PeriodO

[zoometh]

What to do with:

• locator: https://gist.github.com/rybesh/9f64c127ad8eeb69619896f22064bb0e#file-example-dataset-json-L14
• spatialCoverageDescription : https://gist.github.com/rybesh/9f64c127ad8eeb69619896f22064bb0e#file-example-dataset-json-L26
• label: https://gist.github.com/rybesh/9f64c127ad8eeb69619896f22064bb0e#file-example-dataset-json-L38
• note and editorialNote: https://gist.github.com/rybesh/9f64c127ad8eeb69619896f22064bb0e#file-example-dataset-json-L47-L48
• source - locator: https://gist.github.com/rybesh/9f64c127ad8eeb69619896f22064bb0e#file-example-dataset-json-L61
• editorialNote :https://gist.github.com/rybesh/9f64c127ad8eeb69619896f22064bb0e#file-example-dataset-json-L63

Is is better to point to a DOI rather than the DB url?:

• url: https://gist.github.com/rybesh/9f64c127ad8eeb69619896f22064bb0e#file-example-dataset-json-L54

What is the wikidata id of geographical regions such as:

• Levant/Mesopotamia/Arabia:

  cultural-heritage/periodo-projects/exports/eamena_palaeolithic_levant_mesopotamia_arabia.json

  Line 28 in 05fdec5

  "label": "Levant/Mesopotamia/Arabia"

[yourvick]

• locator is just for page/figure numbers on a reference, so we can leave this blank if we are referencing the database
• spatialCoverageDescription and label need rejigging - for example spatialCoverageDescription will be Levant/Mesopotamia/Arabia while label and id within spatialCoverage will have each individual country in the wikidata_period.tsv list so Lebanon, Syria, Jordan etc etc this means there will be multiple spatialCoverage records (usually) with therefore multiple label and id subrecords
• I don't think, if we have don't have anything to say, that we need to use note and editorialNote, both are used for lots of different things in the PeriodO canon dataset, or often, not at all
• I think the DB website link is fine for url

[yourvick]

Like so - here column one is the spatialCoverageDescription while column 3 and 4 will be label and id subrecords respectively.

[zoometh]

• I changed the locator and editorialNote adding EAMENA's UUID of the period: https://github.com/achp-project/cultural-heritage/blob/main/periodo-projects/exports/eamena_palaeolithic_levant_mesopotamia_arabia.json#L59-L61
• I removed the wikidata entity when the region is composite:

  cultural-heritage/periodo-projects/exports/eamena_palaeolithic_levant_mesopotamia_arabia.json

  Line 27 in 6d816b1

  "id": "",

  
  What do you think?

[yourvick]

I think it would be a real shame to lose the spatial information for all those periods - as around half of periods would be composite? Better to find a way of adding multiple entries to the json I reckon?

[yourvick]

What if we edited the json template to have the maximum number of nested spatialcoverages etc possible label1, id1, label2, id1 etc etc and then just regexed the final json file to remove the numbers and any blank spatialCoverage records?

[zoometh]

Yes. For example: Mesopotamia here with this spatial extent:

cultural-heritage/periodo-projects/temp.json

Lines 93 to 110 in 1aeb296

	"spatialCoverage": [
	{
	"id": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q794",
	"label": "Iran"
	},
	{
	"id": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q796",
	"label": "Iraq"
	},
	{
	"id": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q858",
	"label": "Syria"
	},
	{
	"id": "http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q43",
	"label": "Turkey"
	}
	],

[zoometh]

I have noticed, and corrected these errors in the EAMENA period labels. To be compliant with EAMENA overall layout, cultures (eg. Ghaznavid, Timurid, Mamluk, etc.) should not be in parenthesis. Only the geographical region has to be in parenthesis. I've changed the parenthesis to brackets for:

• Dynastic Egypt renamed Dynastic Egypt (Egypt)
• Islamic, Middle (Ghaznavid/Seljuq/Khwarazmshah) (Iran) renamed Islamic, Middle [Ghaznavid/Seljuq/Khwarazmshah] (Iran)
• Islamic, Late (Timurid/Safavid/Qajar) (Iran) renamed Islamic, Late [Timurid/Safavid/Qajar]
• Islamic, Early (Tahirid/Saffarid/Samanid/Buyids) (Iran) renamed Islamic, Early [Tahirid/Saffarid/Samanid/Buyids] (Iran)
• Islamic, Middle (Mongol/Ilkhanid/Muzaffarid/Jalayrid) renamed ...
• Islamic, Early (Ummayad/Abbasid) ...
• Islamic, Late (Mamluk/Rasulid) (Levant/Arabia) ...
• Islamic, Late (Ottoman) (Levant/Arabia)
• Islamic, Middle (Fatimid/Ayyubid/Crusader) (Levant/Arabia)
• Islamic, Early (Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid) (Levant/Arabia)
• Islamic, Early (Umayyad/Abbasid) (North Africa)
• Islamic, Middle (Fatimid/Zirid/Hammadid/Almoravid/Almohad) (North Africa)
• Islamic, Late (Ottoman/Saadi/Wattasid/Alaouite/Colonial) (North Africa)
• Islamic, Late (Ayyubid/Hafsid/Marinid/Zayyanid/Mamluk) (North Africa)
• Islamic, Late (Ottoman) (Iraq)
• Islamic, Early (Early Caliphate/Umayyad)
• Islamic, Middle (Abbasid)
• Islamic, Late (Post-Abbasid)

[zoometh]

In the same manner, these labels need to be changes in rdm-bu-period.check.xlsx. The results is:

• Islamic, Early [Umayyad/Abbasid/Fatimid] (Levant/Arabia)
• Islamic, Middle [Fatimid/Ayyubid] (Levant/Arabia)
• Islamic, Late [Mamluk/Rasulid] (Levant/Arabia)
• Islamic, Late [Ottoman] (Levant/Arabia)
• Islamic, Early [Early Caliphate/Umayyad] (Iraq)
• Islamic, Middle [Abbasid] (Iraq)
• Islamic, Late [Post-Abbasid] (Iraq)
• Islamic, Late [Ottoman) (Iraq)
• Islamic, Early [Ummayad/Abbasid] (Iran)
• Islamic, Early [Tahirid/Saffarid/Samanid/Buyids] (Iran)
• Islamic, Middle [Ghaznavid/Seljuq/Khwarazmshah] (Iran)
• Islamic, Middle [Mongol/Ilkhanid/Muzaffarid/Jalayrid] (Iran)
• Islamic, Late [Timurid/Safavid/Qajar] (Iran)
• Islamic, Early [Umayyad/Abbasid] (North Africa)
• Islamic, Middle [Fatimid/Zirid/Hammadid/Almoravid/Almohad] (North Africa)
• Islamic, Late [Ayyubid/Hafsid/Marinid/Zayyanid/Mamluk] (North Africa)
• Islamic, Late [Ottoman/Saadi/Wattasid/Alaouite/Colonial] (North Africa)
• ...