Connecting a VisualItem to a place

[Ethan Gruber]

Hi all,

I am working on modeling miscellaneous HMOs into Linked Art, derived from MODS metadata, and my questions revolve around photographs in particular.

Looking at the Linked Art documentation and also some examples on the Yale LUX platform, I am not quite sure how to link subject matter depicted in an image with a general place. Putting the place in the Production node doesn't quite make sense because: is a photograph produced in the place where you click the camera button? Probably not.

In the Yale example at https://lux.collections.yale.edu/view/object/854038c7-484b-41c2-9583-38cd353780d2, a photo shows a ruined temple in Thebes. This temple is famous enough to have its own URI, which would allow you to link the structure to the place it exists. But what if my photo just depicts a generic house? So the VisualItem of my photo "represents_instance_of_type" of a house, but I do also have important metadata about where the house is located, like a particular city or county.

I stumbled upon this: https://linked.art/api/rels/1/workaboutplace/

Is it sufficient to say visual item  "represents_instance_of_type" of a house and is also "about" a place? Rather than trying to say my generic house is IN the place, I just use two different RDF properties?

Thanks,

Ethan

[Robert Sanderson]

I would say that it represents_instance_of_type <aat:house> and it represents <geo:place_where_the_house_is>.  

Otherwise you'd have to create the HMO for the house, classify it as a house, and give it a location. That seems overkill, and if the house has subsequently been destroyed, would make for a bunch of annoying temporal logic to have to deal with as well

R

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Rob Sanderson

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Yale University