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Mapping to EMu

Te Papa collection management system mapping

The following information is in draft. Not all mappings have been confirmed.

As part of this project, Te Papa has mapped part of the Research Expeditions schema to fields in its collection management system EMu, allowing the import of expedition data.

Each expedition is represented in EMu as a Party record and a Narrative record. These are pulled through to Te Papa's collections API and Collections Online site as agents and topics.

The Party record can be linked to objects and specimens as a collector, as well as connecting associated people and organisations. The identifier given to the Party record can also be added to the expedition's Wikidata item using P3544 Te Papa agent ID.

The Narrative record incorporates a combination of structured and free text information about the expedition, as well as direct links to objects and specimens collected during that expedition.

Not all fields in the schema have been mapped because there isn't a suitable equivalent in EMu, or the available values don't match a fixed vocabulary used by the system. However this mapping does allow Te Papa to create records for the expeditions it's been involved with, while linking to Wikidata for the full range of structured data.

Notes:

• Associations added to Party records can have a 'role' value populated. However, this is not currently published to the API or Collections Online.

EMu mapping

Values included in the Narrative module's 'Narrative' field get incorporated into templated free text. See below for details.

Property	Label	Party field	Narrative field	Notes
	Item label		Details > Narrative Details > Title
	Also known as		Narrative
P31	instance of	Roles > Role	Associations > Association Details > Subjects/Keywords
P18	image		Multimedia	A selected 'hero' image
P155 P156	follows followed by	Associations > Associated With	Narrative
P1705	native label		Narrative
P1813	short name		Narrative
P138	named after	Associations > Associated With	Narrative
P17	country		Associations > Association Details > Place
P276	location		Associations > Association Details > Place
P1427 P2825 P1444	start point via destination point		Narrative
P580	start time	History > Period of Activity > Commenced > Commenced Biography > Birth/Death Details > Date of Birth AND Earliest AND Latest	Narrative	Also added to Biography fields to allow display on Collections Online
P582	end time	History > Period of Activity > Completed > Completed Biography > Birth/Death Details > Date of Death AND Earliest AND Latest	Narrative	Also added to Biography fields to allow display on Collections Online
P495	country of origin		Narrative
P937	work location		Narrative
P3712	has goal		Narrative
P101	field of work	Roles > Specialties		Has to be manually selected from a picklist in EMu
P664 P859 P8324 P1416 P1037 P710 P1876 P4791	organiser sponsor funder affiliation director/manager participant vessel commanded by	Associations > Associated With	Narrative
P973 P1343	described at url described by source		Narrative
	Wikipedia site link	Web Assoc. > Web Associations	Web Assoc. > Web Associations
P373	Commons category	Web Assoc. > Web Associations	Web Assoc. > Web Associations

Narrative template mapping

The Narrative free text mapping put selected values into a template, using some conditional logic. It's broken into sections.

Introduction

If an English Wikipedia article exists, the article summary is pulled in. Otherwise, a sentence is built using the noted values.

Details

Where they're available, the values that go in the 'Narrative' field are formatted in a simple structured way.

Further reading

Sources attached to the item with P973 described at url and P1343 described by source are looked up to get their authors, titles and urls, and turned into a simple list.

Examples

Coming soon!