FactGrid:Freemasonry data model
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Basic Data
- Instance of Property:P2 to state Lodge (Freemasonry) Item:Q11211, Deputationsloge Item:Q183947 or Minerval Church (Illuminati) Item:Q11213
- Field of research Property:P131 and Freemasonry Item:Q10678 to integrate the item in wide searches
- Place of home address Property:P83 to refer to the respective town or city
- Address Property:P208 to state a specific real estate where meetings took place
- Begin date Property:P49
- End date Property:P50
- use history Property:P50 + active phase Item:Q94446 and qualifiers begin Property:P49 and Property:P50 if you want to mark stretches of activity and inactivity. See Item:Q10575
- Continuation of Property:P6 to state a precursor
- Continued by Property:P7 to state a successor
- Merger with Property:P436 to state state other lodges that went into a merger
- Includes Property:P9 if a union like United 5 Lodges of Hamburg needs to be specified
Changing names
- Use the alias function in the header to refer directly to the different names like Ernst zum Compass and useful abbreviations
- name history Property:P34 to give a history with dates and sources of name changes
Integration
- Degrees worked Property:P361 to state St John's Masonry Item:Q99800 or Scottish Freemasonry Item:Q99749
- Next higher hierarchy level Property:P428 to state for instance the Prefecture Liguria (Illuminati) Item:Q11165 in the case of Gotha's Minerval Church Item:Q10601
- System adhered to Property:P521 in order to state the respective ritual system the lodge adopted see our
- FactGrid's list of masonic systems (can be expanded any time)
- Mother Lodge Property:P336 to state the Lodge that founded a particular Lodge. Add qualifiers
- Begin date Property:P49 to state the beginning of the relationship
- Specific position Property:P166 to state that a lodge was acting here as deputy lodge/Deputationsloge
- Patent granted by Property:P332 to state the Lodge that granted the patent. Add qualifiers
- date Property:P106 to state the date the patent was granted
- primary source to name the Item of the document
- Grand Lodge affiliation Property:P430 to state the Grand Lodge a particular lodge has chosen as the roof organisation
- Member of Property:P91 to state organisational memberships
It is possible to state Daughter Lodges with the Property:P335 but the statements will create a redundancy (and more work to keep changing statements in line) as we already mention the mother lodge on the daughter's item.
Members
It is possible to state members on the lodge item with Property:P293, but not recommendable since some organisations will have thousands of members, and since it will also be hard work to make sure that we have the same information on the person's side and on the lodge's side. Give the membership information preferably in the item of the particular member.
State on the lodge's side:
- founded by Property:P268 to state the founder(s) of the lodge
- founding members Property:P338 to state the circle of those who began the congregation
- In leading positions Property:P14 to state higher functionaries person by person. Qualify their roles with:
- Specific position Property:P166 to state the specific role like worshipful master, secretary etc.
- Begin date Property:P49 to state the date when the person came into this position
- End date Property:P50 to state when the office terminated
- Documented list of members Property:P327 to state documents and publications that offer lists of members
- FactGrid list of members Property:P320 to set the link of a FactGrid search that creates a list of members
Masonic Systems / Ritual Systems
- Instance of Property:P2 with the statements masonic system Item:Q99758 and/ or ritual system Item:Q183901
- Begin date Property:P49 to state when the construction of the system began
- End date Property:P50 to state when a system became obsolete
- Organisational context Property:P267 state Freemasonry Item:Q10678 if you want the system to be listed under Masonic systems, state more specific contexts as you feel fit
- Institution signing responsible Property:P66 if there is a particular organisation controlling the system
- Author Property:P21 to state those who designed the system
- Degree system Property:P357 to state the different degrees of a system. Useful qualifiers:
- Sequence number Property:P499 to give the career steps in their sequence
- Begin date Property:P49 to state when a degree was first brought into circulation
- End date Property:P50 to state when a degree became obsolete
- Documentation Property:P352 to reference the authoritative contemporary documentation of a degree (use references to refer to research literature etc.)
- Documentation Property:P352 to reference the authoritative contemporary documentation of a Masonic system.
- Preceding in stemma Property:P233 if you want to refer to genetic precursors. Qualify with
- Connection in stemma Property:P233 how the system is related to precursors. This will require Q-Numbers for specific genetic relationships such as variation, expansion...
Rituals / Degrees
- Instance of Property:P2 and statements Masonic degree Item:Q99568 and/ or Ritual Item:Q77545
- Begin date Property:P49 to state the date of composition
- End date Property:P50 to state when a degree became obsolete
- Organisational context Property:P267 state Freemasonry Item:Q10678 if you want the ritual/ degree to be listed under Masonic systems and state more specific contexts as you feel fit
- Institution signing responsible Property:P66 if there is a particular organisation controlling the ritual
- Component in which system? Property:P327 to mention the system(s) in which this ritual/degree is working
- Author Property:P21 to state those who designed the ritual
- Documentation Property:P352 to reference the authoritative contemporary documentation of the rite/ritual/degree.
- Preceding in stemma Property:P233 if you want to refer to genetic precursors. Qualify with
- Connection in stemma Property:P233 how the rite/degree is related to precursors. This will require Q-Numbers for specific genetic relationships such as variation, expansion...
Freemasons
See Christian Georg von Helmolt Item:Q474 as a example
- Member of Property:P91 — state Freemsonry Item:Q10678 to keep all known Freemasons together and state individual lodges in ensuing P91 membership statements. The following qualifiers can be used to be more specific:
- Begin date Property:P49 to state the entry date
- End date Property:P50 to state the termination of a membership
- Status of affiliation Property:P277 if this is critical information as in the case of the Illuminati Item:Q81288 where we we took signed the Revers as the entry point.
- Where did this happen? Property:P47 to state where the entry took place
- Proposed by Property:P269 to state the person who proposed the membership
- Received by Property:P503 to state the person who mentored the membership process
- Proposed to become a member of Property:P454 especially useful to state admission processes that did not lead to the membership status.
- Use the qualifiers above to be more specific.
- Masonic degree Property:P447 to state the degrees a person received. Use qualifiers
- Begin date Property:P49 to state the date the person entered this rank
- Institution signing responsible Property:P66 to state the organisation that granted the degree
- Office Property:P164 to state offices like Orator (Masonic office) Item:Q146303. Use qualifiers
- Begin date Property:P49 to state the begin of the office
- End date Property:P50 to state the termination of the position
- Organisational context Property:P267 to state the Lodge or organisation in which this office was held.