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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.

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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.

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In today's entry Samuel spends the day visiting friends. The following events are modelled:

  • Samuel goes to Westminster, where he hears a guitar recital.
  • He goes on the Westminster Hall, where he has a discussion with George Montagu.
  • He joins his wife and a number of friends at the Kings Wardrobe, where he enjoys a venison pasty.
  • With his wife, he takes Jemima Carteret and Paulina Montagu to see his house, going via London Bridge to show them the ships.
  • He sees the Montague daughter home with his wife, and they return to the Seething Lane house.
  • Finally, he writes to his father.

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.

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Family relationships ontology.

Core diary ontology.

People in the diary.

Places in the diary.

Culture in the diary.

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