Place Record Properties

Class: Location

Name (required)

• Term: otgevents:title

• Equivalent Property: dcterms:title

• Data Type: Text

• Description: A name given to the place

• Usage:

• Input: Single

Alternate Name

• Term: otgevents:alternateName

• Equivalent Property: schema:alternateName

• Data Type: Text

• Description: An alias for the record.

• Usage: Can include any other variant form of name that the place is known by.

• Input: Multiple

Latitude

• Term: otgevents:latitude

• Equivalent Property: schema:latitude

• Data Type: Text

• Description: The latitude given to a location.

• Usage: Written as a decimal fraction using positive and negative to indicate north or south ("23.43", not "23° 26′").

• Input: Single

Longitude

• Term: otgevents:longitude

• Equivalent Property: schema:longitude

• Data Type: Text

• Description: The longitude given to a location.

• Usage: Written as a decimal fraction using negative and positive to indicate west or east ("−91" rather than "91°W").

• Input: Single

City

• Term: otgevents:city

• Equivalent Property: schema:addressLocality

• Data Type: Text or URI

• Description: The name of the city, town, or village where the place being described is located

• Usage:

• Input: Single

State or Province

• Term: otgevents:state

• Equivalent Property:

• Data Type: Text or URI

• Description: The name of the state or province where the place being described is located.

• Usage:

• Input: Single

County or Parish

• Term: otgevents:county-parish

• Equivalent Property:

• Data Type: Text or URI

• Description: The name of the county or parish where the place being described is located.

• Usage:

• Input: Single

Country

• Term: otgevents:country

• Equivalent Property: schema:addressCountry

• Data Type: Text or URI

• Description: The verbatim name of the nation where the place being described is located

• Usage: Use the modern name. Use an annotation with the Same As property to indicate the name that is contemporaneous with the events being described, not the modern name.

• Input: Single

Description (required)

• Term: otgevents:description

• Equivalent Property: dcterms:description

• Data Type: Text

• Description: Narrative description and/or transcription of the entity.

• Usage:

• Input: Multiple

Keywords

• Term: otgevents:keywords

• Equivalent property: schema:keywords

• Data type: Text

• Description: Keywords to further specify the entity being described.

• Usages: Use one input for each word, rather than a comma-separated string.

• Input: Multiple

Identifier

• Term: otgevents:identifier

• Equivalent Property: dcterms:identifier

• Data Type: Text

• Description: An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context.

• Usage: Developed internally by institutions to ease searching and location of places.

• Input: Multiple

Place Type (required)

• Term: otgevents:placeType

• Equivalent Property: Enslaved Place Type

• Data Type: Place Type Controlled Vocabulary (Enslaved)

• Description: A generic category or class of location.

• Usage:

• Input: Multiple

Organization

• Term: otgevents:organization

• Data type: Omeka S Item or Text or URI

• Description: An organization related to the resource.

• Usage: Omeka S Item or URI are preferred data types.

• Input: Multiple

Region

• Term: otgevents:region

• Equivalent Property: schema:addressRegion

• Data Type: Text or URI

• Description: Identifies a geographic area that encompasses the place

• Usage:

• Input: Multiple

Relation

• Term :otgevents:relation

• Equivalent property: dcterms:relation

• Data type: Omeka S Item or URI

• Description: A related resource

• Usage:

• Input: Multiple

Same As

• Term: otgevents:sameAs

• Equivalent Property: schema:sameAs

• Data Type: URI

• Description: URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Wikidata entry, or official website.

• Usage:

• Input: Multiple

Is Part Of

• Term: otgevents:isPartOf

• Equivalent Property: dcterms:isPartOf

• Data Type: Omeka S Item or URI

• Description: A related resource in which the described resource is physically or logically included.

• Usage:

• Input: Multiple

Has Part

• Term: otgevents:hasPart

• Equivalent Property: dcterms:hasPart

• Data Type: Omeka S Item or URI

• Description: A related resource that is included either physically or logically in the described resource.

• Usage:

• Input: Multiple

Bibliographic Citation

• Term: otgevents:bibliographicCitation

• Data type: Omeka S Item or URI or Text

• Description: A bibliographic reference for the resource

• Usage: Use for references to external secondary sources that provide additional information about the entity. Link to a digitized version if available. If not, input a bibliography citation.

• Input: Multiple