Linked Art API: Name Structure

Table of Contents

Introduction
Property Definitions
Example
Future Considerations

Introduction

Names are linguistic labels given to some entity, and represented as a common JSON structure in all endpoints.

Names are described in the base patterns of the model documentation, and examples are present for practically every class.

Property Definitions

Properties of Names

Property Name	Datatype	Requirement	Description
`id`	string	Optional	If present, the value MUST be a URI identifying the name, from which a representation of the name can be retrieved
`type`	string	Required	The class for the name, which MUST be the value `"Name"`
`_label`	string	Optional	A human readable label, intended for developers
`_complete`	boolean	Optional	Non-Semantic. If there is an `id` property with a URI, and there is more information about the name available from the representation at that URI, then `_complete` MUST be present with a value of `false` to inform the consuming application that it might want to retrieve it
`content`	string	Required	The string form of the Name
`classified_as`	array	Recommended	An array of json objects, each of which is a further classification of the name and MUST follow the requirements for Type
`language`	array	Recommended	An array of json objects, each of which is a language present in the content of the name and MUST follow the requirements for Language
`part`	array	Optional	An array of json objects, each of which is a part of the current name, and MUST follow these requirements for Names
`identified_by`	array	Optional	An array of json objects, each of which is a name for this Name and follows the Name pattern
`referred_to_by`	array	Optional	An array of json objects, each of which is either a reference to a textual work that refers to the name, or an embedded statement about the Name.

Property Diagram

Incoming Properties

Name instances are typically found as the object of the following properties. This list is not exhaustive, but is intended to cover the likely cases.

Property Name	Source Class	Description
`identified_by`	All	Names are used to provide an identifying label to the entity via identified_by.

(And that's all!)

Example

An object is given the name "Hacha (Ceremonial Axe)", with a note that the original form was 'hacha'.

It has a URI given in id (that identifies the Name itself, not the object)
It has a type of "Name"
It is classified_as a primary name, with id of aat:300404670 and a type of "Type"
It has content of "Hacha (Ceremonial Axe)"
It has a display label of "Assigned Title"
It is referred_to_by a statement, with a type of "LinguisticObject", classified_as a note with id of aat:300027200 and with content of "Title was originally ..."
It has languages of English, with an id of aat:300388277 and type of "Language", and Spanish, with an id of aat:300389311 and type of "Language"
It has a specific part, which ...
- ... also has a type of "Name"
- ... is classified_as a subtitle, with an id of aat:300312006
- ... has content of "Ceremonial Axe"
- ... and a language of English, as above.

{
  "@context": "https://linked.art/ns/v1/linked-art.json",
  "id": "https://linked.art/example/object/9",
  "type": "HumanMadeObject",
  "identified_by": [
    {
      "type": "Name",
      "classified_as": [
        {
          "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404670",
          "type": "Type",
          "_label": "Primary Name"
        }
      ],
      "content": "Hacha (Ceremonial Axe)",
      "identified_by": [
        {
          "type": "Name",
          "classified_as": [
            {
              "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300404669",
              "type": "Type",
              "_label": "Display Title"
            }
          ],
          "content": "Assigned Title"
        }
      ],
      "referred_to_by": [
        {
          "type": "LinguisticObject",
          "classified_as": [
            {
              "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300027200",
              "type": "Type",
              "_label": "Note",
              "classified_as": [
                {
                  "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300418049",
                  "type": "Type",
                  "_label": "Brief Text"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "content": "Title was originally given as 'hacha'"
        }
      ],
      "language": [
        {
          "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300389311",
          "type": "Language",
          "_label": "Spanish"
        },
        {
          "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300388277",
          "type": "Language",
          "_label": "English"
        }
      ],
      "part": [
        {
          "type": "Name",
          "classified_as": [
            {
              "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300312006",
              "type": "Type",
              "_label": "Subtitle"
            }
          ],
          "content": "Ceremonial Axe",
          "language": [
            {
              "id": "http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300388277",
              "type": "Language",
              "_label": "English"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

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Future Considerations

Assignments, as described for Identifiers, could easily be added for Names, but there has not been a use case proposed.