July 12, 2004

Pepys-Map: 4th July 1661

The events described by this diary entry are:

1) Samuel visits the theatre to see a performance of "Clarcilla". A combination
of the annotations on the pepysdiary.com site and some quick googling shows
that this is a play (not an opera), performed by the theatre company of
Sir Thomas Killigrew, also known as the "King's Company".

2) Samuel calls on his father

3) Samuel visits the Royal Exchange

4) Samuel goes to the Mitre tavern with his uncle William Wight. The
Mitre is typed as a "tavern" which is a subclass of "building"
which is in turn a subclass of "place". The location of the Mitre
is given in the pepysdiary.com annotations as Fenchurch Street.
Fenchurch Street is modelled as a "thoroughfare" and the location
of the Mitre is given by a "located-on" association.



[the-mitre : tavern = "The Mitre"

  @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/910.php"]

[fenchurch-st : thoroughfare = "Fenchurch Street"]

located-on(the-mitre : place, fenchurch-st : route)

5) Samuel and William discuss the fact that Samuel's father has travelled to
the Pepys' farm at Brampton. This implies and event of John Pepys travelling
to Brampton.

6) Samuel and Mr Batersby (also known as John Battersby) the apothecary
discuss Samuel's uncle's haemmoroids (I wonder just how "merry" Sam
had to be to get on to this topic of conversation!).

New and updated topic map files:

Topic map for this entry.

Family relationships ontology.

Core diary ontology.

People in the diary.

Places in the diary.

Posted by Kal at July 12, 2004 08:30 PM
Comments

This is really cool! I recently read a biography of Pepys and found the whole diary fascinating, and doing a TM of it is an intriguing idea.

One thing you may find useful is the #INCLUDE directive that's proposed for LTM 1.3. Officially, the OKS only implements LTM 1.2, but we found #INCLUDE so useful that we've added it in advance. You may want to do the same. :)

Posted by: Lars Marius Garshol at July 13, 2004 03:48 PM

That would definitely help reduce the amount of typing needed to "import" ontology topics into the entry topic maps.

I'll have to implement it in the TM4J LTM parser too of course ;)

Posted by: Kal at July 13, 2004 05:49 PM