PlaceDescription (XML)
A PlaceDescription is used to describe the details of a place in terms of its name
and possibly its type, time period, and/or a geospatial description -- a description
of a place as a snapshot in time.
| Namespace: | http://gedcomx.org/v1/ |
| URI: | http://gedcomx.org/v1/PlaceDescription |
| Extends: | Subject |
Properties
| Name |
Type |
Description |
|
| type |
string
|
An implementation-specific uniform resource identifier (URI) used to identify the type of a place (e.g., address, city, county, province, state, country, etc.). |
FTU
|
| name |
list of
TextValue
|
An ordered list of standardized (or normalized), fully-qualified (in terms of what is known of the applicable jurisdictional hierarchy) names for this place that are applicable to this description of this place.
The list MUST include at least one value. It is RECOMMENDED that instances include a single name and any equivalents from other cultural contexts;
name variants should more typically be described in separate PlaceDescription instances. The list is assumed to be given in order of preference,
with the most preferred value in the first position in the list. |
|
| temporalDescription |
Date
|
A description of the time period to which this place description is relevant. |
FTU
|
| latitude |
double
|
Degrees north or south of the Equator (0.0 degrees). Values range from −90.0 degrees (south) to 90.0 degrees (north). |
|
| longitude |
double
|
Angular distance in degrees, relative to the Prime Meridian. Values range from −180.0 degrees (west of the Meridian) to 180.0 degrees (east of the Meridian). |
|
| spatialDescription |
ResourceReference
|
A reference to a geospatial description of this place.
It is RECOMMENDED that this description resolve to a KML document. |
FTU
|
| place |
ResourceReference
|
A reference to the place being described. |
|
| jurisdiction |
ResourceReference
|
A reference to a description of the jurisdiction this place. |
|
| display |
PlaceDisplayProperties
|
Display properties for the place. Display properties are not specified by GEDCOM X core, but as extension elements by GEDCOM X RS. |
|
| Properties inherited from Subject |
| extracted |
boolean
|
Whether this subject has been identified as "extracted", meaning it captures information extracted from a single source. |
FTU
|
| evidence |
list of
EvidenceReference
|
References to the evidence being referenced for this subject. |
|
| media |
list of
SourceReference
|
References to multimedia resources associated with this subject. |
|
| identifier |
list of
Identifier
|
The list of identifiers for the subject. |
|
| Properties inherited from Conclusion |
| sortKey |
string
|
A sort key in relation to other facts for display purposes. |
|
| confidence |
string
|
The level of confidence the contributor has about the data. |
|
| lang |
string
|
The language of the conclusion. See http://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/ |
FTR
|
| attribution |
Attribution
|
Attribution metadata for a conclusion. |
|
| source |
list of
SourceReference
|
The source references for a conclusion. |
|
| analysis |
ResourceReference
|
A reference to the analysis document explaining the analysis that went into this conclusion. |
FTU
|
| note |
list of
Note
|
Notes about a person. |
|
| Properties inherited from HypermediaEnabledData |
| link |
list of
Link
|
The list of hypermedia links. Links are not specified by GEDCOM X core, but as extension elements by GEDCOM X RS. |
|
| Properties inherited from ExtensibleData |
| id |
string
|
A local, context-specific id for the data. |
|
Example
<p----- confidence="..." extracted="..." xml:lang="..." sortKey="..." type="..." xmlns="http://gedcomx.org/v1/">
<name xml:lang="...">...</name>
<temporalDescription confidence="..." id="...">
<original>...</original>
<formal>...</formal>
<normalized xml:lang="...">...</normalized>
<extension1 xmlns="">...</extension1>
<extension2 xmlns="">...</extension2>
</temporalDescription>
<latitude>...</latitude>
<longitude>...</longitude>
<spatialDescription resource="..." resourceId="..."/>
<place resource="..." resourceId="..."/>
<jurisdiction resource="..." resourceId="..."/>
<display id="...">
<fullName>...</fullName>
<name>...</name>
<type>...</type>
<extension1 xmlns="">...</extension1>
<extension2 xmlns="">...</extension2>
</display>
<evidence resource="..." resourceId="...">
<attribution/>
</evidence>
<media description="..." descriptionId="...">
<attribution/>
<qualifier/>
</media>
<identifier type="...">...</identifier>
<attribution/>
<source/>
<analysis/>
<note/>
</p----->