PAHMA Data migration—Place Authority mappings

The following CSpace information units copied 2011-01-20 from Place Authority Schema

Information unit

Definition

PAHMA-CSpace mappings

Place Display Name

Term that displays in search results/ reports. Comprised of primary place name.

 

Place Name

Proper names, appellations, nicknames, or other identifying phrases by which a place is known.

 

> Place name language

The language of the place name.

 

> Place name type

The nature or category of the Place name.

 

> Place name status

The status of the Place name.

 

Place coordinates

The precise location of a place expressed according to a chosen system.

 

> Place coordinates qualifier

The measurement of accuracy of a given for Place coordinates.

 

> Place coordinates type

The locating system used to describe the coordinates of a Place.

 

Place Status

A formal administrative or scientific status assigned to a place.

 

Place Note

Additional information about Place which has not been recorded elsewhere using controlled terminology.

 

Place Owner

The name of the owner of a Place associated with an object.

 

Term status

A field noting the status of a term in a vocabulary, whether provisional or accepted

 

Notes

Controlled text contents

Field

Value(s)

Default Value

Place name language

Codes in the ISO Representation of Names of Languages, ISO 639-2 (some 400 "living" languages) or
Codes in the ISO Representation of Names of Languages, ISO 639-3 (some 7,500 languages, including ancient, historic and extinct languages; nearly a superset of 639-2 except for certain language groupings)
(to be presented along with associated display names)

eng (English)

Place name status

current; dialect; historical

none

Place coordinates type

Altitude Depth, Latitude and longitude, National Grid reference, Universal Transverse Mercator

none

Place status

National battlefield site, National memorial, National monument, National park, National register of historic places

none

Status

accepted; provisional; rejected; under review

provisional