Properties for documents
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- document type by medium (P15)
Properties to describe documents
Document and file
- instance of (P2) - file (Q10672)/ document (Q10671)/ section in a document (Q10674)
- is part of (P8) - state the file or the collection (in which you found the file) and use the following qualifiers for detailed reference:
- page(s) (P54) - string to state page range
- fol. (P100) - string to state fol. range
- section (P103) - string to state section of your document
- footnote (P102) - string to refer to a footnote
- annex (P104) - string to state the annex to which your document belongs
- volume (P105) - string to state the volume to which your document or file belongs
- position in series (P101) - qualifier to state the position if documents in your file are numbered
- consists of (P9)
Locating the document in the archive
- location (P47) - which archive?
- archival collection (P123) - which archival collection does your document belong to?
- shelf mark (P10)
- power of disposal (P132) - whom do you have to contact in order to see the document (answer if unusual)
- owner (P126) - answer if the archive is not the owner
- status of possesion (P127) eg. permanent loan/ depositum (Q11284)
- catalogue entry to the item (P124)
- accessibility (P125)
- eg. access on arrangement with the owners (Q11276)
- history of provenance (P136)
- history (P137) - if you create a sub-plot
- online (P138)
- online information (P146)
- indication the object existed (P52)
Material description
- height (P59)
- width (P60)
- depth, thickness (P61)
- number of pages (P107) - use to state total number of pages of your document
- number of sheets (P108) - alternatively use to state total number of sheets of your document
General information
- document type by medium (P15)
- what is originality of this document? (P115): it is the original (Q11177), a copy (Q11178), a draft version (Q11181), an extract (Q11182), a reprint (Q11183), a catalogue entry (Q11184) a carbon copy (Q11179) a photo copy (Q11180)
- language (P18)
- coding key (P113)
Title, topic etc.
- short title (P5)
- title (P11)
- genre as stated (P4)
- standardized genre (P121)
- wider field of genres (P122)
- topic (P19)
Dating the document
- dated (P106)
- to give a circa date: use "sourcing circumstances" (P155) + Item:Q21402, circa
- to state a terminus post/ante quem date use "unknown date" plus (P41) for "date after" or (P43) for "date before"
- begin of composition (P39)
- begin of events reported (P45)
- end of events reported (P46)
- date of dispatch (P96)
- date as strangely stated (P112) - string if you have a strange, misleading or coded date
Locating the document in exchange
- continuation of (P6)
- copy of (P16)
- refers to (P17)
- answer on (P65)
- translation of (P63)
- transcript of (P69)
- the original to this (P114)
- referring to (P116)
Author
- author (P21)
- author as (misleadingly) stated (P20)
- institution signing responsible (P66)
- transmitted by (P134) - you do not know the author but the person who introduces the document
- prepared by (P22)
- translated by (P24)
- handwritten by (P25)
- place of origin (P95)
- sender's place as strangely stated (P111)
- decoded (P110) + not resolved in FactGrid (Q11172)
Receiver(s)/Addressees
- recipient 1 (P28)
- recipient 2 (P128)
- recipient 3 (P129)
- actually addressed to (P27)
- decoded (P110) + not resolved in FactGrid (Q11172)
- institution addressed (P130)
Who is mentioned
- persons mentioned (P33)
Information on this document
- literature on this (P12)
- documented (P51)
- published in (P64)
- transcript (text)]] (P70)
- transcribed by (P56)
- scan (P55)
- digest in German (P72)
- translation into German (P71)
- specific reference (P84)
Crediting work on this
- this information by (P131)