User:Dvmorris/Architectural Styles

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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 architectural style article.

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[edit] Semantic Architectural Style Pages

  • The architectural style pages will need to include 
    <ask>[Arhitectural Style:=Baroque]</ask>
    functions in order to list all the members of that specific style.
  • Here are some example architectural styles from greatbuildings.com 
Neolithic
Ancient Egyptian
Ancient Greek
Ancient Roman	
Medieval
Gothic
Hindu Architecture
Islamic
Romanesque
Traditional Japanese
Renaissance
Baroque
Victorian
Romantic
Art Nouveau 
Richardsonian
Arts and Crafts
Neo-Classical
Art Deco
Early Modern
Prairie Style
Bay Area Regional
Modern 
Expressionist Modern 
Deconstructivist Modern
Corporate Modern
Post Modern
High Tech
Expressionist
Vernacular
African Vernacular
Neo-Vernacular

[edit] Possible Semantic Attributes for Architectural Styles

These attributes would be places on a page about an architectural style in order to relate different characteristics of one architectural style with another.

Attribute Name Data Type Description
Attribute:Architectural style name Type:String full name of architectural style (same as the page name)
Attribute:Also known as Type:String if a style has multiple names

Describing Location

see [1] for a discussion on using attributes vs. references to represent location
Attribute:Region Type:String could store regions of the world where this architectural style is seen or used

Time

- see [2] for a discussion of representing years semantically
Attribute:Architectural style start date Type:Integer to describe the year an architectural style began. See also Relation:Architectural style started in.
Attribute:Architectural style end date Type:Integer to describe the year an architectural style ended, if one exists. see also Relation:Architectural style completed in.

Other Attributes

Attribute:Architectural element Type:String name of primary architectural elements featured in the style or period
Attribute:Construction type Type:String name of primary construction types featured in the style or period. might not be significant

[edit] Possible Relations for Semantic Architectural style Pages

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.

  • none yet. to be completed...
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