Thing:BuildingSection
Thing:BuildingSection node definition.
Description
Nodes with both the "Thing" and "BuildingSection" labels, representing individual components and sections of a larger Thing:Building, including a room, an individual wall, doorway, etc.. While such sections should be recorded individually, so should the Thing:Building that they form a part of, along with the necessary relationship between them. Represented in visualizations by HTML hex color #4CC9F0: Thing:BuildingSection with white (#FFFFFF) label text.
Analogy
A row in a "BuildingSections" spreadsheet or relational database table.
Example
"UJ.WestChurch.nave", "UJ.WestChurch.wall03"
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-sect” | "build-sect-uj-west-church-wall-03" |
| name | string | Y | Y | Unique name by which this BuildingSection is known in the database. | "UJ.WestChurch.wall03" |
| description | string | Y | n | Short description of the BuildingSection recorded by this node. Will almost certainly be unique, but this is not enforced. | "North exterior wall of the West Church at Umm Al-Jimal, Jordan" |
| locationWKT | string (WKT) | n | n | The BuildingSection'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 BuildingSection recorded by this node entity, selected from the Vocab:BuildingSectionType controlled vocabulary. | "wall" |
| periodConstruction | [string list] | n | n | Whenever possible, an informed determination of the cultural period(s) in which this BuildingSection was originally constructed (which may differ from the Building itself), 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 BuildingSection (which may differ from the Building itself), 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 BuildingSection (which may differ from the Building itself), 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:BuildingSection ) ——[:HAS_BONDING_MATERIAL]——> ( :Vocab:MaterialType )
( :Thing:BuildingSection ) ——[:HAS_BUILDING_MATERIAL]——> ( :Vocab:MaterialType )
Relationships (incoming)
( :Thing:Note )
——[:HAS_NOTE]——>