Portrait-Sitting Ontology

The portrait-sitting ontology is a formal specification of the objects, concepts and relationships that make up knowledge about portrait sittings. It is the framework, according to which the data in the portrait-sitting database has been structured.

The terms in the ontology derive both from the 'top down' (i.e. from a pre-existing idea of what the portrait sitting is and what is important to know about it) and from the 'bottom up' (i.e. from information that appears in textual accounts of portrait sittings).¹ The construction of the ontology is discussed in greater detail in the thesis and other work.

Click on a class in the ontology to view its definition, or click on any term to find out more about its use. You can also access the ontology via GitHub.

¹ For 'top down' and 'bottom up' approaches to data modelling, see Flanders and Jannidis 2016, p 12-14.

Classes

• Academic Gown
• Acceptance, Reassurance or Acknowledgement
• Access Channel
• Acquisition
• Activity
• Actor
• Advice, Expertise or Instruction
• Advisor
• Affection, Admiration or Commitment
• Agent
• Agent Role
• Agreement
• Anticipated Event
• Anticipated Role
• Apparel
• Architectural Model
• Arms Closed
• Arms Open
• Art Event
• Artist
• Art Object
• Art Object Role
• Author
• Autobiography
• Baton
• Biography
• Birthday
• Book
• Borrower
• Building
• Business Event
• Business, Opportunity or Exposure
• Bust
• Buyer
• Cafe, Restaurant or Pub
• Castle
• Catalogue Entry
• Cello
• Ceramic
• Ceremonial Dress
• Chalk
• Cheque
• Christmas
• Cigarette or Cigar
• City
• Coat
• Collection
• Colour Palette
• Commodity
• Companion Portrait
• Composing
• Composition
• Condition State
• Conducting
• Consumable (Object)
• Conversation
• Coronation
• Coronation Dress
• Correspondence
• Cost
• Costume
• Costume in Portrait Production Event
• Costume in Portrait Object
• Country
• County
• Creative Work, Intellectual Property or Rights
• Credible Author
• Crown
• Death
• Decision Maker
• Degree of Remove
• Designer
• Design Factor
• Desire
• Desk Work
• Destruction
• Diary Entry
• Dictating Letters
• Disagreement
• Document (Object)
• Dog
• Drawing (Object)
• Drawing Room
• Dress
• Drink or Meal (Event)
• Easel
• Engagement
• Essential Role
• Event
• Event Role
• Exchange
• Exemplar
• External (Request)
• Factor
• Feeling
• Fidgeting
• Financial Event
• Finished State
• Flattery, Cooperation or Service
• Food or Drink
• Format (Figure)
• Format or Size
• Format (Size)
• Friendship (Event)
• Funder
• Fund or Bequest
• Furniture
• Garter Robes
• Gaze Down
• Gaze Up
• Gender Identity
• Gift (Event)
• Gift Giver
• Gift Recipient
• Gift (Role)
• Given Role
• Giver
• Gloves
• Group Subject
• Hairband
• Hat
• Headwear
• Health Event
• Home or Hotel
• Hospital
• Hospitality, Social Harmony or Entertainment
• Host
• Illness
• Individual Subject
• Information or Ideas
• Information Object
• Initiator
• Injury
• Instrument
• Intangible Object
• Internal (Ambition)
• Interview Transcript
• Jacket
• Jewellery
• Journey
• Jubilee
• Knighthood (Event)
• Lamp
• Lecture Theatre
• Lender
• Letter
• Literary Event
• Literary Object
• Literary Work (Content)
• Loan (Event)
• Loan (Role)
• Location
• Location in Portrait Production Event
• Location in Portrait Object
• Logistical Factor
• Maker
• Manuscript
• Map
• Mark-Making Style
• Mayoral Robes
• Medal
• Mediator
• Medium
• Memorandum
• Military Uniform
• Model
• Music Event
• Music Object
• Negative Feeling
• Negative Opinion
• Negative Reception
• Non-Essential Role
• Object
• Object Role
• Observer
• Occasion
• Occupation
• Offence, Dissatisfaction or Discomfort
• Opinion
• Organisation (Agent)
• Outbuilding
• Outdoor Space
• Painting (Object)
• Painting (Activity)
• Palace
• Person (Agent)
• Personal Object
• Person Group (Agent)
• Person Role
• Photograph
• Piano
• Playing an Instrument
• Pointing
• Political Event
• Portrait Acquisition
• Portrait Commission
• Portrait Construction
• Portrait Destruction
• Portrait Display
• Portrait Event
• Portrait Inception
• Portrait Meeting
• Portrait Object
• Portrait Pitch
• Portrait Presentation
• Portrait Production
• Portrait Production Role
• Portrait Reception
• Portrait Reproduction
• Portrait Review
• Portrait Sitting
• Portrait-Sitting Account
• Portrait Sitting Proper
• Portrait-Sitting Record
• Pose
• Pose in Portrait Production Event
• Pose in Portrait Object
• Positive Feeling
• Positive Opinion
• Positive Reception
• Potential Role
• Precious Metal
• Presentation
• Presentation Portrait
• Press Article
• Print
• Product
• Production
• Prop
• Prop in Portrait Production Event
• Prop in Portrait Object
• Publication Status
• Purchase (Event)
• Purchase (Role)
• Purpose
• Realised Event
• Realised Role
• Receiving Treatment
• Reception Room
• Recipient
• Reviewer
• Role
• Room
• Satisfaction, Interest or Enjoyment
• Scarf
• Sceptre
• Schedule
• Sculpting
• Sculpture
• Seated
• Seller
• Set
• Sheet Music
• Shop
• Signed Object
• Sitter
• Sketchbook
• Smoking
• Social Event
• Social Information Object
• Socio-Economic Descriptor
• Source Format
• Space
• Standing
• State
• Stick
• Stool
• Street
• Studio
• Subject
• Subject in Portrait Object
• Subjective Event
• Suggestion
• Suit
• Sum of Money
• Supplier
• Support
• Tangible Object
• Teaching
• Throne Room
• Tiara
• Topic
• Town or Village
• Transfer to Institution
• Transfer to Person
• Travel Event
• Trousers
• Unit
• Unrealised Event
• Unrealised Role
• Using the Telephone
• Valuable Object
• Visit or Stay
• War
• Weather Event
• Workplace
• Writing Implement

Properties

• date URL accessed
• end page in source
• has approximate age in years
• has approximate duration in months
• has approximate number of sittings
• has approximate sitting duration in hours
• has archive reference
• has current title
• has depth in mm
• has diameter in mm
• has dimension in mm
• has given date
• has height in mm
• has image credit line
• has interpreted date
• has PSE date
• has PSE value (£ in 2017)
• published
• has text
• has title
• has URL
• has value
• has width in mm
• has year of birth
• has year of death
• in archive
• start page in source
• access channel for
• accessed in format
• accessed via
• anticipated by
• anticipates
• art object role in
• atypically played by
• atypically plays
• author or speaker in
• borrowed by
• borrows
• buys
• coincides with
• collection currently includes
• colour palette of
• condition state of
• degree of remove of
• derivative of
• described by
• describes
• determined by
• determines
• during which happens
• editor of
• engaged to
• event role in
• feels
• felt by
• finished state of
• format figure of
• format of
• gender identity of
• gifted by
• gifted to
• gifts
• given by
• gives
• happens after
• happens before
• happens during
• has art object role
• has author or speaker
• has child
• has colour palette
• has companion
• has condition state
• has current collection
• has degree of remove
• has derivative
• has editor
• has event role
• has finished state
• first published
• has format (figure)
• has friend
• has gender identity
• has interviewer or recipient
• has mark-making style
• has medium
• has member
• has object role
• has occupation
• has parent
• has portrait object
• has portrait production
• has portrait-sitting account
• has protagonist
• has publication status
• has publisher
• has related agent
• has related art object
• has related collection
• has related event
• has related role
• has replica
• has reproduction
• has role
• has social connection to
• has socio-economic descriptor
• has source
• has spouse
• has study
• has sub-event
• has (to give)
• has topic
• has unit
• has version
• held by
• holds
• included in
• includes
• interviewer or recipient in
• in which situated
• irreplaceably played by
• irreplaceably plays
• is gifted
• is near
• knowingly played by
• knowingly plays
• known about by
• knows
• knows about
• lends
• lent by
• mark-making style of
• medium of
• member of
• object role in
• occupation of
• partially determined by
• partially determines
• played by
• plays
• portrait object in
• portrait production in
• portrait-sitting account in
• possibly played by
• possibly plays
• potentially given by
• potentially received by
• prompted by
• prompts
• protagonist in
• publication status of
• publisher of
• realisation of
• realised in
• received by
• receives
• (record) has related art object
• relates to record
• replica of
• reproduction of
• role in
• sells
• situated in
• socio-economic descriptor of
• sold by
• sold to
• solely determined by
• solely determines
• source of
• stands to receive
• study for
• sub-event of
• topic of
• typically played by
• typically plays
• unit of
• unknowingly played by
• unknowingly plays
• version of