wiki:PipdiDataModel

Data model for PIPDI

The PIPDI data model is mostly identical with the IsmiDataModel ISMI data model?.

It has a more elaborate subject hierarchy.

Conceptual objects in the database:

  • (abstract-) TEXT
  • ALIAS (title for text or name for person or place)
  • WITNESS (aka manuscript)
  • CODEX (of one or more witnesses)
  • COLLECTION
  • REPOSITORY (aka library)
  • PERSON
  • PLACE
  • SUBJECT

We need:

  • linking chapters from the table of contents of the TEXT to folio pages of the WITNESS
  • chapters/sections at the TEXT level are tagged with subject keywords
  • sections at the WITNESS level have folio and line number information

Objects

SECTION

Attributes:

  • title name or title of section (arabic)
  • title_translit
  • ord_no ordinal number for ordering same-level sections (used internally)

Relations:

  • SECTION is_part_of SECTION
  • SECTION is_found_in WITNESS
    • begins_on_folio
    • begins_on_line
    • ends_on_folio
    • ends_on_line

SUBJECT

subjects are subject matters that are treated in a text.

Attributes:

  • name subject name or description (English?)
  • name_arabic
  • notes

Relations:

  • SUBJECT is_part_of SUBJECT
  • TEXT has_subject SUBJECT

Examples:

  • ASTROLOGY
  • ASTRONOMY
    • hay’a (4-part division)
    • hay’a (general astronomy)
    • mīqāt
    • qibla determination
    • taqwīm
  • ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTS
    • astrolabes
    • celestial globes/armillary spheres
    • equatoria
    • observational
    • quadrants
      • sundials
  • ASTRONOMICAL TABLES (ZĪJES)
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • COSMOLOGY-philosophical
  • COSMOLOGY-religious
  • GEOGRAPHY-mathematical
  • GEOGRAPHY-terrestrial phenomena (hay’at al-arḍ)
  • MATHEMATICS
    • algebra
    • arithmetic
      • arithmetic tables
      • basic arithmetic
      • number theory
    • geometry
      • conic sections
      • Euclidean constructions
      • general geometry
    • mensuration
    • inheritance (farā’iḍ)
    • magic squares
    • spherics
    • trigonometry
  • OPTICS
  • TECHNOLOGY
    • mechanical devices
    • military
    • navigation
  • PHILOSOPHY
    • metaphysics/ilâhiyyât
    • natural philosophy/tabî‘iyyât
    • epistemology/tasawwur and tasdîq
    • philosophy of mind/‘ilm al-nafs
    • ethics/akhlâq
    • politics/siyâsa
    • logic/mantiq
    • dialectic/âdâb al-bahth, ‘ilm al-munâzara
    • philosophy of language/‘ilm al-wad‘, ‘ilm al-balâgha, usûl al-fiqh
    • multiple subjects
    • other
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