Place (conditionally mandatory)

Definition

Place where the event described in the object history occurred

Other possible database element names

Geographic reference

Place of discovery 

Mint

Text/URI

Text and/or URI

Repeatable

Yes

Obligation level

At least one event in the history of the object is mandatory.

In addition to the Event type, each event must have at least one "who", "where" or "when". 

Recording notes

It is recommended to specify names of persons/entities both in a text element and separately using URIs from authority files. If both current and historical place names are recorded, these should be documented in separate data elements or otherwise identified.

CARE: Knowledge gaps in the object's history should always be disclosed (e.g. by stating “not documented” or “not known to us” in the data elements “Person/entity”, “Date”, “Location”). Uncertainties or attributions that originate, for example, from the surviving collection entry documentation should be contextualized in a separate data element “Event description” (in LIDO: <lido:eventDescriptionSet>/<descriptiveNoteValue>). References to the location of collection items from colonial contexts often originate from historical records or documents. As the names and political affiliations of places have changed, it is often not possible to reconstruct which place it is today. In this case, the assignment of URIs from standard vocabularies should not imply any supposed accuracy. Instead, the historical name (in its literal form) should be published via a text data field (in LIDO:  <lido:namePlaceSet>/<lido:appellationValue>). Under certain circumstances, places of origin should not be published at all, e. g. to protect artefacts from looting or plants from illegal collection.

Terminology recommendation

Geonames 

Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)

Wikidata 

Integrated Authority File (GND, German National Library): The following search interfaces provide a convenient way to search the GND: https://explore.gnd.network/ (GND-Explorer), https://lobid.org/gnd (lobid-gnd), https://swb.bsz-bw.de/DB=2.104/ (OGND)

Pleiades (for historical place names)

Examples

Expression in LIDO (v1.0 und v1.1)

<lido:eventWrap>
    <lido:eventSet>
		 <lido:event>
		      <lido:eventPlace>
	               <lido:place>
                         <lido:placeID lido:type="http://terminology.lido-schema.org/lido00099">https://sws.geonames.org/2855745/</lido:placeID>
                         <lido:namePlaceSet>
                              <lido:appellationValue>Paderborn</lido:appellationValue>                      
                         </lido:namePlaceSet>                                            
                    </lido:place>               
               </lido:eventPlace>
          </lido:event>
     </lido:eventSet>
 </lido:eventWrap>

Comparison with relevant standards and database models

ID data element

mds0012