The principal event of this day (and the only one we will model) is the burial of Samuel's deceased uncle Robert. As with our previous funeral, the event is modelled as a topic with a participation association which lists the known attendees. In this case, Robert Pepys as the deceased, Samuel and his father as mourners and Mr. Taylor and Mr. Turner as officiating in one respect or another. Interestingly Samuel says that Mr. Taylor "buried" his uncle and Mr. Turner spoke a funeral sermon. In this association, I have modelled both roles as "priest", however, I would happily receive guidance on more specific role types.
New and updated topic map files:
Family relationships ontology.
Posted by Kal at July 15, 2004 05:37 PMActually, I think you want *less* specific role types, rather than more specific ones. My experience has been that associations and even more so roles should have as general types as possible. So I would make it something like "officiator", which would work nicely for other church seremonies as well, but wouldn't fail to work in, say, a mosque. (Not that Pepys ever entered one, but still.)
Posted by: Lars Marius Garshol at July 16, 2004 09:22 AM