Data Model

This page describes the data model in prose. EntitySchemas will be used to formally define the data model for key classes.

The central class in the data model is Person. Almost all other classes are primarily used as vocabularies to describe Person, for example city, province, country, higher education institution, or academic field.

Virtually data is modeled semantically and, as a consequence, multilingually. At the moment, this is limited to Simplified Chinese and English.

At the moment, only cities are geolocated.

Person

• A person is necessarily an instance of the class Person.
• A person has an identifier in LXS, but can also have additional identifiers, for example on Wikidata.
• A person can have a number of life events, in particular birth, marriage and death. These can have a location (at the country, province or city level) as well as a date (using more or less precise EDTF values).
• A person can have one or several places of residence (at the country level, or specified at the province or city level), each with a duration (expressed in more or less precise EDTF values).
• A person can have one or several educational experiences, identified by their institution. These may be specified at the faculty level as well, have a field of study and a duration (in EDTF). Institution, faculty and field can be modeled both as a string (as found in the source) and semantically (as an item in the Wikibase).
• Finally, a person can be part of one or several waves of study abroad.