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--- resources:cerl_thesaurus:editing:newinterface [2020/01/27 09:46] – [3.6 Other Related Entities (Persons, Printers, Corporate Bodies)] jahnke
+++ resources:cerl_thesaurus:editing:newinterface [2020/01/27 12:08] – [3.9 Geographic Coordinates] jahnke
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 Sources that apply to a specific piece of information only (such as bibliographic data or an individual variant name form) are recorded in that particular field.
-.4 Notes and Biographical Data
+==== 3.4 Notes and Biographical Data ====
+There are four categories of (public) notes in a CERL Thesaurus record:
+//**General notes**// can hold any information on the described entity that does not fit in any of the other categories.
+//**Biographical data**// and //**dates of activity**// should always hold the dates mentioned in the note also in machine readable form in a separate subfield, which can then be used for sorting records chronologically or filtering for records from a certain time period. Biographical data can also be given as  dates of existence of a corporate entity. "Founding dates" or similar of places are not given here, though.
+In the form based editor biographical data and date of activities are two separate fields, while in the (Unimarc-based) "CT Internal Format" the same field is used with a different value at the first indicator position.
+Any other information about a person's, printer's or corporate body's academic title / degree, domain of artistic expression, intellectual responsibility for a publication, language(s), profession/occupation, religious affiliation, title(s) of nobility, traded items or any other activity is given as an //**activity note**//. In an activity note it is possible to use controlled vocabulary. When controlled Vocabulary is used, the corresponding URI is given as well, or, in case there is no URI, the source vocabulary is indicated.
+Any aspect of the entity's description relating to geography in any way or form is given as a //**geographic note**//. A geographic note can also hold terms from a controlled vocabulary including their URI or a country code. Place records often indicate the country/province/region the place belongs to nowadays as a means of identification or disambiguation.
+Unless controlled vocabulary or codes are used, all note fields are free-text fields, which means that the language of the note is always indicated. Note fields also provide a subfield to record the source the information is taken from.
+For a detailed description of the available fields and the input convention applying see:
+  * [[:resources:cerl_thesaurus:editing:format:300]]
+  * [[:resources:cerl_thesaurus:editing:format:340]]
+  * [[:resources:cerl_thesaurus:editing:format:350]]
+  * [[:resources:cerl_thesaurus:editing:format:356]]
 ==== 3.5 Related Places ====
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-.10 Other Formats
+==== 3.10 Other Formats ====
+Internally, CERL Thesaurus records are stored as JSON objects. From the web interface, the (actual) internal format of a record can be retrieved in JSON or YAML. For compatiblity reasons the interface also supports the old "CT Internal Format" based on Unimarc Authorities as a working format. Data can be entered and edited equally in either the old or the new format (see below).
+Additionally CT data can be retrieved in RDF as well (RDF/XML, Turtle or JSON-LD) to use it in Linked Data applications. There are, however, a few pieces of information that are currently not translated into RDF, so RDF description sets are marginally less complete than records in the (JSON-based) internal format or the old (Unimarc-based) "CT Internal Format".
 ===== 4 Editing the CERL Thesaurus =====

resources/cerl_thesaurus/editing/newinterface.txt · Last modified: 2023/12/11 15:13 by jahnke