Cypher examples for use in Neo4j Browser

1) List of all titles for an author. This should include variant versions for a title.

MATCH (texts:TEXT)-[was_created_by]->(author:PERSON)
WHERE author.name_translit = "Šihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Rajab ibn Ṭaybuġā al-Majdī al-Šāfiʿī"
RETURN author, texts

2) List of all witnesses for a title (the list should distinguish which witnesses go with a particular title version)

MATCH (witnesses:WITNESS)-[is_part_of]->(title:TEXT)
WHERE title.label = "Risāla fī al-barāhīn ʿalā masāʾil al-jabr wa-ʾl-muqābala"
RETURN title, witnesses

3) List of all commentaries and super-commentaries on a given title

MATCH (texts:TEXT)-[rel:is_commentary_on*]->(primary:TEXT)
WHERE primary.label = "Kitāb al-Išārāt wa-ʾl-tanbīhāt"
RETURN primary, texts

4) List of all authors who wrote in connection with a particular title (commentaries, super-commentaries)

MATCH (authors:PERSON)<-[was_created_by]-(commentaries:TEXT)-[rel:is_commentary_on*]->(primary:TEXT)
WHERE primary.label = "Kitāb al-Išārāt wa-ʾl-tanbīhāt" 
RETURN primary, commentaries, authors

5) List of all people who had other “roles” associated with a title (e.g. copyists , owners, patrons, teachers, students, etc.)

• currently no specialised interface (PERSON -*- TITLE)

6) Bring up people associated with a particular title (not just one huge list of people, but be able to distinguish author, student, teacher)

• see 5)?

7) Bring up people associated with a particular witness (not just one huge list of people, but be able to distinguish owner, say, from commentator)

• currently no specialised interface (PERSON -*- WITNESS)

8) Bring up all the works dedicated to a particular “patron” (e.g., Ulugh Beg)

• possible with OpenMind?, Drupal and Popoto (TEXT was-dedicated-to PERSON)

9) Bring up all owners of a particular codex

• possible with OpenMind?, Drupal and Popoto (PERSON <was-owned-by CODEX)

10) Bring up all codices owned by a single person

• possible with OpenMind?, Drupal and Popoto (CODEX was-owned-by PERSON)

11) Create a Table of contents for a particular codex

• list of witnesses possible with OpenMind?, Drupal and Popoto (WITNESS part-of CODEX)

12) Bring up all works studied in a madrasa (institution event)

13) Search for specific words in incipits, explicits and colophons

• full text search necessary

14) Find copying dates in a certain range