User:Dvmorris/Architect

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This page contains ideas on how to change Archiplanet's wiki into a semantic wiki by adding attributes and relations to each architect page. There could potentially be so many simliarities between a page about an architect and a page about an architecture firm that it may be possible to merge these two pages.

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[edit] Precedent Templates for Architects

[edit] Archiplanet

Here is an example of an architect page at archiplanet's wiki now: Daniel Libeskind.

The info is grabbed directly from Greatbuildings.com, and it is quite disorganized. It does not allow for any kind of machine interpretation, and has a lot of room for expansion/improvement.

[edit] Wikipedia

Here is the existing Architect template from wikipedia. It looks like this more or less: 

{{Infobox Architect
|image=
|caption=
|name=
|nationality=
|birth_date=
|birth_place=
|death_date=
|death_place=
|practice_name=
|significant_buildings=
|significant_projects=
|awards=
|}}
<!--Example format for first sentence:-
'''Joseph Everyman Bloggs''' (Joe Blogs) ([[13 March]] [[1825]]–[[15 March]] [[1898]]) was an [[England|English]] [[Architect]].
-->

==Work==

===Buildings===
<!--Example format
*Most Holy Trinity in Lyttelton, 1851 (demolished)
*Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings, 1858–1865: [http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Christchurch/CanterburyProvincialCouncilChambers/History/]
-->
===Projects===

===Awards===

==Resources==

===See also===

<h4>General</h4> 
|-
| [[Relation:Designed]] || to link to the building article of a building the architect designed. could be the same as [[Relation:Built]]
|-
| [[Relation:Is famous for]] || link to a building the firm or architect is famous for.
|-
| [[Relation:Nationality]]|| would link to the article about a certain country
|}

===References===
<div class="references-small">
<!--Example format
*Mclintock, A.H. (ed). "Mountfort, Benjamin Woolfield" (1966), ''An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand''. (This claims Mountfort was also a pupil of Gilbert Scott.) Govt. Print New Zealand.
-->
</div>

===External links===
<!--Example format
*[http://wheteveryourlinkis A description of the link]. Retrieved month day, year.
-->

<!--Example format
[[Category:1821 births|Blogs, Joe]]
[[Category:1941 deaths|Blogs, Joe]]
[[Category:English architects|Blogs, Joe]]
-->

[edit] Semantic Person Template

The Person Template at ontoworld.org/wiki can serve as a base for articles about architects. It is quite basic, but has some nice features, including use of the Type:Email. 

{{Person|
  Name=The full name of the person|
  Affiliation=Name of the person's organisation|
  Homepage=URL of someones ''personal'' homepage (without http://)|
  Homepage label=Short text for homepage, if URL is too long|
  Email=email address (if public)|
  Phone=a phone number, usually work phone|
  FOAF=the full URL (with http://) of the persons [[FOAF]] file (if you have more than one, use [[Attribute:see also]] in the article)
 }}

[edit] Semantic Architect Pages

  • It can be confusing to decide which parts of a page should be stored as an attribute or a relation. Many of these are up for discussion, and others have issues that are noted in the table below.

[edit] Possible Semantic Attributes

Attributes are descriptions of the characteristics of an object. For more info on Attributes, click here.

Attribute Name Data Type Description
Attribute:Architect name Type:String full name of architect (same as the page name)
Attribute:Also known as Type:String if a firm or person has multiple names or nicknames
Attribute:Nationality Type:String stored as the term referring to country or region of origin (e.g. [Nationality:=French])

Contact info

Attribute:Phone Type:String phone number for the architect, probably not going to be used here. will use the [callto://+123456789] template.
Attribute:Fax Type:String fax number, could also use the [callto://+123456789] template.
Attribute:Web Type:String web address, obviously for linking to the architet's webpage.
Attribute:Email Type:String email address, will be put in the template page like this - [email:=example@example.com]. Here is another example of the email attribute from ontoworld.
Attribute:University Type:String the name of the university where the architect went to school, could also be stored as a relation for linking to the page of the university.
Attribute:Degree Type:String the type of degree earned by the architect, or maybe just the most important degree, since most architects have more than one degree
Attribute:Professor at Type:String the name of the university where the architect teaches or taught. this could be difficult to handle, since most professors teach at many different universities at different times. This should be expanded to include year ranges for teaching jobs. See [1] for a discussion.

Time

- see [2] for a discussion of representing years semantically. and also read here to see how semantic wiki currently handle people's birthdates and deathdates. It should also be noted that the archiplanet wiki may need to use astronomical year numbering because many dates will fall in BC, and this will avoid having to parse a string with BC or AD in it.
Attribute:Year of birth Type:Integer to describe the year an architect was born. See also Relation:Born in year.
Attribute:Year of death Type:Integer year the architect died. see also Relation:Died in year
Attribute:Year of graduation Type:Integer year the architect graduated from their university. see also Relation:Graduated in year and Relation:Became architect in year

[edit] Possible Relations

Relations are machine-processable descriptions of relationships between wiki articles. Read here for more info on relations. Many of the examples below could possibly serve the purposes of the Archiplanet wiki better as Attributes.

Relation Name Description

General

Relation:Designed to link to the building article of a building the architect designed. could be the same as Built
Relation:Is famous for link to a building the firm or architect is famous for.
Relation:Nationality would link to the article about a certain country

[edit] Other Ideas

  • using the wikipedia template like on wikicompany.
  • custom parser functions like wikicompany to pull in extra info about an architecture firm, like an rss feed or something else significant, like news articles via news.google.com.
  • linking to wikicompany of course.
  • linking to greatbuildings page as archiplanet already does.
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