Place:Area

Place:Area node definition.

Description

Nodes with both the "Place" and "Area" labels, representing locations that have been designated as "areas" or "fields" in the subdivision of a site or survey location. Such divisions are usually made in the planning of fieldwork based on spatial proximity and the distribution of labor resources, and they may or may not have any meaningful correspondence with buried archaeological materials or past functional-use areas. Over time, or across activities carried out by different actors, Areas may duplicate or overlap with each other, and this can sometimes be confusing. For projects that utilize these place divisions, they have particular importance in establishing context through the reference of documenting recorded materials within them. Represented in visualizations by HTML hex color #43AA8B: Place:Area with white (#FFFFFF) label text.

Analogy

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

Example

"UJ.A": Area A at Umm Al-Jimal; "UJ.DD": Area DD at Umm Al-Jimal; "Field Q" at Tall Hisban

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 “area-”	"area-uj-x"
name	string	Y	Y	Unique name by which this Area is known in the database.	"UJ.A"
description	string	Y	n	Short description of the Area recorded by this node. Will almost certainly be unique, but this is not enforced.	"Area A at Umm Al-Jimal, Jordan."
locationWKT	string (WKT)	n	n	REQUIRED FOR ALL NEW PLACES. The place's spatial geometry as a point, line, or (multi)polygon, expressed as a WKT string (the Open Geospatial Consortium standard for spatial geometry interchange).	"POLYGON ((36.379595 32.319053, 36.387148 32.322898, 36.387405 32.331673, 36.380625 32.33907, 36.363287 32.346467, 36.351871 32.345307, 36.349039 32.334429, 36.353416 32.3184, 36.379595 32.319053))"
locationSRID	string	n	n	REQUIRED FOR ALL PLACES WITH A locationWKT. Spatial Reference Identifier (SRID, often identical to EPSG code) for the coordinate reference system in which the location is defined.	"4326" for WGS 84
locationConfidence	string	n	n	REQUIRED FOR ALL PLACES WITH A locationWKT. The confidence level in the recorded location's accuracy and precision, selected from the Vocab:Confidence controlled vocabulary.	"moderate"

TENTATIVE Properties

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

property	type	req?	uniq?	description	example(s)
-	-	-	-	-	-

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"