encoding collections

[eroux]

Now that we have the minimal thing with the products, I think it would be good to encode collections too, in a more detailed way (I have some NGMPP data to encode with it). The main use cases are:

• household collections:
  • collection of mister X, in village Y
  • collection of lama X in monastery Y
• institutional collections:
  • collection of monastery X
  • national archives of X
  • special collection X in Library Y (ex: Stein collection at BL, Tucci collection at IsIAO, etc.)

I think there could be a new "Collection" entity (I would almost say it could be a subclass of product but I don't really see it leaving in the bda: namespace...). And a property linking either Instance (for manuscripts) or Item (the more general case) and collection. A collection could have two properties (in addition to the labels), :agent and :place? wdyt @xristy ?

[eroux]

here's an alternative: digital collection could be a subclass of collection and could replace products (as a generalization of this aspect of products, there may be other aspects of products not cover by collections?)

[xristy]

How related to collection skos:scheme idea?

[xristy]

bdo:Collection class hierarchy will replace bda:Product. The following classes and properties are added:

bdo:Collection
  rdfs:subClassOf bdo:Entity ;
.
bdo:HouseholdCollection
  rdfs:subClassOf bdo:Collection ;
.
bdo:InstitutionalCollection
  rdfs:subClassOf bdo:Collection ;
.
bdo:MonasticCollection
  rdfs:subClassOf bdo:InstitutionalCollection ;
.
bdo:ArchivesCollection
  rdfs:subClassOf bdo:InstitutionalCollection ;
.
bdo:SpecialCollection
  rdfs:subClassOf bdo:InstitutionalCollection ;
.
bdo:collectionMember
  rdfs:domain bdo:Collection ;
  rdfs:range bdo:BiblioEntity ;
  owl:inverseOf bdo:inCollection ;
.
bdo:collectionAgent
  rdfs:domain bdo:Collection ;
  rdfs:range bdo:Agents ;
.
bdo:collectionPlace
  rdfs:domain bdo:Collection ;
  rdfs:range bdo:Place ;
.
bdo:inCollection
  rdfs:domain bdo:BiblioEntity ;
  rdfs:range bdo:Collection ;
  owl:inverseOf bdo:collectionMember ;
.

Note that bdo:CollectionInstitution exists and is unused hence deprecated.

Also adm:productHasDigitalInstance is deprecated in favor of bdo:collectionMember.

[eroux]

great, thanks! I'll use that for the various partner collections, starting with NGMCP