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A physical entity: a book (manuscript, incunabula, fragment, printed copy…)
Equivalent Entity:
| Name | Type | Description | Equivalent Property | Controlled Vocabulary | ||
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| current_shelfmark | text | Shelf mark by which the document can be requested or, in the case of unavailable archives, by which it is known. If the institution has not provided a shelf mark, leave blank. | ||||
| contents_of_record_without_shelfmark | text | A distinguishing note about a record without a shelfmark, such as its contents. | ||||
| collection | text | A single collection of materials with some unifying characteristic, housed in an archive. Query Q9388534 | ||||
| location | foreign key | Location of the object, structure or event, i.e. the Mona Lisa\'s location is the Louvre Museum. Property P276 | ||||
| location_known | vocabulary | The object\'s current physical location is known. If the location is not known, describe what is known in the free-text field. |
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| location_notes | text | If the current physical location is unknown, describe what is known about the object\'s location. | ||||
| invented_label | text | If this record is a hypothetical document, a useful label by which to recognize and refer to the document. | ||||
| Hypothesis | ||||||
| is_hypothetical | vocabulary | Whether the entity is attested (True) in a hypothesis or whether it is received as fact that it exists or existed (False). |
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| claim_freetext | text | [Temporary] Brief note about the hypothesis that attests to this record\'s existence. This information is meant to be a temporary note that will eventually be entered into a Hypothesis entity, which should be linked back to this record. | ||||
| Description | ||||||
| collection_of_fragments | vocabulary | Whether or not the document is a collection of fragments, compiled at a date significantly later than when the manuscript components were themselves created, i.e. a 19th-century collection of 12th- and 13th-century fragments. |
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| old_shelfmark | text | Outmoded shelf marks by which the archival object used to be known and referenced. | ||||
| digitization | foreign key | A digitization of the archival object, preferably in its entirety. | ||||
| digitization_freetext | text | Placeholder Reference to a digitization that hasn\'t yet been added to the database, as a means of temporarily storing information that will eventually be linked via an entity to this record. | ||||
| Production | ||||||
| date_of_creation | date | Time when the entity begins to exist. | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P571 | |||
| date_freetext | text | Brief, human-readable description of the date given to this record. | ||||
| date_of_creation_source | text | Notes about the source of the creation date information, including a human-readable summary or transcription of the time range. Can include a brief bibliographic citation. | ||||
| place_of_creation | foreign key | Place where the entity was conceived or made. | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1071 | |||
| place_of_creation_freetext | text | Placeholder notes about the entity\'s place of creation, to eventually be converted into a relation to a Place entity. | ||||
| place_of_creation_source | text | Notes along with bibliographic citation about the source of the creation place information. | ||||
| reference_notes | ||||||
| described_by_source | foreign key | Work where the item is described. Property P1343 \nDescribed in source / written about in / described by encyclopedia / described by reference work | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1343 | |||
| described_at_URL | text | Described at webpage. Property P973 | ||||
| online_catalogue_URL | text | URL of the page in a library or archive\'s digital catalogue that serves as the reference for the document. Property P8768 | ||||
| ARK | text | Archival Resource Key for the item or notice in the archival institution\'s catalogue / system. Property P8091 | ||||
| reference_notes | text | Brief notes about a reference and/or citation that should eventually be added to the database and linked to this record. | ||||
| Review | ||||||
| review_status | vocabulary | Status of record\'s preparation for public view. |
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| review_note | text | Information to help with review of this entity. | ||||