations but also the expression of a Place falling within another Place or containing one at a particular historical time.

Filed ID	Name	Description	Data Type	CRM Path
LAF.29	Parent Location	This field is used to record the broader Place to which the documented Place belongs as part.	Reference Model [Place]	->p89->E53[29_1]

- Place Parthood Ontology Graph

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- Place Parthood RDF

@prefix crm: <http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/> .

<https://pma.us/models/place/E53> a crm:E53_Place ;
    crm:P89_falls_within <https://linked.art/example/place/29_1> .

<https://linked.art/example/place/29_1> a crm:E53_Place .

- Place Parthood JSON-LD

{
  "@context": "https://linked.art/ns/v1/linked-art.json",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "id": "https://linked.art/example/place/29_1",
      "type": "Place"
    },
    {
      "crm:P89_falls_within": {
        "id": "https://linked.art/example/place/29_1"
      },
      "id": "https://pma.us/models/place/E53",
      "type": "Place"
    }
  ]
}

Place Documentation

This information category unites referential information about the documented Place, providing contextual data about it.

Filed ID	Name	Description	Data Type	CRM Path
PMAF.83	Digital Object	This field is used to link to an instance of digital resource which serves as a digital reference document for the documented Place.	Reference Model [Digital Object]	->P02i->PC67[A83_1]->P01->D1[A83_2]
PMAF.84	Digital Object Type	This field is used to link to a type record which indicates the kind of reference supported by the digital resource that serves as a reference for the documented Place.	Concept	->P02i->PC67[A83_1]->P67.1->E55[A84_1]

- Place Documentation Ontology Graph

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- Place Documentation RDF

@prefix crm: <http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/> .

<https://pma.us/models/place/E53> a crm:E53_Place ;
    crm:P02i_is_range_of <https://linked.art/example/reified_property/A83_1> .

<https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/A83_2> a crm:D1_Digital_Object .

<https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/A84_1> a crm:E55_Type .

<https://linked.art/example/reified_property/A83_1> a crm:PC67_refers_to ;
    crm:P01_has_domain <https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/A83_2> ;
    crm:P67.1_has_type <https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/A84_1> .

- Place Documentation JSON-LD

{
  "@context": "https://linked.art/ns/v1/linked-art.json",
  "@graph": [
    {
      "id": "https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/A84_1",
      "type": "Type"
    },
    {
      "crm:P02i_is_range_of": {
        "id": "https://linked.art/example/reified_property/A83_1"
      },
      "id": "https://pma.us/models/place/E53",
      "type": "Place"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/A83_2",
      "type": "crm:D1_Digital_Object"
    },
    {
      "crm:P01_has_domain": {
        "id": "https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/A83_2"
      },
      "crm:P67.1_has_type": {
        "id": "https://linked.art/example/conceptual_object/A84_1"
      },
      "id": "https://linked.art/example/reified_property/A83_1",
      "type": "crm:PC67_refers_to"
    }
  ]
}