Martialis Information Type Vocabulary

concept scheme

IRI:https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/information-type

dcterms:description: The informant's proximity to the specific fact a citation supports, after Mills' information classification. Set per citation: one source can give primary information on one fact and secondary on another.

dcterms:bibliographicCitation: Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (the Evidence Analysis Process Model: source, information, evidence).
dcterms:creator: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9488-3542
dcterms:license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
dcterms:publisher: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9488-3542
vann:preferredNamespacePrefix: infotype
rdfs:seeAlso: information type
owl:versionInfo: 1.0.0

dcterms:rightsHolder: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9488-3542
vann:preferredNamespaceUri: https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/information-type/
skos:hasTopConcept: PrimarySecondaryUndetermined

concept

IRI:https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/information-type/primary

primary

skos:definition: Given by someone with first-hand knowledge of the fact.
skos:scopeNote: The subject's own words about their training, a teacher's own grant, a witness to the event.

concept

IRI:https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/information-type/secondary

secondary

skos:definition: Given by someone who learned the fact from others.
skos:scopeNote: A historian's account, a later biography, an encyclopedia, a lineage's retelling of its own past.

concept

IRI:https://w3id.org/martialis/vocab/information-type/undetermined

undetermined

skos:definition: Assessed, but the informant cannot be identified, so whether the fact was known first-hand cannot be told.
skos:scopeNote: An unsigned rank list, a registry or database row, a web page with no author or stated source. Unlike an absent value, which means not yet assessed.