Our approach to people was focused on life events, roles, and relations to other people and resources. Using Plucky’s entity type allowed us to discriminate people from other types of entities by using the is_entity_type value “Person”. For us, it was critical to allow our model to represent various names referring to one person, given Elizabeth Jane Cochran choice of Nellie Bly as a name for publications. Specifically, ISAAR 5.1 allowed us to include both authorized and other versions of names for a single person. Additionally, CDWA inspired us to use explicitly defined name types, which allowed us to include a new predicate for a “preferred name”. This was specifically helpful to declare the way scholars have referred to our main person. Our utilization of subclasses (as explained in Theoretical Model) was crucial for including complex details. For example, the subclass predicate ‘role_duration’ of the class predicate ‘has_life_role’ allowed us to include greater detail regarding a variety of roles a person might have had. The same logic holds for the utilization of subclasses for the detailed description of events, relationships to resources, and relationships to other persons or corporate bodies. Specifically, the decision to use an event-centric approach for birth, death, crucial meetings, etc., was based on our conceptualization of a life as defined by vital moments. For example, birth became the value of an event with specific details regarding its place and date. In this way, we provided a complete characterization of the person.
| Question | Subject | Predicate | subclass | Predicate is based on | eac-cpf or CDWALITE equivalent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What type of entity? | plucky:entity | plucky:is_entity_type | EAC-CPF:entity | ||
| What is the authority control version of the name? | plucky:entity | plucky:has_authorized_name | ISAAR: 5.1.2 Authorized form of name | EAC-CPF:<nameEntry> | |
| What are other versions of the name? | plucky:entity | plucky:has_other_name | ISAAR: 5.1.5 Other forms of name | EAC-CPF:<nameEntryParallel> | |
| What is the preferred name? | plucky:entity | plucky:has_preferred_name | CDWA:28.2.2 [Person/Corporate Body Name; Name Type] | CDWALITE:nameCreator | |
| What is their nationality? | plucky:entity | plucky:has_citizenship | CDWA:28.8 Person Nationality/Culture/Race | CDWALITE:nationalityCreator | |
| What is their ethnicity? | plucky:entity | plucky:has_ethnicity | CDWA:28.8 Person Nationality/Culture/Race | CDWALITE:nationalityCreator | |
| What is their biographical history? | plucky:entity | plucky:bio_history | EAC-CPF:biogHist | ||
| What is their gender? | plucky:entity | plucky:has_gender | CDWA:28.9 Gender | CDWALITE:genderCreator | |
| What were their life roles? | plucky:entity | plucky:has_life_role | |||
| -- What was the role? | plucky:role | ISAAR: 5.2.5 Functions, occupations and activities | EAC-CPF:<function> | ||
| --- Duration of role? | plucky:role_duration | EAC-CPF: <daterange> | |||
| What happened in the person's life? | plucky:entity | plucky:has_life_event | EAD:<event> | ||
| --- What? | plucky:event_type | EAD:<eventtype> | |||
| --- Where? | plucky:event_place | EAD:<place> | |||
| --- When? | plucky:event_date | EAD:<eventdatetime> | |||
| What is their relation with a resource? | plucky:entity | plucky:has_resource_relation | |||
| --- What is the type of relation with the resource? | plucky:relation_type | EAC-CPF: resourceRelationType | |||
| --- What is the resource related? | plucky:relation_resource | DCTERMS:relation | |||
| --- What does that relation mean? | plucky:relation_meaning | DC:description | |||
| --- When did this relation start? | plucky:relation_start | DC:date | |||
| What is their relation with a person or corporate body? | plucky:entity | plucky:has_agent_relation | |||
| --- What is the type of relation with the agent? | plucky:relation_type | ISAAR: [5.3.2 Category of relationship] | EAC-CPF:<cpfRelation cpfRelationType="[value]"> | ||
| --- What is the person/corporate body related? | plucky:relation_agent | ISAAR: [5.3.1 Name/Identifier of the related corporate body, person or family] | EAC-CPF:<cpfRelation> | ||
| --- What does that relation mean? | plucky:relation_meaning | ISAAR: [5.3.3 Description of relationship] | EAC-CPF:<relationEntry> | ||
| --- When did this relation start? | plucky:relation_start | ISAAR: [5.3.4 Dates of the relationship] | EAC-CPF:<dateRange> | ||
| Which resources refer to the same person? | plucky:entity | plucky:sameAs | OWL:sameAs | ||
| Which resource has the person as primary topic? | plucky:entity | plucky:isPrimaryTopicOf | FOAF:isPrimaryTopicOf |