Hi Joshan,
If we talk about the physical attributes of an inscription, such as the
technique by which it
was made, we talk about a Physical Feature, more specifically, the
object "P56 <#_P56_bears_feature_%28is%20found%20on%29:> bears feature
(is found on): E25 <#_E25_Man-Made_Feature> Man-Made Feature" .
The feature in turn P65_shows_visual_item . E34 Inscription.
The position on the object could be modelled as you suggest by
P59_has_section : E53 Place. P53F is former or current location of : E25
<#_E25_Man-Made_Feature> Man-Made Feature . However, I would regard
explicit modelling of the Place as an overkill: Hardly will there be a query
across objects such as "find all objects which have an inscription in
the upper left corner". Since it is currently a text field,
I'd leave it as a note at the E25.
Best,
Martin
On 28/2/2012 3:49 ??, Joshan Mahmud wrote:
Hi Martin
Hope you are well. I have a question for you regarding describing the
position of an inscription on an object:
In our database, for every inscription we have a field named
'position' which describes where on the object it is. This is a free
text field and not controlled.
My intention was to create RDF as follows:
<obj>
a
crm:E22_Man-Made_Object
<obj> crm:P65_shows_visual_item
<obj/inscription/1>
<obj/inscription/1> a
crm:E34_Inscription
<obj> crm:P59_has_section
<obj/section/1>
<obj/section/1> a
crm:E53_Place
<obj/section/1> rdfs:label
"[inscription position free text]"
What I would now like to do is to have a predicate which connects
<obj/inscription/1> and <obj/section/1> to define that the inscription
is located at that place on the object but no such predicate exists.
This seems to be an issue as E34_Inscription is a conceptual object
and all predicates which relate to E53_Place are from physical
objects. But since inscription has some physical attributes I cannot
see how this can be modelled in the CRM.
What would you suggest be the way in which this should be modelled?
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks
Joshan
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