Activity:FieldSeason

Activity:FieldSeason node definition.

Description

Nodes with both the "Activity" and "FieldSeason" labels, representing a coordinated set of activities that take place in a particular area and over a set period of time and understood as a "season" or "campaign" of field research (e.g., the three-week excavation at Umm Al-Jimal in 2024). Each "Activity:FieldSeason" will be composed of multiple individual sub-activities, modelled as "Activity:FieldworkProcess" entities. Represented in visualizations by HTML hex color #EE9B00: Activity:FieldSeason with black (#000000) label text.

Analogy

A row in a "FieldSeasons" spreadsheet or relational database table.

Example

"UJAP.2024": the 3-week excavation at Umm Al-Jimal in summer 2024.

CIDOC-CRM Mapping

MAYBE include a short summmary here, but leave the details for the designated CIDOC-CRM section.

Node Properties

Basic Properties

property	type	req?	uniq?	description	example(s)
-	-	-	-	-	-
uid	string	Y	Y	Unique identifier as alphanumeric slug, prepended with “fs-”	"fs-ujap-2024"
name	string	Y	Y	Unique name by which this FieldSeason is known in the database.	"UJAP.2024"
description	string	Y	n	Short description of the FieldSeason activity recorded by this node. Will almost certainly be unique, but this is not enforced.	"UJAP 2024 Field Season at Umm Al-Jimal"
dateStart	string (edtf)	n	n	Where relevant and available, the date this activity began, as precisely as possible, in extended date-time format (level 0/1 supported).	"2024-05-11"
dateEnd	string (edtf)	n	n	Where relevant and available, the date this activity ended, as precisely as possible, in extended date-time format (level 0/1 supported).	"2024-06-07"

TENTATIVE Properties

(these may be changed to edge/relationships with Vocab terms, rather than directly stored as node properties)

property	type	req?	uniq?	description	example(s)
-	-	-	-	-	-
method	[string list]	n	n	A list of general methods used in this FieldSeason activity, as a string array. Values are selected from the Vocab:MethodType controlled vocabulary	["excavation," "survey"]
tool	[string list]	n	n	A list of general tools/equipment used in this FieldSeason activity, as a string array. Values are selected from the Vocab:ToolType controlled vocabulary. Recording tool(s) at FieldSeason level will be relatively rare.	["tool1", "tool2", "tool3"]

System/Audit Properties

(these are not required/enforced by Neo4j but are populated via the UJAP Database web application; these could also be handled—perhaps more simply—by edge/relationship to AuditEvent nodes)

property	type	req?	uniq?	description	example(s)
proposedAt	datetime	n	n	Timestamp of entity proposal (initial database record creation)	"2026-01-30T02:39:15.638Z"
proposedBy	string	n	n	Email or userID of the person who created this entity's initial/proposed record	"person@email.com"
approvedAt	datetime	n	n	Timestamp of entity proposal (initial database record creation)	"2026-01-30T12:47:15.638Z"
approvedBy	string	n	n	Email or userID of the person who created this entity's initial/proposed record	"person@email.com"
committedAt	datetime	n	n	of node entity COMMIT (i.e., formal approval/ publishing to database by an admin).	"2026-01-31T02:41:56.043Z"
committedBy	string	n	n	Email or userID of the person who COMMITTED this node entity.	"person@email.com"