Matthew Milner 2024-07-24 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. en This ontology is distributed under an MIT License - https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/ https://www.nanohistory.org Representation of the Nanohistory.Org Data Model 2024-07-24T12:35:48 Major Revision, implementing RDF-Star, and Verbs as Properties, with associated child ontology at http://purl.org/nanohistory/verbs/# nanohistory This model represents the data model employed in the prototype historical research platform Nanohistory.Org 2.0 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 Calendar systems used for dating Calendar Transition Collective Entity Collective Super class for all Nanohistory Data Components 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. Date Super class for all Nanohistory Entities Entity An individual name given to an historical phenomenon or happening - commonly described as an event 'name'. Episode A unique directed graph consisting of an agent, verb, and object, representing an action Event Identifier Identifier Individual Entity Individual Super class for all Nanohistory Named Entities Named Entities An individual named corporate entity, real or fictitious Organization An individual named person, alive or dead; real or fictitious Person An individual named place, real or fictitious. Can be circumscribed using coordinates, or not Place An individual name for a serial publication. Serial Spatial Coordinates and Data Spatial Super class for all Nanohistory Temporal Components 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 Term An individual named work or artifact created by an agent with a specific title; real or fictitious Thing An individual title or office held by a person, such as a King or a Director, etc. personalTitle