FactGrid:Career Statements

Kupferstich "Der Buchhändler" aus: Abbildung der gemein-nützlichen Haupt-Stände von Christoph Weigel (Regensburg, 1698).

Basic ontology: Three granulations of "career statements"

FactGrid is presently running with some 8,800 "Career statements"

• All FactGrid Career statements

Career statements come in all sorts: "baker", "master baker", "court baker" to very specific statements like "rector/president of the University of Erfurt"

We have (P2)-sorted these under three headings:

• Item:Q37073 Career statement (baker, master baker, court baker, university rector, widow, pensioner)
• Item:Q37131 Career statement with historical or geographical specifications
• Item:Q257052 Career statement that captures a sequence of incumbents "rector/president of the University of Erfurt"

The three categories interconnected through (P3) "sub property of" statements, so that you can easily ask for all university directors, although several of them are running under far more specific statements. Search for wdt:P165/wdt:P3* on the top level to get the respective full sets.

• sample search: All university rectors/ presidents on FactGrid

Connected to the OhdAB ontology

• FactGrid:OhdAB-Datenbank OhdAB project space

All our "career statements" are connected to Katrin Moellers ontology of career statements OhdAB. The OhdAB has some 45,000 items in a distinct hierarchy of differentiations: this is the German default link and an English translation query

• https://kurzelinks.de/OhdAB German (original version)
• http://tinyurl.com/ylkfblre English (complex translation to be used with a grain of salt)

OhdAB items begin with the OhdAB number code and are a sphere of their own (contact Katrin Moeller and her working group on their project page) - yet we are connecting all our career statements into the OhdAB classification so that we can run, for instance, statistics on the OhdAB ontology:

• The members of Frankfurt's Unions-Lodge, occupations bubble chart the make shift FactGrid system on Property:P626
• The members of Frankfurt's Unions-Lodge, occupations bubble chart the same statistical analysis on the OhdAB-01 level.

The OhdAB matching is not yet finished, but we will get this done in the first weeks of 2024. The OhdAB translation is another project. The German labelling is the source labelling, other language labels are welcome. We offer an English version with a good deal of DeepL translations - this is not yet perfect.

If you create career statements

1. Use the career statements we already have wherever applicable.
2. If you need new statements: Create them with a P2 statement of Item:Q37073 / Item:Q37131 or Item:Q257052 and connect them to the OhdAB ontology with a Property:P1007 statement.
3. If you do not find the proper OhdAB match - contact the OhdAB team to create the perfect match of a pragmatic regular statement and a OhdAB systematic identification.