Nanohistory.Org employs a distinct approach to event modeling, and the documentation of historical interactions as statements or assertions drawn from a range of documentary evidence and cultural heritage artifacts. Its primary purpose is to provide scholars working in archives and other repositories means of abstracting content history-as-data.
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Representation of the Nanohistory.Org Data Model
Major Revision, implementing RDF-Star, and Verbs as Properties, with associated child ontology at http://purl.org/nanohistory/verbs/#
This model represents the data model employed in the prototype historical research platform Nanohistory.Org
Upper-level Sub-Property for Events asserting something did occur
Affirmative Verb
Upper-level Core Sub-Property for Events asserting something did not occur
Negative Verb
Upper-level Core Sub-Property for Events asserting an indirect or prepositional secondary occurence, state, or relationship
Preposition
Upper-level Core Sub-Property for Events asserting a relational state between entities
Relationship
Core Property for Events
Verb
Calendar commenced during a Calendar Transition
New Calendar
Calendar retired during a Calendar Transition
Old Calendar
Place for Calendar Transition
Calendar Transition Place
Calendar for date
Date Calendar
Source for Date
Date Source
End Date for an entity
End Date
Identifier for an entity
Identified by
Spatial Coordinates and Data
Space
Start Date for an entity
Start Date
The ID of member of a Collective Entity
The Entity Type of the Collective Entity
Coordinate geometry string representing points, polygons, and multipolygons following GeoJSON models. Delimited by ',', ';', and '|' respectively in order to allow for use of JSON-LD.
Coordinate Data
Date as YYYY-MM-DD, YYYY-MM, or YYYY
Formatted Date
Highest Date as Julian Day
Highest Julian Date
Date as text string
Date Information
Lowest Date as Julian Day
Lowest Julian Date
A fore or first name of a person
Forename
Unique Nanohistory identifier
Nanohistory Identifier
Value of Identifier
Identifier Value
Type of Identifier
Identifier Type
Language used in a Nanohistory component, using ISO639-2
Language
A middle names of a person
Middle Names
A name for a named entity
Name
A sur- or family name of a person.
Surname
A title for a thing.
Thing Title
The normative form for a personal title, or honorific.
Personal Title
A type of Nanohistory Component
Nanohistory Type
An alternative spelling or variant of the name of a named entity
Variant Name
Calendar systems used for dating. Classed as a Temporal Component because Calendars have starts and stops.
Calendar systems used for dating
Collective Entity
Super class for all Nanohistory Data
A date, either as a start or end date, or merely a point. Conceptualized as a temporal referent. Works in concert with Spatial for spatio-temporal location and extension of events.
Super class for all Nanohistory Entities
An individual name given to an historical phenomenon or happening - commonly described as an event 'name'.
A unique directed graph consisting of an agent, verb, and object, representing an action
Identifier
Individual Entity
Super class for all Nanohistory Named Entities
An individual named corporate entity, real or fictitious
An individual named person, alive or dead; real or fictitious
An individual named place, real or fictitious. Can be circumscribed using coordinates, or not
An individual name for a serial publication.
Super class for all Nanohistory Temporal Components
A literal string representing a common noun or abstract concept (collective or individual); or an individual name for an abstract entity such as an historical episode, serial publication, referential textual structure, or legal / philosophical premise
An individual named work or artifact created by an agent with a specific title; real or fictitious
An individual title or office held by a person, such as a King or a Director, etc.