PROCEDURE

A) source objects

1.    Produce «source object» if necessary

1. Book: use «serially produced object»

   1. Exemple: Eigenmann, Philipp, Migration macht Schule. Bildungs- und Berufsqualifikation von und für Italienerinnen und Italiener in Zürich, 1960-1990, Zurich, 2017

2. Archival source: use “unique source object”

   1. Exemple: AAV Prefettura Casa Pont Udienze b38 1939

3. Websource

   1. Example: Webpage Wikipedia Adolf Betram

      
      
      

Open

2.    Produce person entity

• create new person

Open

3.    Link «person» to source object

• choose: «topic of» or “mentioned in”

5.    Add additional personal information like gender or birth

• open entity card of person

• activate “show all fields” of “specific fields”

• add “has gender” or “was born”

6.    Add title

• add all general functions/qualities as “social quality”

  • for example “Cardinale”

• add for each person a “social quality of an actor (temporal)”

• chose the type

• see end-result below:

7.    Add specific functions as “social roles”

• add all functions as “social roles”

  • for example: “Archbishop of Breslau” or “Ambassador of France”

• add for each person a “social actor embodiment” (temporal)

  • this characteristic indicates from when to when a person carried out this role

• choose the type and time span of this function:

• final result might look like this:

8.   Add a table

• open a “unique source object” of which you have a table reproducing its content

• open the space of “sections” and “reproduction”

• open the table

9.   Link person and a cell in a table

• map a column to the class “person”

  • click on “edit” to start editing

  • select the right column for “mapping

• choose entity class “person” and confirm mapping

• match the cell to your entity

• the endresult looks like this:

10.    Visualize list with all persons and their qualities and roles

• open analysis section and the pre-configured query “Persons, Qualities & Roles”

• then click on “Run”

• from the table you can switch back to entities by clicking on them

Other interesting options for your person entities

11.    If of interest: Add confession

• add all religions via “Religion or religious denomination”

  • e.g. Catholic, Jew etc.

• add for each person “has religous identity”

12.   If of interest: Add domicile

add: “has social quality”

• select “social location of an actor” = domicile

  • add “has specific location” and then enter the streetname and number as the “name” of this construction (in other words: we record the building which is/was situated at this street)

13.    Add membership in “association”/ party

• open entity card and add “is member of”

Working with association/ group

14.    Add association as a group

• select “add a group”

• fill in the information

  • add a name & definition

  • select the type of group (e.g. association, party etc.)

  • if wished: link it to a geographical place

    • for this: click on advanced form

    • select “has quality” and add a “social location of an actor”.

      • There, select “has generic location” to give information about the neighbourhood (or similar) or

      • select “has specific location” to give information about the house where the group was located

Note: see below how and where to add new types of groups