Topic maps can be thought of as a much more powerful form of index. A topic map enables you to identify the key subjects in a domain and link those subjects together in typed relationships as well as make references to electronic resources that provide more information about the subject. A more full description of topic maps can be found here.
This topic map of Pepy's diary is inspired by Phil Gyford's Ontopia's LTM syntax, a text-based notation which is considerably easier to write (and read!) than the standard XML-based XTM syntax. For viewing the files, I recommend using Ontopia's Omnigator which you can download and use for free.
The Pepys-Map is a topic map of the people, places and events described in the famous 17th Century diaries of Samuel Pepys.
This round-up topic map covers all of the entries from June 1661 through to March 1662. You can either download the full XTM representation of Pepys-Map or browse the HTML rendition of Pepys-Map online.
Two more entries posted today.
In the entry for 1st April 1662, there is a sequence of events worth noting for the way in which the temporal relationships are modelled. The sequence starts when Pepys, Paulina Montagu and others attend a performance of "The Maid in the Mill". During the performance, Paulina Montagu is taken ill, so Pepys takes her to the Grange (a nearby tavern) where she "did what she had a mind to", and then the pair return to the play. This gives us the following events:
(1) is the wrapper event that events (2) - (4) all occur during, but (4) can be said to occur after the end of (2), so we have the following event relationships:
New and updated topic maps
Topic map for 1st April 1662
Topic map for 2nd April 1662
Culture in the diary
Dates in the diary
People in the diary
Places in the diary
Lots more entries uploaded today which takes us to the end of March and finally gets me caught up again. Yay!
Watch this space for the end-of-month roundup...
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 21st March 1662
Topic map for 22nd March 1662
Topic map for 23rd March 1662
Topic map for 24th March 1662
Topic map for 25th March 1662
Topic map for 26th March 1662
Topic map for 27th March 1662
Topic map for 28th March 1662
Topic map for 29th March 1662
Topic map for 30th March 1662
Topic map for 31st March 1662
Core ontology for the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
5 more entries uploaded today, with no major ontology changes.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 16th March 1662
Topic map for 17th March 1662
Topic map for 18th March 1662
Topic map for 19th March 1662
Topic map for 20th March 1662
Another big batch update today. The only new addition to the ontology is a new event type "Arrest" with participation roles "Accused" and "Accuser", used for the capture or arrest of individuals. Accuser role is played by the one bringing the charge.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 8th March 1662
Topic map for 9th March 1662
Topic map for 10th March 1662
Topic map for 11th March 1662
Topic map for 12th March 1662
Topic map for 13th March 1662
Topic map for 14th March 1662
Topic map for 15th March 1662
Core ontology for the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Five new entries posted today.
The only new addition to the ontology is the creation of a new event type 'Vote of Parliament' which is used to record a vote in the House of Parliament.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 3rd March 1662
Topic map for 4th March 1662
Topic map for 5th March 1662
Topic map for 6th March 1662
Topic map for 7th March 1662
Core ontology for the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Entries posted for 1st and 2nd March 1662.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 1st March 1662
Topic map for 2nd March 1662
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Places in the diary.
The Pepys-Map is a topic map of the people, places and events described in the famous 17th Century diaries of Samuel Pepys.
This round-up topic map covers all of the entries from June 1661 through to February 1662. You can either download the full XTM representation of Pepys-Map or browse the HTML rendition of Pepys-Map online,
Three more days entries posted today, taking us to the end of February 1662.
Events modelled for 26th February 1662 :
For 27th February 1662 :
Finally, for 28th February 1662:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 26th February 1662.
Topic map for 27th February 1662.
Topic map for 28th February 1662.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
In today's entry there is just one new addition to the ontology. The events modelled are as follows:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 25th February 1662.
Core ontology for the diary.
Two more entries posted today. The entry for 23rd February 1662 is quite short with only two events:
The entry for 24th February 1662 models the following events:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 23rd February 1662
Topic map for 24th February 1662
Places in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
Two more entries posted today, both of which introduce new items to the ontology.
The entry for 21st February records the fact that Sam receives 80l. from Jaspar Trice. This is modelled as a "payment" event, with Samuel playing the role of recipient and Jaspar Trice playing the role of "payer". The sum paid is recorded as an occurrence of type "value" (previously used to record the value of items) on the payment event topic itself. So we have:
[event-16620221-04 : payment = "Samuel receives a payment from Jasper Trice (21st February 1662)";"16620221-04"]
occurs(event-16620221-04 : event, event-16620221-03 : during)
participation(event-16620221-04 : event,
samuel-pepys : recipient,
jasper-trice : payer)
{event-16620221-04, value, [[80l.]]}
In the entry for 22nd February 1662 we learn that a group of five men have been sent to Newgate Prison for the murder of a tanner in Stoke Newington. The murder itself is modelled as a new event of type "murder", with the alleged murderers playing the role "accused", the tanner playing the role "victim" and the place "Stoke Newington" playing the role "scene". A more generalised event type of "crime" has also been created and both the new "murder" event type and the existing "theft" event type have been made subclasses of it.
[event-16620222-11 : murder = "Murder of a tanner in Newington";"16620222-11"] occurs(event-16620222-11 : event, event-16620222-10 : end) participation(event-16620222-11 : event, thomas-wentworth : accused, john-belasyse : accused, henry-belasyse : accused, edward-sackville : accused, charles-sackville : accused, unamed-tanner : victim, newington : scene)
The gaoling of the five men is recorded as a separate event of type "imprisonment" with the murder event playing the role "charge" (meaning that the charge on which the men are imprisoned is for the crime described by the murder event); the men play the role "imprisoned" and "Newgate Prison" plays the role "gaol".
[event-16620222-10 : imprisonment = "Imprisonment of the Sackvilles, Belasyses and Thomas Wentworth on a charge of murder (22nd February 1662)";"16620222-10"] occurs(event-16620222-10 : event, today : end) participation(event-16620222-10 : event, thomas-wentworth : imprisoned, john-belasyse : imprisoned, henry-belasyse : imprisoned, edward-sackville : imprisoned, charles-sackville : imprisoned, newgate : gaol, event-16620222-11 : charge)
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 21st February 1662
Topic map for 22nd February 1662
Core ontology for the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Three more entries posted today. No major ontology changes or new entities added.
Topic map for 18th February 1662.
Topic map for 19th February 1662.
Topic map for 20th February 1662.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Another big batch update covering the period from 5th February 1662 to 17th February 1662.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 5th February 1662.
Topic map for 6th February 1662.
Topic map for 7th February 1662.
Topic map for 8th February 1662.
Topic map for 9th February 1662.
Topic map for 10th February 1662.
Topic map for 11th February 1662.
Topic map for 12th February 1662.
Topic map for 13th February 1662.
Topic map for 14th February 1662.
Topic map for 15th February 1662.
Artifacts in the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Events modelled in 3rd February 1662:
Events for 4th February 1662:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 3rd February 1662.
Topic map for 4th February 1662.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Events recorded in the topic map for 1st February 1662 are:
This entry shows some interesting event relationships. Penn receives news from Sir Edward Montagu by letter, the subject of this "correspondence-event" is the "Destruction of the enemy fleet at Algiers". This destruction is itself an event and is then used as the subject role player in an event-subject association for the event representing the correspondence from Montagu to Penn; the event representing the passing of this news from Penn to Pepys; and for the event representing the passing of the news from Pepys to Lady Montagu. Thus we have a single anchor that ties together all of the events allowing the relationship between them to be shown more clearly in the topic map.
Additionally there is a cause-effect relationship between the discussion between Penn and Pepys on the subject of Penn's son and the letter written by Samuel to Dr. Fairbother on the subject of Hezekiah Burton.
The entry for 2nd February 1662 is more straightforward:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 1st February 1662.
Topic map for 2nd February 1662.
The Pepys-Map is a topic map of the people, places and events described in the famous 17th Century diaries of Samuel Pepys.
This round-up topic map covers all of the entries from June 1661 through to January 1662. You can either download the full XTM representation of Pepys-Map or browse the HTML rendition of Pepys-Map online,
Two more entries posted today which takes us to the end of January 1662. The entries are both relatively short and do not involve many events. The entry for 30th January 1662 mentions that the day is a fast-day in memory of Charles I. To model this, I have added a new event of type "fast".
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 30th January 1662.
Topic map for 31st January 1662.
Final catch-up post with another 8 entries covered today.
Hopefully over the coming weeks I'll be able to get back to a once-a-day or every-other-day publishing schedule.
Watch out for the January batch update during the coming week!
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 22nd Janaury 1662
Topic map for 23rd Janaury 1662
Topic map for 24th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 25th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 26th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 27th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 28th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 29th Janaury 1662
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
More catch up!
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 15th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 16th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 17th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 18th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 19th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 20th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 21st Janaury 1662
Artifacts in the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
First of the "catch-up" posts today. The main changes ontologically is in the expression of the temporal relationships between events as mentioned in an earlier post. I intend to expand on this in more detail at a later date.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 3rd Janaury 1662
Topic map for 4th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 5th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 6th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 7th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 8th Janaury 1662
Topic map for 9th Janaury 1662
Core ontology of the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
The Pepys-Map is a topic map of the people, places and events described in the famous 17th Century diaries of Samuel Pepys.
This round-up topic map covers all of the entries from June 1661 through to December 1661. You can either download the full XTM representation of Pepys-Map or browse the HTML rendition of Pepys-Map online,
Sorry for the brief lull in the postings - and the late arrival of the December update.
Normal service will be resumed ASAP
Todays posting is a catch up of the new year period.
Starting from the entries for 1662, I've chosen to make the ordering of events a bit more explicit in the topic map. Rather than relying on sort names to imply an ordering between the events that occur on a day, I now use the start-after role to indicate a sequence of one event following another.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 27th December 1661.
Topic map for 28th December 1661.
Topic map for 29th December 1661.
Topic map for 30th December 1661.
Topic map for 31st December 1661.
Topic map for 1st January 1662.
Topic map for 2nd January 1662.
Core ontology in the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
A catch up over the christmas period, with entries posted for 22nd to 26th of December.
One point worth noting is that the PSIs I am using for dates are based on the Gregorian calender, meaning that they roll over from December 1661 to January 1662 in this period. I am using the "common" convention of the new year starting on January 1st, rather than the ecclesiastical year start.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 22nd December 1661,
Topic map for 23rd December 1661,
Topic map for 24th December 1661,
Topic map for 25th December 1661,
Topic map for 26th December 1661,
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Three more entries posted.
For 19th December 1661, the following events are modelled:
For 20th December 1661, the following events are modelled:
Finally, for 21st December 1661 we have:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 19th December 1661
Topic map for 20th December 1661
Topic map for 21st December 1661
Core ontology for the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Four entries posted today - although all are relatively short entries.
Events for 15th December 1661 are as follows:
For 16th December 1661:
For 17th December:
For 18th December:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 15th December 1661
Topic map for 16th December 1661
Topic map for 17th December 1661
Topic map for 18th December 1661
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Two more entries posted today.
In the entry for 13th December 1661, the following events are modelled:
The entry for 14th December 1661 is quite short and only the following events are modelled:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 13th December 1661.
Topic map for 14th December 1661.
In the entry for 12th December 1661 the following events are modelled:
In the course of writing up today's topic map, I discovered (thanks to my birthday present to myself of the L&M Companion volume) that I have made a couple of errors in the interpretation of the diary.
Firstly, "The Wardrobe" is most likely a reference to the headquarters of the Kings Great Wardrobe which was off Puddle Dock Hill and not in Wardrobe Court. Secondly, Pepys frequent business with the Lord Privy Seal is as a result of him acting as deputy for Sir Edward Montagu who holds the position of clerk in the Privy Office. So in fact, when Pepys works with the Lord Privy Seal, it is more likely on Privy Office business than on Navy business.
To address the first issue, I have created a new topic representing the headquarters of the Wardrobe at Puddle Dock Hill. The second issue raises the problem of the names of certain events which may be misleading. There is also the issue of making retrospective changes to the entries made so far. My feeling is that the best way to do this is to consolidate the entries into a single topic map and then use either tolog or a TM4J application of some sort to manipulate topics as required. More thought is needed on this.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 12th December 1661,
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Three more entries posted today for 9th, 10th, and 11th December 1661. As there are no real new modelling issues to confront in these entries, I just provide the links to the new and updated topic maps.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 9th December 1661
Topic map for 10th December 1661
Topic map for 11th December 1661
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
The first entry covered today is for 7th December 1661 and requires the introduction of a new event type. The events modelled are:
For 8th December, the following events are modelled:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 7th December 1661.
Topic map for 8th December 1661.
Core ontology for the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
In the entry for 6th December 1661, the following events are modelled:
Topic map for 6th December 1661
Artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Three more topic maps posted today covering the period from 3rd to 5th December 1661.
Events modelled for 3rd December 1661
Events for 4th December 1661:
Events for 5th December 1661:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 3rd December 1661.
Topic map for 4th December 1661.
Topic map for 5th December 1661.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
Although short, the entry for 2nd December 1661 results in quite a few separate events.
You might notice that in some cases the travelling has been modelled in more detail than in other cases. For example, Sam's return home from Mr. Savill is modelled as having two legs, but this is in some way necessary to model his meeting Henry Moore (the alternative being to simply model the meeting with Moore as being an event that occurred during the journey from Savill's to Pepyp's home). On the other hand the trio of Clement Sankey, Mary Archer and Samuel Pepys must have travelled *back* from the Opera in order to participate in the final dining-event at Pepys' home, however I have chosen not to model this particular travelling event at all as the fact that they all changed location can be deduced from the location of the performance event and the subsequent dining event and we have no additional information (such as mode of transport) to convey.
This question of the level of detail of the modelling is something that occurs in many places in the work on the diary. Another good example is the modelling of event sequencing. Right now there is an implicit event sequencing that uses sort names for the events so that they sort into (approximately) chronological order. A more explicit way to model this would be to specify the start and end points of events relative to each other (e.g. event A starts after event B). At the moment, the choice to not model this information is a question of balancing the additional manual effort against the additional information conveyed. Some helpful tooling could quite possibly change my mind...
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 2nd December 1661.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Places in the diary.
In today's posting for 1st December 1661, the following events are modelled:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 1st December 1661.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
The full topic map for the Pepys Diary up to the end of November 1661 is now available for download as a 3.3MB XTM file or browsing online.
Final entry for November. The following events are modelled for 30th November 1661:
The monthly roundup will go up soon - it comes out at 3.3 meg of XTM (yikes!). Watch this blog!
New and update topic maps:
Topic map for 30th November 1661.
Two more entries posted.
The events for 28th November 1661 are modelled as follows:
I did not attempt to model the reported news that Montagu recaptured an "Englishman" (a ship ?) belonging to a Mr. Parker.
The events for 29th November 1661 are:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 28th November 1661.
Topic map for 29th November 1661.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
In today's entry, the following events are modelled:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 27th November 1661.
Core ontology for the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Two more entries posted today.
In the entry for 25th November 1661, the following events are modelled:
Events for 26th November 1661 are:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 25th November 1661.
Topic map for 26th November 1661.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Two more entries posted today.
In the entry for 23rd November 1661 the following events are modelled:
For 24th November 1661, the following events are modelled:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 23rd November 1661.
Topic map for 24th November 1661.
Core ontology for the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
The entry for 22nd November 1661 seems to involve a lot of financial transactions. Presumably such transactions occur quite frequently without mention, but in this entry Pepys gives us some idea of the costs of his life-style. The events modelled are:
Also in this entry a new maid, Sarah, is hired by Elizabeth Pepys, This office-holding event is modelled in the pepys-diary-people.ltm topic map.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 22nd November 1661
People in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
Another big batch update as I try and catch up. This time 9 new topic maps uploaded going from 13th November to 21st November Again there are no major modelling issues here, although a new event type, "Sleeping" was introduced to model Sam falling asleep in church...
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 13th November 1661
Topic map for 14th November 1661
Topic map for 15th November 1661
Topic map for 16th November 1661
Topic map for 17th November 1661
Topic map for 18th November 1661
Topic map for 19th November 1661
Topic map for 20th November 1661
Topic map for 21st November 1661
Core ontology for the diary.
Artifacts in the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
I'm posting entries for five days from 8th to 12th November 1661 inclusive.
There are no new modelling challenges raised by any of these new entries.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 8th November 1661.
Topic map for 9th November 1661.
Topic map for 10th November 1661.
Topic map for 11th November 1661.
Topic map for 12th November 1661.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Posting two more entries today.
Events for 6th November 1661 are:
Events for 7th November 1661 are:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 6th November 1661.
Topic map for 7th November 1661.
Artifacts in the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
I've fallen a little bit behind with the topic maps due to travelling.
The events modelled for 5th November 1661 are as follows:
In addition to posting this entry, I've begun to make changes to the representation of marriage. Up to now, marriage has been represented as a simple association like:
married-to(samuel-pepys : spouse, elizabeth-pepys : spouse)
Marriage is now modelled as an event, allowing us to specify the temporal bounds on the marriage and to use the marriage as a subject in its own right.
I've made use of scoped names to present different ways of presenting and indexing the marriage event. e.g.
[thomas-katherine-fenner-marriage = "Marriage of Thomas Fenner and Katherine Kite" = "Marriage to Katherine Kite";"Fenner, Thomas;marriage to Katherine Kite" / thomas-fenner = "Marriage to Thomas Fenner";"Kite, Katherine;marriage to Thomas Fenner" / katherine-kite] participation( thomas-katherine-fenner-marriage : event, katherine-kite : spouse, thomas-fenner : spouse )
This is particularly useful for scoping the married name of women. e.g.
[katherine-kite : woman = "Katherine Kite"; "Kite, Katherine" = "Katherine Fenner";"Fenner, Katherine" / thomas-katherine-fenner-marriage @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/750.php"]
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 5th November 1661.
Family relationships ontology.
People in the diary.
Two more days of events posted today. The events modelled for 3rd November are:
For 4th November, the following events are modelled:
New and updated topic maps :
Topic map for 3rd November 1661
Topic map for 4th November 1661
Core ontology for the diary.
Culture in the diary.
People in the diary.
Today's entry introduces one new event type and the problems of the unknown. There is also an editorial note on names.
The events modelled for this entry are:
On the subject of names, it is a common problem with the diary that multiple spellings of names exist. For example in today's entry, the new Comptroller is referred to by Pepys as "Sir John Minnes", but by Latham and Matthews as "Sir John Mennes". Having recently purchased Robert Latham's index to the diaries, I am proposing to now use the head name as the principle display/sort name for all people and places covered by the index. This means that I have some editorial work to do, particularly as Latham uses women's maiden name as the head entry in the index where possible, but it should hopefully lead to a more consistent approach to naming and to the specification of sort names.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 2nd November 1661.
Core ontology for the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Today's entry has the following events modelled:
The diary mentions that Penn the younger is "lately come from Oxford". I wonder if this is because it is the end of term or if it is as a result of his expulsion (he was expelled from Christ Church for being a Quaker). If it is the latter, then it might be quite good to add this as another event.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 1st November 1661.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
The full Pepys topic map up to the end of October 1661 is now posted.
You can browse the topic map or download the XTM file (2.6M).
Comments are welcome!
The events modelled for 31st October 1661 are as follows:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 31st October 1661.
Artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Four more entries posted today.
The events modelled for 25th October 1661 are:
For 26th October the modelled events are:
For 27th October:
Finally, for 28th October:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 25th October 1661
Topic map for 27th October 1661
Topic map for 28th October 1661
Topic map for 29th October 1661
Core ontology for the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Two more entries posted today.
In the entry for 23rd October 1661, the following events are modelled:
In this day's entry, Samuel also mentions that the workers at the Navy Office have been invited to the Lord Mayor's dinner. At present I am not sure of the best way to model this. It could be a form of correspondence event, although the way it is described I think that it might be second-hand news received from Slingsby (who is Sam's boss at the Navy Office). I've flagged this as a TODO in the LTM topic map for today.
The entry for 24th October 1661 is modelled as follows:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 23rd October 1661
Topic map for 24th October 1661
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Entries for 21st and 22nd October posted today.
Events modelled for 21st October:
For 22nd October, the following events are modelled:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 21st October 1661.
Topic map for 22nd October 1661.
Core ontology for the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Three new entries mapped today with one new concept added.
The diary entry for 18th October gives details of Pepys' self-treatment for his swollen groin. To model this I have created a new type of event, "medication-event" which should typically have role players "patient", "applied-by" (not necessarily a doctor, as in this case) and "medication". I have created a subclass of medication "poultice" to cover this particular treatment, and then made an instance of this class ("bran and vinegar poultice"). The entry for the diary event is:
[event-16611018-06 : medication-event
= "Samuel applies a poultice to his tumor (18th October 1661)";"16611018-06"]
occurs(event-16611018-06 : event, today : on)
participation(event-16611018-06 : event,
samuel-pepys : patient,
samuel-pepys : applied-by,
bran-poultice : medication)
[bran-poultice : poultice = "A poultice of bran and vinegar"]
{bran-poultice, description,
[[...a poultice of a good handful of bran with half a pint of vinegar and a pint of
water boiled till it be thick, and then a spoonful of honey put to it and so spread
in a cloth and laid to it]] } / samuel-pepys
Note: the definitions for the medication-event topic type and the patient and applied-by role types are contained in the pepys-diary-ontology.ltm file. The definitions for the medication topic type and the poultice topic type are in the pepys-diary-culture.ltm file.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 18th October 1661.
Topic map for 19th October 1661.
Topic map for 20th October 1661.
Core ontology for the diary.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
A batch update of missed posts from this week, though most of the entries were quite short. A few new people an places have been introduced. One interesting example is that of "The Exchequer" which, like many government functions is the name of both a building and an institution. To avoid the Topic Naming Constraint which requires that two topics with the same name in the same scope get merged, the building and institution are modelled as follows:
[exchequer-institution : institution = "The Exchequer (institution)";"Exchequer, The;institution" = "The Exchequer" / institution @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/290.php"]
[exchequer-building : building = "The Exchequer (building)";"Exchequer, The;building" = "The Exchequer" / building @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/242.php"]
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 12th October 1661
Topic map for 13th October 1661
Topic map for 14th October 1661
Topic map for 15th October 1661
Topic map for 16th October 1661
Topic map for 17th October 1661
Culture in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
A very short entry today as Pepys is suffering from a 'bruise' which keeps him in bed all day. The only event is the arrival of his brother Thomas, cousin Thomas and John Snow (a relative by marriage) for dinner which Pepys himself is not able to attend.
However, I seem to have inadvertently censored Pepys illness from yesterdays topicmap (possibly because the thought of a 'late bruise in one of my testicles' is just a bit too painful). So that has been added, with 10th October recorded as the start date.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 10th October.
Topic map for 11th October.
Posted entries for 8th 9th and 10th October today. Most of the modelling is straightforward. The only new addition is a "repairing-event" which is used to model the occassion on 9th when Samuel puts his theboro (an instrument) in to be repaired.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 8th October.
Topic map for 9th October.
Topic map for 10th October.
Core ontology for the diary.
Culture in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Two more entries posted today.
The topic map for 4th October makes use of the same merging principles used in the topic map for 3rd October to refer back to the loan of 50 pounds agreed on that day - today, the money is received by Samuel's apprentice, Will Hewer. To make it easier to model the transaction, I have introduced a topic specifically for the 50 pounds borrowed from Mr Battersby. So I have updated the borrowing-event in the topic map for 3rd October to show the 50 pounds as the "borrowed item", and have also shown it in the topic map for 4th October as the "delivered item" received by Will Hewer.
The topic map for 5th October is more straightforward. I have chosen to model Samuel's efforts to hang a model ship in his room simply as "work"...should there be a speciailised "DIY" event type I wonder :-)
New and updated topic maps:
Updated topic map for 3rd October.
Topic map for 4th October.
Topic map for 5th October.
Artifacts in the diary.
Culture in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Today's entry makes use of topic map merging to handle a reference to a previous event.
The event in question is a disucssion of the performance of Vittoria Corombona that took place on 2nd October. To make a reference to the performance event, I have simply created a topic whose subject identifier is the address of the topic created for the performance event. The reference is made using a relative URI and it assumes that the topic map for 2nd October is located in the same directory as that for 3rd October (which is the case for the archived LTM files). The result is the following LTM code:
[event-16611002-05-ref @"16611002.ltm#event-16611002-05"]
I have also made an editorial pass through the topic types defined in the core ontology file today, creating sort names that omit the indefinite article to improve the sorting in displays like Omnigator and TM4Web.
This can then be used as any other event topic. For example, we discover today that Elizabeth Batten and her son had been at the same performance. We can model this as:
[event-16611002-05-ref @"16611002.ltm#event-16611002-05"] participation(event-16611002-05-ref : event, william-batten-son : audience, elizabeth-batten : audience)
We can also use the event as the subject of the discussion event that takes place today:
[event-16611003-09 : discussion
= "Samuel discusses yesterday's performance of
'Vittoria Corombona' with the Battens (3rd October 1661)";"16611003-09"]
...
event-subject(event-16611003-09 : event, event-16611002-05-ref : subject)
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 3rd October 1661.
Core ontology for the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
The latest monthly roundup has just been uploaded to the website. The XTM file of all diary entries so far can be found here. The HTML rendition of the topic map can be entered here.
As always comments and suggestions are very welcome!
Two short entries posted today.
In the entry for 1st October, the following events are modelled:
For the 2nd October the following events are modelled:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 1st October.
Topic map for 2nd October.
Culture in the diary.
People in the diary.
The entry for 29th September is quite simple. With just four events: Samuel going to church (twice), a dinner hosted by the Pepys' and a supper hosted by the Penns.
The entry for 30th September is quite long. I have chosen to focus only on Samuel's own actions rather than the detail of the battle between the French and the Spanish, so the battle itself is referred to only by a single event using a new type 'conflict".
The rest of the days events are principally movements from one place to another, all modelled as travelling events. Samuel's first event of the day was to travel to Whitehall to meet Henry Moore, who did not turn up - hence that is modelled as a travelling-event rather than a meeting-event. Where possible in the rest of the days movements I have recorded the (approximate) start and end points and the mode of travel for each move.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 29th September.
Topic map for 30th September.
Core ontology for the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
In the entry for 27th September we find a form of gift event. Lady Montague receives grapes and melons sent by her husband and brought by Captain Country. This is modelled as a gift-event, with a new role of 'courier' added which is played by Country:
[event-16610927-05 : gift-event = "Richard Country brings exotic fruits from Sir Edward Montague (27th September 1661)";"16610927-05"] occurs(event-16610927-05 : event, today : on) participation(event-16610927-05 : event, jemima-montague : recipient, richard-country : courier, sir-edward-montague : giver, melons : gift, grapes : gift, wardrobe-court : place)
A similar form is used for the melons delivered to Samuel - although in this case the courier is not known.
The entry for 28th September is very straightforward with only four events modelled. The play "Father's Own Son" is a comedy written by John Fletcher and also known as "Monsieur Thomas".
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 27th September.
Topic map for 28th September.
Core ontology for the diary.
Culture in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
A short entry today. In which:
It is worth noting that the play is one of several collaborations by John Fletcher (already encountered as writer of 'The Tamer Tamed'), and Francis Beaumont. This is modelled in the topic map by using a single 'written-by' association with two players of the 'writer' role.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for today's entry.
Culture in the diary.
In the entry for 24th September, events modelled are:
For the 25th September, the events modelled are:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 24th September 1661
Topic map for 25th September 1661
Core ontology for the diary.
Culture in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Catching up with a number of entries missed due to a combination of slackness and being at XML Open this week. To comment on all of the files would probably be as tedious to read as it would be to write, but you can always read all of the entries on PepysDiary.com.
One interesting addition to the ontology is a pair of events. I've added a "borrowing" event with roles "borrower" and "lender". I've made the existing "loan" event a subclass of borrowing on the principle that a loan event is a borrowing event where the borrower agrees to repay some interest as well as the borrowed amount. I've also added a "hiring" event, which I have made a subclass of both "borrowing" and of "purchase" - topic maps does not restrict you to having a single class hierarchy, although this could cause problems later on so I'll plan to revisit this when I get a chance to tidy up the ontology.
Another item that will need tidying is the addition of a topic for "horse". Currently this is made a direct subclass of "creature" which puts it on the same level in the ontology as "primate". My feeling is that it is not wise to have "primate" and "horse" at the same level of the hierarchy and again, this part of the ontology will need revisting during any cleanup.
New and uploaded topic maps:
16th September
17th September
18th September
19th September
20th September
21st September
22nd September
23rd September
Artifacts in the diary.
Culture in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Today's entry is another straightforward one in modelling terms. The events modelled are:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for today's entry.
Core ontology for the diary (only a minor editorial to a comment).
Places in the diary.
Today's entry has the following events modelled:
For the moment, I have modelled the last event as a generic "recreation-event" and made the yachts the "subject" of that event. When the ontology is reviewed it might be worth seeing if there is a subclass of recreation-event that can be extracted from this perhaps "viewing-event" ?
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for today's entry.
Culture in the diary.
People in the diary.
Today's entry has a couple of interesting points to the model.
In the first event of the day, Samuel is called to his uncle's house to discuss arrangements for the burial of his Aunt Kite who died yesterday. There are two things to note here. Firstly, we don't need to model the death as an event, because that was already entered in the biographical topic map when Aunt Kite was first introduced about a week ago. Secondly, we need to model the event of Aunt Kite's funeral in advance of its occurrence. To facilitate the merging of the event information that we have from todays entry (which is scant) with information we will probably get when the funeral takes place, I have created a subject identifier for the funeral event.
The second item of note actually comes from annotations on the PepysDiary.com site. The annotations for Doctors Commons (both the map referred to from the annotations and the text of one annotation) describe the geographical location of the Doctors' Commons by the streets that form its boundary. This seemed like a good thing to model. So I have created an association type "bounded-by" and role types "bounded" for the place whose bounds are described by the association and then north-bounds, south-bounds, east-bounds and west-bounds for the four compass points (all that I need for now). The association itself is expressed as a 5-way relationship between the Doctor's Commons and the four streets that form its boundary:
bounded-by(drs-commons : bounded, great-knightrider-st : north-bounds, st-bennets-hill : east-bounds, addle-hill : west-bounds, thames-st : south-bounds)
My reason for doing this (rather than four binary relationships) is that I want the single association to capture all of the information about the boundary - in practice there can be no boundary without all of the sides being enumerated, so to my mind it doesn't make sense to have four separate partial descriptions.
I could have chosen to create a "borders-with" association, which would make sense to be modelled as four separate binary relationships as the fact that X border's Y is not dependent on the fact that X also borders Z.
The association and role types are all defined in the "places" topic map.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for today's entry.
Artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Entries for the 11th and 12th September posted today. Both entries are relatively straightforward to model. There is much discussion with regards to money owed to Tom Trice. I have classified all of this under the subject of "Robert Pepys Estate" as this is where the debt has arisen from.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 11th September
Topic map for 12th September
Culture in the diary.
Places in the diary.
The second monthly milestone in the topic mapping of Pepy's Diary has been reached! As Stuart did last month, I've created a single merged topic map for the diary to date (July and August plus a few days from June).
The zipped XTM file can found here.
Update: I've now posted HTML pages generated from the XTM file for July and August.
See the about page and the help page for more details.
Today's entry is relatively straightforward to model. The events we find are:
Also in this diary entry, a name is given for the maid mentioned on the 7th September as being hired from William Joyce. I have added a topic for this maid, Mary, and modified the topic map for 7th September to reference this topic. The start date of her employment is also recorded in a new office-holding event.
New and modified topic maps:
Topic map for today's entry.
Topic map for 7th September 1661
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Today's entry is something of an instruction in how Mondays should really be approached. The events modelled today:
New and updated topic maps :
Topic map for today's entry
Culture in the diary
Dates in the diary
People in the diary
Places in the diary
Catching up again with two entries posted today.
The entry for the 7th September introduces one modelling issue, when William Joyce arrives to discuss the hiring of one of his maids. For this, I have modelled the two offices held by the maid and made the office to be held with the Pepys as the subject for the conversation with William Joyce. Once again this makes use of the "trick" of making on event the subject of another. Another possibility would have been to model the hiring of the maid as an event in its own right.
Topic map for 7th September
Topic map for 8th September
Culture in the diary
Core ontology for the diary
Catching up with two entries today.
For 5th September, the following events are modelled:
For the 6th of September, we have:
Updated and modified topic maps:
Topic map for 4th September (fixed an incorrect reference to the PepysDiary.com site).
Topic map for 5th September.
Topic map for 6th September.
Artifacts in the diary.
Culture in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Today's entry is a relatively straightforward one. The events modelled are as follows:
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for today's entry.
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
The main event in today's entry is the christening of Catherine Montague. This is modelled using a new event type "christening" subclassed from "church-service" (although it actually takes place at the Wardrobe and not in a church).
Two other events require extensions to the ontology.
Samuel takes delivery of some furniture from Richard Howells - using the existing "purchasing" event type for this does not work as there is no exchange of money at this point.
The other event is Sam's argument with his mother. The "argument" event type is subclassed from the "discussion" event type. I've added an occurrence to this event that gives Samuel's side of the story at least.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for today.
Core ontology for the diary.
People in the diary.
The entry for today is quite a long one, although much of it describes rumour and gossip which at present we are not modelling in the topic map.
The events that are modelled are as follows:
This entry also relates two events involving Elizabeth Pepys. She meets the "Ladies of the Wardrobe", by which I have assumed Pepys means Jemima Carteret and Paulina Montague, at the Royal Exchange. She also meets Thomas Somerset, a son of Lord Somerset (and possibly the man from 30th August?) who gives her a bracelet as a gift.
New and updated files:
Topic map for today's entry.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Two entries posted today.
In the entry for 31st August, Samuel describes his visit to Bartholomew Fair. The fair is an extended event starting on 23rd August and ending on 6th September. Within the span of this event, today describes a number of separate events that involve Samuel directly. To model this, I have created one recreation-event topic for the fair itself covering the complete 23/8-6/9 timespan. Then each event that occurs at the fair is created as a "subevent" of the fair event. This requires a new association type for relationship between an encompassing event and the events that it encompasses (which I've called superevent and subevent as a shorthand).
For example a performance by dancing monkeys (no, really) at the fair is modelled as:
[event-16610831-06 : performance = "Performance by dancing monkeys at Bartholomew Fair (31st August 1661)";"16610831-06"] occurs(event-16610831-06 : event, today : on) superevent-subevent(event-16610831-06 : subevent, bartholomew-fair : superevent)
This type of relationship could also be useful for other spanning events, and could be treated as hierarchical. For example a war could be a spanning event (superevent) with each battle as an encompassed event (subevent). Then within the battle, each charge or manoeuver could be modelled as a subevent of the battle event.
Another slightly odd construct in the topic map for 31st August is the modelling of Samuel buying a bauble for each of three ladies in his company at Christ's Hospital. This is modelled as a single purchasing-event where three separate items are purchased, followed by three separate gift events, each with one of those purchased items and a different recipient:
[event-16610831-09 : purchasing-event = "Samuel buys baubles for the ladies (31st August 1661)";"16610831-09"] occurs(event-16610831-09 : event, event-16610831-07 : during) participation(event-16610831-09 : event, samuel-pepys : purchaser, bauble-1 : purchased, bauble-2 : purchased, bauble-3 : purchased) [bauble-1 : bauble = "A bauble for Jemima Carteret"] [bauble-2 : bauble = "A bauble for Paulina Montague"] [bauble-3 : bauble = "A bauble for Mlle Le Blanc"]
[event-16610831-10 : gift-event = "Samuel gives a bauble to Jemima Carteret (31st August 1661)";"16610831-10"] occurs(event-16610831-10 : event, event-16610831-07 : during) participation(event-16610831-10 : event, bauble-1 : gift, samuel-pepys : giver, jemima-carteret : recipient) etc.
In the entry for 1st September, an interesting revalation is made. The tankard that was stolen from William Penn and which Sam wrote a joke confessional for a few days ago, was actually stolen as a joke by William Batten. So we have a bit of new information to add to the theft-event that was created in the topic map for 28th August 1661. To do this, I have added a subject indicator to the original theft event so that it can be imported into the topic map for 1st September. I can then use that imported topic to create a new association and an occurrence that describes the theft in Sam's own words. Although the topic map standard does allow me to simply refer to the address of the original event topic rather than do this import trick, using a full URI subject indicator is a bit more robust and won't break if the files are moved into different relative paths (e.g. split into separate directories for each month).
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for 31st August 1661
Topic map for 1st September 1661
Modified topic map for 28th August 1661
Core ontology
Artifacts in the diary.
Culture in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
People in the diary.
Places in the diary.
TEASER: Look out for another month-end merged topic map tomorrow!
Today's entry is quite short but introduces the use of scope to distinguish between sources.
The main events of the day are:
According to the diary we know only that the play was performed at some location on Drury Street. This is modelled as a fairly light "participation" association:
participation(event-16610830-03 : event, unamed-theatre-drury-lane : place)
However, Latham & Matthews add a footnote that says that the play was most probably a performance of "Orpheus and Eurydice" at the Cockpit Theatre, performed by a company under Jean Channoveau. This gives a much richer participation association:
participation(event-16610830-03 : event, cockpit-theatre : place, orpheus-and-eurydice : performed-work, channoveaus-company : performer)
However, as Latham & Matthews is a secondary source, we may want to distinguish between that information and the information extracted from the text. So this second association is scoped, using the topic for the Latham & Masters text as a scoping topic:
participation(event-16610830-03 : event, cockpit-theatre : place, orpheus-and-eurydice : performed-work, channoveaus-company : performer) / lm-ii
Note, that up to now this approach of distinguishing secondary information from primary information has not been used. In future I intend to principally use it where secondary information contradicts the primary information. Going back through the posts and determining what really comes from the primary source is an excercise for the reader right now!
One other item of note for today's entry. On the pepysdiary.com site, "Lord Somersett" is linked to a page for a Thomas Somerset. A bit of googling and browsing of peerage websites leads me to believe that the Lord Somerset of 1661 was an Edward Somerset, not Thomas. I have used Edward in my representation of this event.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic map for today's entry.
People in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
Culture in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Today's entry is relatively straightforward. The following events are modelled.
New and updated topic maps:
Catching up with three diary entries.
One new use of the event-based structure has turned up in these entries. In the entry for 27th August, Samuel has a discussion with Lady Montague about the preparations Ned Montague is making for a journey to be undertaken by Sir Edward Montague. In particular, that Ned has spent some 5000 pounds on this. This is modelled as a discussion event, the subject of which is a purchasing event where the purchased item is the future journey which is itself represented as a travelling event.
A similar structure is used in the entry for 28th August where Samuel plays a prank on Sir William Penn by forging a letter which purports to be from the thief who stole a tankard from Penn recently. Hence the theft event is made the subject of the corresepondence event that represents the sending of the letter.
New and updated files:
Topic Map for 26th August
Topic Map for 27th August
Topic Map for 28th August
People in the diary.
Artifacts in the diary.
Places in the diary.
Dates in the diary.
Culture in the diary.
Today is a Sunday, so its off to church twice with dinner in between. Then the Pepys are visited by Lady Batten and an unidentified daughter. Later, John Pepys arrives and John and Samuel resolve what to do about Paulina. The two men then go to William Wight's for supper before walking home together as far as St. Pauls where each go their separate ways.
New and updated files:
Family relationships ontology.
In today's entry Samuel works in the office, and then visits Sir William Batten to visit a ‘strange creature ’ (a primate of some species) from brought Guinea by Captain Holmes. He then visits Richard Ford with Colonel Slingsby to dicuss the rental of Ford's house by the Navy Office (it is adjacent to the current premises). He is visited at home by Henry Isham, with whom he drinks in the Mitre. A commended performance of Hamlet is followed by more drinking with a John Spong in the Sampson.
Quite a bit of development today. I've added a grounds-of association, as we seem to be having a number of places which are in the grounds of another (St Paul's Churchyard, Hatfield House vinyard, etc.). I've also created creature and a primate subclass for the strange creature, and a generic place-of-origin association which is intended to cover everything from nationality to object source.
New and updated topic map files:
Two forward entries today to match the retrospective entries yesterday.
On 22nd August 1661 Samuel works at the Privy Seal, attends a family gathering at his uncle Fenner's (popping out for a drink with his father and uncle Wight), attends church, and then dines at his uncle Wight's.
On 23rd August 1661 Samuel visits his father, with whom he visits Dr Williams, where they have a discussion (I think this probably about Robert Pepys' will, but this is not stated explicity). They go on to Tom Trice's, who they take to an alehouse. There they discuss and sign the will of Robert Pepys, and leave to swear this infront of a judge (in an unnamed location). They return to the alehouse for a while, and then Samuel and Dr Williams dine at a cookshop. Finally, Samuel goes to William Joyce's to meet his wife, who he takes to the Opera.
New and updated topic map files:
I've started working backwards as well as forward, so here's 29th June and 30th June 1661.
On the 29th, Samuel receives a letter from the Duke of York (James Stuart, the brother of the King), complaining about a delay in a fleet. As a result, Pepys goes with William Penn and William Batten to Deptford, where he examines the boats. He then goes to a tavern, the Bell, and meets friends (from ‘our old club’) with whom he stays and drinks; James Chetwind recommends a book.
On the 30th Samuel and wife go to church, and then dine at home. Samuel then goes with ‘Sir Williams both’ to Whitehall where they meet the Duke of York, and relay to him the cause of the above delays. Pepys then walks in Gray's Inn Walk, and appreciates the ladies.
Pepys also comments on his wife being unwell, the Portuguese Ambassador visiting the King prior to returning to Portugal (the Queen, Catherine of Braganza is in Portugal and arrangements are being made for her coming over), and on his father going to Brampton to visit the ill Robert Pepys.
22nd August later today.
The letter from the Duke is the ‘cause’ of some subsequent events, but it occurs to me that we should break the cause-result association into more fine-grained subclasses. I can think of three types of cause and effect:
Does this seem a reasonable or necessary breakdown? Comments on a popup, please.
New and updated topic map files:
I'm back; Kal and I have decided to alternate weeks of updating to lighten the load.
In today's entry, the following events are modelled:
I created an event type of engagement; this is for the whole period, the event of being engaged. The actual bended-knee occasion would be a proposal event; I haven't created this yet, as we have no details of it.
New and updated topic map files:
Just two working events today. Pepys works at the Navy Office and then at home.
There is mention in the diary of the Navy Office reaching an agreement with a neighbour to the office, but there is not really enough detail to warrant another event.
New and modified topic maps:
Quite a long diary entry for today.
Samuel spends the first half of the day working at the Navy Office, and then has an errand to run - he has to get the Lord Privy Seal to seal a document for the Lord Chancellor. The errand takes up the best part of the day with Pepys travelling to the chambers of the Privy Seal; the Lord Chancellor's home at Worcester House; and then to the Lord Privy Seal's house at Chelsea (by way of the pub, of course). I have modelled the errand itself as a "Work" event, with the various journies and carousing modelled as separate events that occur during the work event.
Samuel's journey home is eventful too. He has to walk from Chelsea, and on the way meets Mr and Mrs Marsh and they all go drinking together on their way to Westminster.
Other events described in today's entry do not involve Samuel directly. The Montague's children are all summoned to a dinner by their mother, Elizabeth Pepys dines with her father-in-law, and Katherine Fenner dies.
New and updated topic maps:
Today's entry introduces one retrospective event and a small problem (cleared up!).
The retrospective event is the gift of a book made by Henry Moore to Samuel when they met on 7th August. This is easily accomodated, and I have created the event in today's topic map - so that the focus of each topic map is on the content of the diary entry, not on the happenings of the particular day.
The small issue is one of terminology. Up to now I have used the term "Book" to mean a particular text. So, the "Shorter Oxford English Dictionary" and Latham & Matthews annotated diaries were typed as "Book". However, in today's entry I want to record the fact that Sam reads the text "Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity", and that he was given a copy of the text as a book. Note the change of terms: the term "Text" is now used to refer to the abstract written work, and "Book" is now reserved for an individual copy of a text.
Much of the rest of the day's entry is straightforward enough. One new person is introduced, Dr Tom Pepys, but I also have added a topic for Richard Hooker (author of the text that Sam is reading).
New and updated maps:
Cultural artifacts in the diary
Today's entry introduces one minor new ontology requirement and a few new people and places. The events described by the topic map are:
Today's entry also mentions some trouble that Sam is having with the transportation of some posessions of Sir Edward Montague. He says that he has found out where the shipment is, but does not indicate if this is the result of a letter or a message received from someone else. Because there is no concrete event to model, this information is ommitted from the topic map.
I also corrected a misnomer of the location of the performance of 'The Wits' in the file 16610815.ltm. The correct name is simply "the Opera" rather than "the Royal Opera" that I had previously.
New and updated topic maps for today's entry:
Corrected topic map for 15th August 1661.
Cultural artificats in the diary
Much of today's entry describes the epidemic that is sweeping London. In the topic map I have chosen to ignore the deaths related by Samuel Pepys with the exception of the death and funeral of Tom Whitton. The events documented in the topic map are:
The final sentence of the diary relates Samuel's concern for his Aunt Fenner who he says is on the point of death. However as there is little other information here, this is not modelled in the topic map.
Todays new and updated files:
Another busy day described by today's diary entry.
New and updated topic maps:
Topic Map for 14th August 1661
Cultural artifacts in the diary
I'm back from holidays (very nice, thank you...) and back into the diary again. Ta muchly to Stuart for his stewardship of the blog over the last couple of weeks and for getting some of the much needed tidying up done...I owe you a beer or four!
So, back to business. In today's entry:
New and updated topic map files:
Cultural artifacts in the diary.
In today's entry, the following events are modelled:
New and updated topic map files:
Another missed entry yesterday — this time gin is not to blame, just a very busy day. So today's blog covers both 12th and 11th August.
In yesterday's entry Samuel goes to church twice; once locally and once in Clerkenwell, where he sees and comments upon the Butler sisters. He then walks in the grounds of Gray's Inn where he meets Ned Pickering, who tells him of the King's hunt the previous day. He dines at his father's and returns home.
In today's entry after spending the morning in the office, Samuel receives news that Lord Hinchingbroke (Edward Montagu junior) is unwell; he goes to visit him and finds him extremely unwell, apparently in fear of smallpox. Samuel himself is concerned that it is a result of fruit he gave him on Saturday 10th. Samuel dines with Jemima Montagu, and learns that Edward Montagu senior (Lord Sandwich) is also unwell. Finally, he dines with Sir Thomas Crew.
I had to incorpotate the map for 10th August, and provide a subject indicator for the eating of the fruit, so that a reference can be made to it in respect of the illness. As a result the map for that entry has also been updated. In the update, I have also separated out Lord Hinchingbroke from the four unknown children of Lady Montagu.
New and updated topic map files:
Updated topic map for 10th August.
In today's entry Samuel meets the new chamber maid (and comments on her ugliness). He is then visited by his father, and in turn they visit his uncle Wight to discuss the estate of Robert Pepys. He visits and dines with Lady Montagu, and takes some of her children to the theatre with Captain Ferrers. Finally, they drink back at the Pepys' house.
One point to note: the children of Jemima Montagu that he takes to the theatre remain unidentified except in number (there are four of them). As Jemima had a total of 11 children, I haven't tried to guess which, and so created a topic type of "People" for groups of unnamed individuals.
Other than that, I realise that we do not actually have the Montagu's residence as a a topic; which is odd as Samuel visits them so often. I'm going to have to do a little research to find out what it is, and then I'll add it, including modelling the final event of today: Samuel taking them all home.
New and updated topic map files:
A very busy day today. The following events are modelled:
Not just a lot of events, but a lot of difficult ones as well today.
Samuel's leaving of the office to see if he is actually called to lunch with Sir George I have simply left as an event. Henry Moore's reading of the bills in the Lord Privy's chambers is also classed just as an event; this is more because it seems to be some kind of legal protocol, and I don't know the details.
The main point of note, though, is an illness, pregnancy, and labour all being mentioned on one day have led me to create a class of health events, with subclasses of pregnancy, labour, and illness (more subclasses will undoubtably come... just wait for 1665). There is a patient role, and the individual events are given occurs associations using start-before today, or start on today. I included the individual events in the pepys-diary-people map as it directly relates to them, and may be referenced on more than one day. So, for instance:
/* In pepys-diary-people.ltm */ [mrs-hayter-labour : labour = "Mrs Hayter's labour (9th August 1661) @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/pepys/people/#mrs-hayter-labour"] occurs ( mrs-hayter-labour : event, date-16610809 : start ) participation ( mrs-hayter-labour : event, mrs-hayter : patient ) /* In 16610809.ltm */ [event-16610809-08 : news-event = "Samuel and his wife receive news from Thomas Hayter that his wife is pregnant (9th August 1661)";"16610809-08"] occurs ( today : on, event-16610809-08 : event ) participation ( event-16610809-08 : event, samuel-pepys : recipient, elizabeth-pepys : recipient, thomas-hayter : informant, seething-lane-house : place ) event-subject ( event-16610809-08 : event, mrs-hayter-labour : subject )
I may retrospectively implement these classes in previous entries.
New and updated topic map files:
Birthdays, gin and regular updates do not mix well; an unplanned hangover-event prohibited an update yesterday, so two days today, and apologies. I shall try to avoid this again.
In yesterday's entry Samuel travels with an unnamed companion from Baldwick back to London, stopping to walk in the Hatfield House grounds. Back in London he meets Dean William Fuller at home, and with him visits Lady Montagu. There he meets Henry Moore, who reminds him he is required to wait on the Lord Privy Seal the next day.
In today's entry Samuel goes to the Privy Seal in the morning, but Lord Robartes does not turn up. He goes to the Wardrobe to eat with Henry Moore, where he sees Lady Montagu, and then returns to the Privy Seal. Lord Robartes again does not turn up, and Samuel is far from pleased. In the evening, he goes to a tavern with some friends, and notes a discussion about music which causes one member of the group to leave in anger.
I've also amended the entry for the 6th, moving the inn in Baldwick to places rather than having it as a local topic on the 6th, as it is used again in the entry for the seventh. So there is an updated file for that provided as well today.
I've also added an informant role type for news-events.
New and updated topic map files:
Updated topic map for 6th August.
Today's entry models the following events:
The only point of note is the creation of an Inn topic type; differentiated from taverns in that inns offer lodging.
New and updated topic map files:
In today's entry, Samuel travels to Brampton where he sees his father, on to Yelling where he meets his cousin Nightingale and discusses his Gravely lands with her. Following this conversation (specific details are not reported) he travels on to Gravely where he has a conversation with one of his tenants.
No new ontological development to report; however, I noticed in my print copy that the church in Impington where Samuel attends services yesterday is St Andrews (I left it unidentified in the topic map). I've amended the topic map for that day, and uploaded it as well.
New and updated topic map files:
Amended topic map for yesterday's entry.
A repetitive day today: Samuel discusses his uncle's will with his cousin Roger and then attends church, dines, attends church again, and dines again with Roger and his uncle Talbot. Finally, another discussion with Roger; this time about politics.
New and updated topic map files:
In today's entry, the following events are modelled:
Not much development today (phew!). I created an instance of Assizes for the Cambridge Assizes, and did a bit of research to find the Pepys' house in Impington was Impington Hall. Samuel mentions travelling to Impington with Roger Pepys “and his two brothers”, but the only brother of Roger I can identify is (Dr) John Pepys, so I have had to create a local topic for him (Unnamed brother of Roger Pepys). Should he ever be identified the PSI can be added.
New and updated topic map files:
Another short entry today. Samuel spends the morning at the office, dines with his cousin and is visited by his brother, and then rides to Ware (en route to Cambridge); having an enlightening conversation with a Quaker on the way.
I introduced a practises religion association to document the Quaker's religion. I've also added this to Joseph Hill in people, as he is a Presbyter:
/* From ontology */ [practises-religion = "Practises Religion" = "Practised By" / practised @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/culture/#practises-religion"] [practised = "Practised" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/culture/#practised"] [adherent = "Adherent" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/culture/#adherent"] /* From people */ practises-religion ( joseph-hill : adherent, presbyterianism : practised )
Other than that, I've added an en route to role in the travelling list to show when the described journey is a stage on the way to another place.
New and updated topic map files:
In celebration of the first month of the Pepys Map, I've uploaded a zip file of all the entries for July, including my retrospective revisions and editorial tidying. The zip file also includes all the ontological files, and 166107.ltm which is a simple map that merges all the others. If you can't be bothered with all of that, then 166107.xtm is the whole lot pre-merged as XTM.
I haven't overwritten the current uploads with the amended entries, in case Kal comes back from holiday and really hates what I've done; so 166107.zip is the “guest editor's” view of the month, venison pasties and all.
In today's entry the following events are modelled:
Although not much happens, this entry has led to a lot of ontological development.
Firstly, I introduced a gift event type, and giver and gift roles (the existing recipient topic is used for that role); so:
[event-16610801-03 : gift-event = "Samuel gives Mrs Browne six silver spoons for her boy (1st August 1661)" ;"16610801-03"] occurs ( event-16610801-03 : event, event-16610801-01 : during ) participation (event-16610801-03 : event, samuel-pepys : giver, mrs-browne : recipient, spoons : gift )
Secondly, due to the plethora of venison pasties consumed this month, I added a foodstuff type (individual instances thereof to occur in the culture map), and a consumed role to be added to dining events:
[event-16610801-04 : dining-event = "Samuel and company dine at Walthamstow (1st August 1661)";"16610801-04"] occurs ( event-16610801-04 : event, today : on ) participation( event-16610801-04 : event, samuel-pepys : diner, elizabeth-pepys : diner, william-batten : diner, william-penn : diner, margaret-penn : diner, venison-pasty : consumed, walthamstow : place ) /* In culture */ [venison-pasty : foodstuff = "Venison Pasty" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/pepys/subjects/#venison-pasty"]
This has been retrospectively added to the previous entries in which the food consumed is named (see the next post for the updates).
Finally, as once more there is reported news (see 29th July) I have included a news event association type:
[event-16610801-05 : news-event
= "Samuel hears his nurse's husband's opinion of Lady Batten (1st August 1661)";"16610801-05"]
occurs ( event-16610801-05 : event, today : on )
participation( event-16610801-05 : event,
samuel-pepys : recipient )
event-subject ( event-16610801-05 : event,
lady-batten : subject )
event-subject ( event-16610801-05 : event,
nurses-husband : subject )
{lady-batten, description,
[[She was such a man's whore, who indeed is known to leave her her estate.]]} / nurses-husband event-16610801-05
The timescale of this entry is a little unclear – I have worked on the principle that Mrs Browne is coincidentally in the same coach to Walthamstow, and that the interactions with her take place on the journey. Another possible interpretation is that it is she they are visiting in Walthamstow. I have also only included Samuel and Elizabeth on the return journey, as there is no explicit mention of the others returning.
New and updated topic map files:
Today's entry is very short, consisting of a singing lesson, trip to the office theatre trip, and a loan.
The loan marked the only significant development. Firstly, I've added a Value topic which has been superclassed to purchase price for more general monetary occurrences. Topics for the loan event, repayment events, the loan itself, and lender and borrower roles have also been added:
[value = "Value" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/pepys/#value"] [loan-event = "A Loan" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#loan-event"] [repayment-event = "A Loan Repayment" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#repayment-event"] [lender = "Lender" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#lender"] [borrower = "Borrower" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#borrower"] [loan = "Loan" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#loan"]
Today's loan then is:
[event-16610731-05 : loan-event
= "Samuel borrows money from Sir William Batten (31st July 1661)";"16610731-05"]
occurs( event-16610731-05 : event, today : on )
participation( event-16610731-05 : event,
samuel-pepys : borrower,
sir-william-batten : lender,
loan-16610731 : loan )
[loan-16610731 = "Loan from Batten to Pepys"]
{loan-16610731, value, [[£40]]} / event-16610731-05
In honour of the end of the first month of this mapping exercise, I spent last night tidying up all the existing day entries, retrospectively implementing new topics (such as loan). It's not quite finished yet, but later today or tomorrow I'll be uploading them all. But for now:
New and updated topic map files:
In today's entry, the following events are modelled:
New and updated topic map files:
Another simple entry today . Samuel visits a house adjacent to the Navy Office with a view to taking it over, dines and chats with his brother, and then they visit his mother with whom they discuss money.
Not much worthy of note today: I created a topic for “John Pepys London house” as it is discussed but there is no indication of the address. News arrives whilst Pepys is at his mother's of three ill relatives; I have included this as a contextual mention, but maybe there should be a simple news event.
Kal and I seem to have different ideas on topic name capitalisation, and it's starting to look a little untidy. Once I have persuaded him with the forceable use of my heavy copy of the Oxford Style Manual to do it my way, I'll go back and tidy them up.
New and updated topic map files:
The entry for today is quite short. The Pepys are visited by Mrs Ramsey, with whom they attend church, and then take back home to dine. They attend church again in the afternoon, and return this time with Sir William Penn. Elizabeth Pepys then leaves with Penn to visit his daughter, about whom she has disparaging remarks to make.
Not too much development today. I introduced an event subclass of church service, and it seemed sensible to change the classing of funeral as a result to a subclass of this new topic. Other than that, the only point of note is the decision to include Elizabeth's assessment of Margaret Lowther's looks as a occurrence on Margaret Lowther, scoped by the event as well as by Elizabeth Pepys. The rationale for this is that, whilst previous descriptive additions have been Samuel commenting on an event, this note deserves to be an occurrence on Margaret Lowther herself. By including a scope of the event a connection is provided to the relevant diary entry, and allows for changing opinion through the course of the diary.
St Olave's church has been added to places.
I left unmodelled a domestic incident regarding control of linen. Perhaps it might be worth including an incidental event type for this kind of happening, where the nature of the event is included as a description.
New and updated topic map files:
In today's entry Samuel spends the day visiting friends. The following events are modelled:
A couple of new introductions to the ontology were required for this entry. Firstly, I added instrument to the roles available for a performance event, and created guitar and voice instances thereof. I also introduced a friend-of association to document the French friend of M d'Esquier; I have therefore added some additional friendship relationships to the people map for those individuals Samuel refers to a friends in the diary. I also added a via role for travelling events, to document the trip home via London Bridge.
Looking over the people map lit the spark of my days as an encyclopedia editor, so I went through all the names and attempted some standardisation of the names. The usual system for indexing is “Surname, Name (Honorific) (Title)”, for instance “Montagu, Edward (Sir) (Earl of Sandwich)”; peers should also be indexed via the title, but as LTM only allows for one sort name I opted for the above, as the title itself is indexed separately as part of the office holding event. I have not attempted to standardise the use of Mr and Mrs (except by removing the point for all, in line with modern usage); this is something I will discuss with Kal. An example peerage entry is then:
[sir-edward-montagu : man = "Sir Edward Montague (Earl of Sandwich)"; "Montagu, Edward (Sir) (Earl of Sandwich)"
= "My Lord" / samuel-pepys
= "Earl of Sandwich" / sir-edward-montagu-earl-of-sandwich
@"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/112.php"]
[sir-edward-montagu-earl-of-sandwich : office-holding-event
= "Sir Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich"
= "Earl of Sandwich" / sir-edward-montagu-earl-of-sandwich]
participation( sir-edward-montagu-earl-of-sandwich : event,
sir-edward-montagu : office-holder,
earl-of-sandwich : office-held )
[earl-of-sandwich : office = "Earl of Sandwich"]
Unnamed people are subindexed to a known connection:
[thomas-townshend-wife : woman = "Unnamed Wife of Thomas Townshend";"Townshend, Thomas; wife of"
@"http://www.techquila.com/psi/pepys/people/#thomas-townshend-wife"]
married-to (thomas-townshend : spouse, thomas-townshend-wife : spouse)
[captain-ferrers-lady : woman = "Unnamed Lady of Captain Ferrers";"Ferrers, Robert; lady of"
@"http://www.techquila.com/psi/pepys/people/#captain-ferrers-lady"]
friend-of ( captain-ferrers-lady : friend, samuel-pepys : friend )
These can, of course, be amended if their identity is later made clear. The latter in particular proved ambiguous as the diary refers to “Captain Ferrers' lady” – the precise relationship being unclear, I could not include a married-to association, so made do with a insinuative friend-of, arched eyebrows and all.
I have also split out non-diary dates to a separate pepys-diary-dates map; later I will move all the diary entry dates there. The dates map provides the Gregorian dates as alternative base names (scoped by a new topic gregorian), and I would propose to additionally provide a name scoped by dairy-entry, as the diary entries name the day of the week, for instance:
[date-16610715 : date = "15th July 1661"; "16610715"
= "Monday 15th July 1661"; "16610715" / diary-entry
= "25th July 1661";"16610725" / gregorian
@"http://www.techquila.com/psi/date-time/?gDateTime=1661-07-25"]
It occurs to me that as the map expands, some editorial guidelines will be very useful. I therefore intend to create an additional map, pepys-diary-editorial, which provides occurences of type editorial note for thematic and ontological topics. This will also be useful if the pool of editors expands beyond Kal and I.
New and updated topic map files:
Family relationships ontology.
Today's entry consists mainly of two chance encounters – with a Mr. Joseph Hill and with Samuel's friend Henry Moore – and the conversations he has with them concerning politics and his uncle Robert's will respectively.
The abstractions which Mr. Hill and Samuel discuss (the Church, the state, etc.) has led me to introduce a new topic map entitled pepys-diary-culture, in which topics relating to all aspects of culture are included for merging. This includes politics, religion, and education as well as art and letters. I shall over the next two weeks be going back over the published entry maps, and transferring relevant topics to the new map.
The continuing references to Samuel's uncle's estate has led to a similar decision with respect to “things”. The new map pepys-map-artifacts recurring objects, including abstractions such as the estate.
Finally, to faciliate the culture aspect, I've introduced an ontological term of “institution” as a wide-ranging topic which indicates that a place has organisational or corporate significance. This includes Parliament, university colleges, and so on.
New and updated topic map files:
Family relationships ontology.
From today's entry the following events are modelled:
As Samuel both receives and sends correspondence today, I thought I would add some topics for correspondence. A correspondence event topic has been created to cover both sending and receipt of correspondence, and then a simple participation association is used to document sender, sender address, recipient, receipient address, and the item involved. If required, we can develop a more structured view of this later.
New and updated topic map files:
Family relationships ontology.
The PSIs for the 1661 dates for 21 July, 22 July and 23 July had been incorrectly calculated in the conversion to Gregorian (see the previous note); these topic maps have been reloaded with corrections.
I checked the further entries with a rather natty multiple calendar converter here.
The corrected topics maps are:
From today's entry the following events are modelled:
A busy day for my first entry as guest editor. The most interesting event is the discussion with Sir George Lane regarding a lease on Thomas Pepys' house. The house forms part of the estate of Robert Pepys, and is currently inhabited by Thomas. Originally I simply modelled this as a discussion between Thomas, Samuel and Lane regarding the estate (for which a topic has been previously created); however I decided to revise this and create a topic specifically for the house as it is the subject of a later lease, and is also the location of the surrounding events.
I added a "located near" association type as the house is near St Martins Lane, rather than actually on it. More specific proximity associations may be useful.
To model the theft, I created a theft event type, and dated an instance of it as "start before" the current date, as the actual date of the theft is not stated; this event was then used as the subject for a discussion between Elizabeth and Samuel.
At the end of the entry, Samuel learns that his servant Will Hewer also lost a clock in the theft (and is apparently "very glad" at this). As there are no details of who imparts this information, I have left it currently unmodelled.
New and updated topic map files:
Family relationships ontology.
Please welcome Stuart Brown of OxfordML as "guest editor" for the Pepys' topic maps. I'm going to be off on holiday from the end of next week and Stuart has very kindly agreed to take on the task of keeping up with the diary in my absence.
From today's entry the following events are modelled:
This last event is a little tricky as Samuel had intended to visit his uncle William Wight, but on finding him out stayed for a while with his aunt. The question is whether intention should be modelled in the topic map and if so, how. Alternatively (and the approach I have taken) we simply model the reported facts and not the reported intention - thus we can say that Samuel had an unintentional "meeting" with his aunt (if his uncle had been in, then the event would have been an intentional "visit").
Finally there is the mention of Pepys' sister "Pall" - however as this mention is not linked in to any particular event, I currently lack the means to model it. I could, of course, create a "mentioned" association between the topic representing "Pall" with a topic representing the diary entry, but then by extension every other person and place mentioned by the diary should also be associated in this way. For now my decision is to leave out the mention and continue to focus just on modelling the people, places and events reported in the diary and to leave out modelling of intentions or thoughts.
New and updated topic map files:
Family relationships ontology.
Today's entry consists principally of Samuel's journey from Brampton to London via Hatfield House. I have modelled the entire journey as three separate stages: from Brampton to the Salisbury Arms (in what is now Hertford); from the Salisbury Arms to Smithfield; and from somewhere in London to his home in Seething Lane. The main reason for doing this, rather than modelling the entire journey as one topic is that on the way Samuel picks up a fellow traveller and we are also given some specific times for certain stages of the journey. With these things taken into consideration I felt it easier to model the trip as a sequence of separate journeys.
Also worth noting with today's entry, I have added a birth event type which is used to model genealogical information about William Cecil:
[william-cecil-birth : birth = "Birth of William Cecil (28th March 1591)"] occurs( william-cecil-birth : event, date-15910328 : on) participation( william-cecil-birth : event, william-cecil : born )
Samuel Pepys' relationship to Thomas Fenner (Fenner is his uncle) is not modelled directly by an uncle-nephew association, but instead through more "primitive" family relationships. So Thomas is married to Katherine, Katherine is the sibling of Margaret and Margaret is the parent of Samuel. It may seem a bit contorted at first, but Margaret is also metioned in today's entry, so her relationship to Samuel would have been modelled anyway:
[thomas-fenner : man = "Thomas Fenner"; "Fenner, Thomas" @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/749.php"] married-to( katherine-kite : spouse, thomas-fenner : spouse ) [katherine-kite : woman = "Katherine Kite"; "Kite, Katherine" / maiden-name = "Katherine Fenner";"Fenner, Katherine"] sibling-of( katherine-kite : sibling, margaret-pepys : sibling ) [margaret-pepys : woman = "Margaret Kite"; "Kite, Margaret" / maiden-name = "Margaret Pepys";"Pepys, Margaret" @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/282.php"] married-to( margaret-pepys : spouse, john-pepys : spouse ) parent-of ( margaret-pepys : parent, samuel-pepys : child )
New and updated topic map files:
Family relationships ontology.
In today's entry I have to deal with some new subject identifiers for existing topics and an extension of the purchasing event to cover an exchange of money for legal documents.
The first event of the day is a dinner at the Pepy's farm with William and Joan Stankes as guests. I originally created a topic for Joan Stankes at the time that I first created a topic for William Stankes. At that point, there was no separate page on the pepysdiary.com site for Joan, so I created a subject identifier for the subject "Joan Stankes" using the techquila.com domain. However as a new page has now appeared on the pepysdiary.com site for Joan, I can make use of that as a subject identifier. Fortunately a topic is allowed to have multiple subject identifiers, so this change is simply a question of adding the subject identifier to the topic definition in the "people" topic map:
[joan-stankes : woman = "Joan Stankes";"Stankes, Joan" = "Goody Stankes";"Stankes, Goody" @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/2810.php"]
The next event is a discussion between several people including Samuel about business related to the execution of Robert Pepys' will. The diary does specifically mention a deal relating to the future of Ann Pepys (wife of the late Robert), but also says that they came to agreement that other aspects of the will should be resolved through the law. So I have modelled this disucssion as being about both the subject "Ann Pepys"
event-subject( event-16610721-2 : event, robert-pepys-estate : subject, ann-pepys : subject )
The next event described is the one that is written about last in the diary entry - that is the exchange of 20 pounds for the lease of some land. The language here is somewhat arcane, but as I understand it in this transaction Samuel Pepys holds the lease which is an inheritance from his uncle Robert and William Luffe pays a bond of 20 pounds to receive that lease. This event is witnessed by Lewis Phillips, Robert Barnwell and Richard Piggot.
I decided to model this transaction as a purchasing event, which requires a new role of "vendor" which we have not had before. In addition this event is witnessed and so we need a role of "witness" to be added as well. Finally, I decided that there is a more general concept of "legal transaction" which purchasing could be seen as a subclass of, so it is necessary to insert that subject into the topic type hierarchy.
From pepys-diary-ontology.ltm
/* Legal */ [legal-transaction = "A Legal Transaction" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#transaction"] superclass-subclass(event : superclass, legal-transaction : subclass) [witness = "Witness" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#witness"]
/* Purchasing */ [purchasing-event = "A Purchase" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#purchasing-event"] superclass-subclass(legal-transaction : superclass, purchasing-event : subclass) [purchaser = "Purchaser" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#purchaser"] [purchased = "Purchased Thing" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#purchased"] [vendor = "Vendor" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/events/#vendor"]
As with previous purchasing events, the price paid is recorded as an occurrence on the topic representing the item purchased (in this case the lease). As the price is given in the context of the transaction described by the event topic, that topic is used as a scope. This would allow, for example, multiple prices to be attached to a lease as it changes hands and each price to be related to the exchange where that price was paid.
From the diary entry topic map:
participation( event-16610721-3 : event,
william-luffe : purchaser,
samuel-pepys : vendor,
lease : purchased,
lewis-phillips : witness,
robert-barnwell : witness,
richard-pigott : witness,
pepys-farm : place )
[lease = "Lease of lands at Sturtlow"]
{lease, purchase-price, [[£20]]} / event-16610721-3
The final event described today is a simple dining event with Robert Barnwell, John Bowles as guests of Samuel Pepys.
New and updated topic map files:
Family relationships ontology.
Having just borrowed a copy of the Pepys' diaries (edited by R.C. Latham and W. Matthews), I have discovered from reading the notes that the diary entry dates are given not in the Gregorian calendar, but in the Julian calendar. This means that the dates given in the diary are actually 10 days earlier than the corresponding Georgian calendar date.
From now on I will be using the Julian dates in the titles of date and date-time instances, but will translate the subject indicator URI properly. e.g.
[today : date = "Saturday 20th July 1661"; "16610720" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/date-time/?gDateTime=1661-06-30"]
During the forthcoming refactoring of the already published topic maps I'll be updating all date-time subject indicators to make them consistent.
Today's entry centers around Samuel's trip to Huntingdon. No details are given about his journey there, so this is not modelled explicity as a separate topic. Rather the diary entry starts with his visit to Sir Robert Bernard. During this visit several other events take place:
1) A discussion with Jaspar Trice about the estate of Robert Pepys
2) A discussion with Sir Robert Bernard about a debt owed to the two men
3) Dinner with Sir Robert Bernard and Lady Digby (Bernard's wife)
Following this, Samuel visits Lewis Phillips and then meets several people in a tavern identified only as "Mother ???"
The boozing ends at about 9pm according to the diary when Samuel walks home. Seeing as we have more specific details about this journey (start time and method of travel), the journey home is represented by a topic.
The final event described is Samuel's visit to Goody Gorham's alehouse to discuss business with his father, Tom Trice and others.
New and updated topic map files:
Family relationships ontology.
Today's entry introduces two new individuals, and demonstrates the use of associations to model partial knowledge.
First, Mr. Stankes is mentioned as being appointed as the bailie (bayly) for the Pepy's interests at Brampton. This is modelled as a new office-holding event with a start date placed some time in the range covered by this entry (16th to 19th July).
Samuel writes that his father and himself travel across the lands that they own, mentioning Offord and Sturtlow in particular. Although the diary does not tell us whether this is two separate journeys or a single tour, I have chosen to model it as two separate travelling events, each starting and ending within the date range of the entry.
The second new individual is Sir Robert Bernard, Sargeant-at-law, Lord of the Manor at Brampton and Recorder of Huntingdon. I have modelled all three offices as three separate office-holding events. All we know from today's entry is that Sir Robert has arrived in the country - we do not know where he has travelled from or when he departed, nor do we know for sure that he arrived on the day of the diary entry. As a result of all of this uncertainty, the travelling event is modelled quite loosely with the unknown factors being left out of the association.
[event-16610719-4 : journey = "Sir Robert Bernard travels to Brampton"; "16610719-4"] occurs( event-16610719-4 : event, end-before : today) participation( event-16610719-4 : event, sir-robert-bernard : traveller ) route-taken( event-16610719-4 : event, huntingdon : route-end )
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Today's entry although quite long does not introduce much in the way of new concepts. The only new event type introduced here is a "meeting-event" to describe the party at the Rose Tavern:
Then with Dr. Fairbrother (whom I met there) to the Rose tavern, and called for some wine, and there met fortunately with Mr. Turner of our office, and sent for his wife, and were very merry (they being come to settle their son here), and sent also for Mr. Sanchy, of Magdalen...
In this quote, the concept of "visit" that we have used so far (a person travels to a location with the intention of being at that location or interacting with another person at that location) is not really applicable to the coincidence of meeting Mr. Turner. So I have introduced a new event type "meeting". However, the later arrivals of Mrs. Turner and Mr. Sanchy are modelled as "visit" events because the text makes it clear that the reason for them coming to the tavern is to meet one or more of the people already there.
This raises an interesting question - is a "meeting" a more general case of a "visit"? In one respect, it is - a meeting could be intentional or unintentional. In another respsect it is not - a meeting involves at least two people, whereas I have previously use a "visit" to model a person travelling to a location. Possibly this points to a need to review the definition of "visit" and refactor those associations where only one person is involved to be a "journey" rather than a "visit" and restrict "visit" events to involving at least two people, one of whom travelled to the location of the visit.
The other change worth noting is that the subject of Robert Pepy's estate has come up again. To link this to the previous mention of this subject (on 13th July 1661), I have added a subject indicator to this topic both for this entry's topic map and the 13th July topic map.
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In today's entry, reference is made to Robert Barnwell. As well as creating a topic for Mr. Barnwell in the people topic map, I have added some additional information taken from an annotation on the pepysdiary.com site. In particular that Robert Barnwell was the steward of Hinchingbroke from
The office of Steward of Hinchingbroke is modelled as a topic, and the holding of that office by Robert Barnwell is also a topic.
[robert-barnwell : man = "Robert Barnwell"; "Barnwell, Robert" @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/1091.php"] [robert-barnwell-steward : office-holding-event = "Robert Barnwell was steward at Hinchingbroke from at least 1655"] [steward-of-hitchingbroke : office = "Steward of Hinchingbroke"]
Next, the fact that this office was held by Mr. Barnwell from as late as 1655 is modelled using an event occurrence association with a topic for the year 1655 playing the role "start-before". At the moment I don't have any information about when he left that office, so the occurs association only has one role.
[year-1655 : date = "1655"; "16650100" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/date-time/?gDateTime=1655"] occurs(robert-barnwell-steward : event, year-1655 : start-before)
The office held by Robert Barnwell was conferred upon him by his Lord, Sir Edward Montagu, Earl of Sandwich. This requires a new role of "office-conferer" which is included in the participation association for the office-holding event.
participation( robert-barnwell-steward : office-holder, steward-of-hitchingbroke : office-held, sir-edward-montagu : office-conferer )
Finally, it is worth also modelling that the office of "Steward of Hinchingbroke" has a responsibility for Hinchingbroke. I have modelled the responsibility as being that of the office, not of the man - the reason being that when the holder of the office changes, the responsibility passes automatically from the old office holder to the new office holder, it is therefore more logical to see the responsibility as being something "anchored on" the office and not on the office holder. In general I feel that an office- or role-centered ontology is a useful and accurate way of reflecting the human make-up of organisations.
responsible-for( steward-of-hitchingbroke : responsible, hinchingbroke : responsibility)
The events of the day are modelled as normal - there is a single dining event (with Robert Barnwell as the guest), and two visiting events one to Portholme and one to Hinchingbroke (neatly closing the loop with Robert Barnwell!)
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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.
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Today's sequence of events starts with Samuel receiving the news that his uncle Robert died on the preceding day. So the first event to model is that death.
Samuel pays a visit to William Wight and Lady Jemima Montagu, to inform them of the news, and presumably to excuse his later absence. Although there is an implicit "visits" event - there is nothing explicit in the diary to say where Samuel went to pass on his news. For this reason, I have chosen only to represent the discussion events and not the visit events.
Samuel then proceeds to St. Martin's (St. Martin's Lane) and buys a pair of boots before setting out on his journey. This can be modelled in the same way as his previous purchases.
The journey is modelled as a topic. The route of the journey (from the Post Office in London to the Pepys' farm at Brampton) is modelled using an association, with the location topics playing the roles of journey start and end). As Samuel provides some approximate times for his travels, we can model the timing of the journey using an association. In this case, Samuel gives his start time as between 11am and midday and his arrival time as 9pm. This is modelled using a 3-ary association with two roles delimiting the earliest and latest start time, and one role identifying the end time.
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Just two events to describe in today's entry. First is Samuel's visit to his
office (note to self: I should revisit the previous entries and add office
visit events which I originally skipped). The second is his calling on
Sir William Batten.
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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!).
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Today's entry introduces quite a few new characters and many new social relationships.
The events identified in todays entry:
1) Visit to Mr. Edward Montagu
2) Dining with Lady Jemima Montagu ("my Lady")
3) The death of Samuel Crew - a retrospective event as the death occurred on 2nd July 1661
4) Samuel enquires after some "Spanish books" in Duck Lane
5) Samuel visits Sir William Batten (with others)
6) Elizabeth Pepys and Lady Elizabeth Batten attend the funeral of an unnamed daughter of Sir John Lawson
7) The employment of Samuel Pepys by Sir Edward Montagu.
(1) and (2) are modelled in the same way as preceding events of a similar type. (2) also introduces "the Wardrobe" as a new place.
Although (3) actually happened the day before, it is modelled in the topic map for this entry:
/* Retrospective event : Samuel Crew dies of spotted fever */
[event-16610702-r01 : death
= "Death of Samuel Crew (2nd July 1661)"; "event-16610702-r01"]
participation( event-16610702-r01 : result,
samuel-crew : deceased )
cause-of-death( event-16610702-r01 : death,
spotted-fever : cause )
[spotted-fever : disease = "Spotted Fever"]
{spotted-fever, description, [[ "A fever characterised by the appearance of spots on the skin; now spec. (a) epidemic cerebrospinal meningiti; (b) typhus; (c) Rocky Mountain spotted fever" ]]} / soed
Note that I have also included a new occurrence type of "description" which, for the "spotted fever" topic I have use to quote from the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (my new prized possession ;-) - hence the strangely named "soed" topic used to scope the occurrence.
(4) I struggle to model properly. Ideally I would like to model the intent to purchase Spanish books from a Duck Lane. I suspect that Tom Passin's suggestion of using thematic roles and bringing the model closer to that of conceptual graphs will help here. So I am temporarly putting off modelling this event.
(5) Is simply modelled as another "visiting event"
(6) Introduces some interesting problems:
This day my Lady Batten and my wife were at the burial of a daughter of Sir John Lawson’s, and had rings for themselves and their husbands.
I have chosen to model the funeral as another subclass of event. The daughter of Sir John Lawson is unamed, so she is modelled using a topic that plays the role of "child" in a parent-of relationship with the topic that stands for Sir John Lawson.
[event-16610703-04 : funeral = "Funeral of Sir John Lawson's daughter"; "16610703-04"] participation( event-16610703-04 : event, unknown-daughter : deceased, lady-elizabeth-batten : mourner, elizabeth-pepys : mourner ) [unknown-daughter : woman = "Unnamed Daughter of Sir John Lawson"] parent-of(sir-john-lawson : parent, unknown-daughter : child)
Item (7), the employment of Samuel Pepys by Sir Edward Montagu is not explicit in the diary entry, but it is an important background fact. I have chosen to model employment as a subclass of the office-holding event (which was used in yesterday's entry to model Charles Stuart holding the office of King). As we cannot tell from this entry when that employment started (or when it will end), it is not posisble to attach an "occurs" association to this topic, but it is possible to identify the key participants:
[event-unknown-date-01 : employment = "Employment of Samuel Pepys by Sir Edward Montagu"] participation( event-unknown-date-01 : event, samuel-pepys : employee, sir-edward-montagu : employer)
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Today's diary entry on pepysdiary.com
Topic-mapping this entry
To Westminster Hall and there walked up and down, it being Term time. Spoke with several, among others my cozen Roger Pepys, who was going up to the Parliament House, and inquired whether I had heard from my father since he went to Brampton, which I had done yesterday, who writes that my uncle is by fits stupid, and like a man that is drunk, and sometimes speechless.
I have chosen to (for now) disregard some of the information given in this sentence. I will concentrate only on Sam's visit to Westminster Hall and his discussion with Roger Pepys.
In yesterday's entry I created a pattern for a "visiting" event that I can reuse here, even though Samuel is not visiting anyone in particular.
[event-16610702-01:visiting-event = "Samuel visits Westminster Hall"; "16610702-01"] occurs(event-16610702-01 : event, today : on) participation( event-16610702-01 : event, samuel-pepys : visitor, westminster-hall : place)
Roger Pepys is a new character and so needs to be described in the topic map of people. This is is current entry.
[roger-pepys : man = "Roger Pepys";"Pepys, Roger" @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/247.php"]
There is more information on Roger at the subject indicator URL, but I am not going to model that for now. One of the nice things about building a topic map in this way is that it is always possible to revisit the model and fill in details later on.
The discussion between Roger and Samuel focusses on Samuel's father and his uncle (the relationship of these men to Roger is not clear from the diary entry). To talk about these men as the subject of a conversation, topics are needed to represent them:
[john-pepys : man = "John Pepys";"Pepys, John" @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/154.php"] parent-of(john-pepys : parent, samuel-pepys: child) [robert-pepys ="Robert Pepys";"Pepys, Rober" @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/884.php"] sibling-of(john-pepys : sibling, robert-pepys : sibling)
This introduces two new association types, 'parent-of' and 'sibling-of'. I have chosen to model these family relationships in a non-gender-specific manner for two reasons
1) It simplifies the model to not have to talk about son-of, daughter-of, and brother/sister relationships.
2) Gender is recorded on the topics that represent people (where known) which means that the gender-specific family relationship can be inferred from the types of the role-playing topics in the non-gender-specific associations.
To model this conversation I also need to create a new subclass of event, the "discussion" event. The participants in the coversation are the interlocutors, and a separate association is used to specify the subject of the conversation. In this case, the subject of the conversation are two other people. Here I have chosen to use a single association to describe the conversation subject in a 3-ary relationship rather than creating two separate binary relationships - as I read this entry, I think that the
[event-16610702-02:discussion-event = "Samuel's discussion with his cousin (2nd July 1661)";"16610702-02"] occurs(event-16610702-02 : event, event-16610702-01 : during) participation( event-16610702-02 : event, samuel-pepys : interlocutor, roger-pepys : interlocutor) event-subject( event-16610702-02 : event, john-pepys : subject, robert-pepys : subject)
Home, and after my singing master had done, took coach and went to Sir William Davenant’s Opera; this being the fourth day that it hath begun, and the first that I have seen it. To-day was acted the second part of “The Siege of Rhodes.”
The singing lesson is glossed, but I have recorded it in the topic map nonetheless. The structure is the same as yesterday's entry.
The visit to the opera I model as being centered around the performance of the opera itself. This requires yet another new subclass of event, "performance" event, with a participation role played by the "company of performers", "Sir William Davenant's Opera Company". This is mentioned as being the second part of the opera, so I have titled the work accordingly.
[event-16610702-04 : performance = "Performance of 'The Siege Of Rhodes' (2nd July 1661)";"16610702-04"] occurs(event-16610702-04 : event, today : on) participation( event-16610702-04 : event, davenants-opera : performer ) performed-work ( event-16610702-04 : performance, the-seige-of-rhodes-part-ii : work ) [davenants-opera : company-of-performers = "Sir William Davenant's Opera Company"] [company-of-performers = "Company of Performers" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/art/#company-of-performers"] [the-seige-of-rhodes-part-ii : opera = "The Seige Of Rhodes (Second Part)"]
Samuel's participation in this event is as a member of the audience.
participation( event-16610702-04 : event,
samuel-pepys : audience )
There is also a brush with Royalty...
We staid a very great while for the King and the Queen of Bohemia.
So we have two new characters to add. "The King" is Charles II:
[charles-ii : man = "Charles Stuart"; "Stuart, Charles" = "Charles II" / charles-ii-king @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/344.php"]
His status as monarch I have modelled as a new type of event, an "office-holding" event. Within the scope of this event, "Charles Stuart" is known as "Charles II" hence this office-holding event is used to scope the name "Charles II". The office-holding event is modelled as:
[charles-ii-king : office-holding-event = "Reign of Charles II"] [monarch-of-england : office = "Monarch Of England"] occurs( charles-ii-king : event, date-1660-05-29 : start, date-1685-02-06 : end ) [date-1660-05-29 : date = "29th May 1660";"16600529" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/date-time/?gDateTime=1660-05-29"] [date-1685-02-06 : date = "6th February 1685";"16850206" @"http://www.techquila.com/psi/date-time/?gDateTime=1685-02-06"] participation( charles-ii-king : event, charles-ii : office-holder, monarch-of-england : office-held )
The "Queen of Bohemia" is the Lady Elizabeth Stuart.
[elizabeth-stuart : woman = "Lady Elizabeth Stuart (The Queen of Bohemia)" @"http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/833.php"]
The attendence of these royal personages at the opera is modelled in the same way as Samuel's attendance - even if they did cause the whole proceeding to be held up ;-)
participation( event-16610702-04 : event, charles-ii : audience ) participation( event-16610702-04 : event, elizabeth-stuart : audience )
To find out if Samuel got to see the opera and what he thought of it, be sure to read the entry at pepysdiary.com
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