Place:Region

Place:Region node definition.

Description

Nodes with both the "Place" and "Region" labels, representing a variety of historical and contemporary regional designations such as country boundaries, provinces, kingdoms, empires, etc. Represented in visualizations by HTML hex color #C9ADA7: Place:Region with black (#000000) label text.

Analogy

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

Example

"Nabataean Kingdom", "Al-Mafraq Governorate", "Jordan"

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 “region-”	"region-nabataean-kingdom"
name	string	Y	Y	Unique name by which this Region is known in the database.	"Nabataean Kingdom"
description	string	Y	n	Short description of the Region recorded by this node. Will almost certainly be unique, but this is not enforced.	"Nabataean Kingdom extent, ca. 100 CE"
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)
-	-	-	-	-	-
type	string	n	n	The type of Region recorded by this node entity, selected from the Vocab:RegionType controlled vocabulary.	"historical geopolitical entity"

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"