Thing:Building
Thing:Building node definition.
Description
Nodes with both the "Thing" and "Building" labels, representing human-built structures that are usually (in their original state) walled, roofed, and intended for permanent habitation or functional use. Excludes structural features such as town or garden walls, hearths, and ovens but may include gate-houses. Buildings will often be composed of individual elements, such as rooms, walls, etc., and these elements should be recorded using the ( :Thing:BuildingSection ) node, with a relationship defined between the individual sections and the Building itself. Represented in visualizations by HTML hex color #FF006E: Thing:Building with white (#FFFFFF) label text.
Analogy
A row in a "Buildings" spreadsheet or relational database table.
Example
"UJ.WestChurch", "UJ.House119"
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 “build-” | "build-uj-west-church" |
| name | string | Y | Y | Unique name by which this Building is known in the database. | "UJ.WestChurch" |
| description | string | Y | n | Short description of the Building recorded by this node. Will almost certainly be unique, but this is not enforced. | "West Church at Umm Al-Jimal, Jordan" |
| locationWKT | string (WKT) | n | n | The Building'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 | 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 | 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 Building recorded by this node entity, selected from the Vocab:BuildingType controlled vocabulary. | "church" |
| periodConstruction | [string list] | n | n | Whenever possible, an informed determination of the cultural period(s) in which this Building was originally constructed, selected from choices in Vocab:CulturalPeriod as a string array. | ["Late Roman", "Early Byzantine"] |
| dateConstructionEarliest | string (edtf) | n | n | Whenever possible, an informed determination of the earliest reasonably possible date for the construction of this Building, in extended date-time format (level 0/1 supported). | "0300" for AD 300 |
| dateConstructionLatest | string (edtf) | n | n | Whenever possible, an informed determination of the latest reasonably possible date for the construction of this Building, in extended date-time format (level 0/1 supported). | "0600" for AD 600 |
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" |
Relationships (outgoing)
( :Thing:Building )
——[:HAS_NOTE]——>
( :Thing:Note )
Relationships (incoming)
( :Thing:Note )
——[:HAS_NOTE]——>
( :Thing:Building )