Naming places

Schema: EAC-CPF 2.0

Context: Encoding the name of a place in relation to other aspects of the entity description

Description: When describing a CPF entity, the description of this entity’s functions, activities, roles, occupations, mandates, etc. can play a vital role. In addition to simply naming such aspects, it furthermore can be useful to add a place dimension to them, e.g. when a person described has pursued their profession in various contexts and at several locations over time. Using the attributes @valueURI, @vocabularySource, and/or @vocabularySourceURI allows linking names of geographic locations in the element to external vocabularies and ontologies that might hold additional information such as name variations or geographic coordinates of the place. Similarly, one could use the attribute @target to point to the @id attribute of a element within the same EAC-CPF instance where more details about the named location have been provided.

Example

<cpfDescription>
    <identity>
        <entityType value="person"/>
        <nameEntry status="authorized" languageOfElement="eng">
            <part localType="firstname">Toni</part>
            <part localType="lastname">Morrison</part>
        </nameEntry>
        <nameEntry status="authorized" languageOfElement="eng">
            <part localType="birthname">Chloe Ardelia Wofford</part>
        </nameEntry>
    </identity>
    <description>
        <occupations>
            <!-- [...] -->
            <occupation valueURI="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1622272" 
            vocabularySource="Wikidata" vocabularySourceURI="https://www.wikidata.org">
                <term>University teacher</term>
                <placeName>Texas Southern University, Houston</placeName>
                <placeName>Howard University, Washington, D.C.</placeName>
                <placeName>State University of New York at Albany</placeName>
                <placeName>New Brunswick campus, Rutgers University, New Jersey</placeName>
                <placeName>Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson</placeName>
                <placeName>Cornell University, Ithaca</placeName>
                <placeName>Princeton University, Princeton</placeName>
            </occupation>
            <!-- [...] -->
        </occupations>
    </description>
</cpfDescription>