User interventions: Creating indices (places, persons, keywords)

The editors of MOM-CA allow you to create index style references almost everywhere in your charter description. In the display of each single charter you find these keywords at the end in the section "Index". You will notice that these these indices are organised in four levels:

1. general type (i.e. place, person, keyword(?)
2. group/type (e.g. "Stiftsindex" inside the place index)
3. lemma (i.e. a standardised form of the index term)
4. original version (i.e. the version of the index term as it occurs in the description or the transcription)

To create this kind of information you have to mark up the passage in the description or the transcription that should be indexed with the appropriate general type from the #ref# menu. In the attribute area you will find a field for "type" (i.e. the subgroup in the general type) and the lemma. The original version text is the text you marked up.

Before creating a type consider if your index shouldn't be part of the appropriate description area (e.g. for persons represented by seals the can go into the "seal description", witnesses can be described in the transcription by setting the appropriate mark up from the "indexing" menu around the person mark).

Best practice is to use for the lemma a term that starts with the word by which you want to sort the index and try to use a term which is used in public available controlled vocabularies like VIAF, geonames, the Vocubulaire Internationale de la Diplomatique (VID) etc.

Core vocabularies of diplomatics (VID, Vocabulaire Internationale de la Sigillographie (VIS)) are already part of Monasterium.net. You can modify them or create your own SKOS vocabulary with the SKOS-editor of MOM-CA, which is currently under development.

Places and persons can be identified by using the URI (permalink) of the place/person from a controlled vocabulary in the key-attribute. For example: The placename "Vitulano" get's the key-attribute "http://www.geonames.org/3164025" (as referenced in the permalink section of the geonames page for Vitulano).

Currently the lemma unfortunateley isn't searched in the MOM-CA search. This is a bug, but we are working on it.