Additional property for edm:Agent resources?

[briesenberg07]

Currently Photographer, Repository, and StudioName elements are output to the edm:Agent file. While these agents are linked to from source resources via rel:pht, dct:contributor, and edm:provider properties, the agents file itself provides little information about the nature of the resources.

Update:

• rel:pht: This property makes it clear that the agent took the photograph--no further elaboration is necessary
• edm:provider: dpla:providedLabel values in the agent file for this agent URI are University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections--no further elaboration is needed

Would it be good to use dct:description or another property to provide information about StudioName resources in the agents file? For example, a dct:description with value "Studio" could be hard-coded into the agent file template (under group-by=StudioName) to output as below:

Agents file currently provides:

<#RobertAReid> ---rdf:type edm:Agent ; ---dpla:providedLabel "Robert A. Reid" ;

Add?

---dct:description "Studio" .

The question remains whether values for StudioName refer to entities that have meaning in other ways than as "studios". But even if they do, it might still be okay to describe them as "studios".

[briesenberg07]

See commit 1aeca5e

• Added dct:description property with hard-coded value "Studio" to the agents file for output from StudioName element

[gerontakos]

Yes but I think it would be potentially more useful to use a uri than a literal.

Finding a uri is a little difficult.

There’s http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300312296 but its type is a gvp:Concept. Not quite right.

There’s http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q672070 but it’s a little difficult to sift through. Is it an instance of “InteriorSpace” or is it a subclass of “Studio”? When I look at the data Curl –vL –H “Accept: text/turtle” http://wikidata.org/entity/Q672070 …it appears to be only an instance of wikibase:Item. Well wait a second there are all those opaque identifiers … I’ll have to investigate etc etc, you get the idea.

So what would be a useful uri?

--Theo

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Currently Photographer, Repository, and StudioName elements are output to the edm:Agent file. While these agents are linked to from source resources via rel:pht, dct:contributor, and edm:provider properties, the agents file itself provides little information about the nature of the resources.

Would it be good to use dct:description or other properties with element-name values to provide information about these resources in the agents file?

For example:

Agents file currently provides:

<#NowellFrankH1864-1950> ---rdf:type edm:Agent ; ---dpla:providedLabel Nowell, Frank H., 1864-1950 ;

Add?

---dct:description Photographer .

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[briesenberg07]

Closing this because:

• Agent file properties have been finalized (for now)