Conceptpower Elements

Conceptpower knows three types of elements: entries referred to as "concepts," concept lists, and types. A concept is an entry in the authority list Conceptpower provides. A concept list groups together several concepts for organizational purposes. Types are categories that concepts can be classified as. Each concept can be of one type at most. Every concept that is added to Conceptpower has to have a type. Each concept that already exists in WordNet does not have a type.

Concepts

Each concept in Conceptpower has the following properties shown in the image above:

• Term: Term that describes a concept (e.g. "Charles Darwin")
• URI: URI of a concept.
• Id: Internal identifier for a concept.
• Wordnet id: If a concept is contained in Wordnet, this is its id in Wordnet.
• POS: Part of speech for a concept (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, or other)
• Description: This is a high-level description of a concept used to aid in its understanding. It should contain any information that would be debated among scholars
• Concept list: List of concepts that a concept belongs to (each concept can only be in one list).
• Type: Type of a concept. Types can be defined as needed.
• Synonyms: Synonyms for a concept.
• Equal to: String that references another term that a concept is equal to (e.g. a link to the corresponding entry in viaf.org), may contain several references in this field
• Similar to: String that references another term that a concept is similar to, may contain several references in this field
• Creator: Creator of a concept.
• Merged Ids: Merge history of a concept.

There are three types of concepts:

WordNet concepts, added concepts, and "(WordNet) concept wrapper."

1) WordNet concepts are concepts that are contained in WordNet. If a concept has a WordNet id that equals its id then this concept is a WordNet concept. WordNet concepts don't have types. The fields "equals to," "similar to," "creator," or "modified" are empty as well.

2) Added concepts are concepts that were added to Conceptpower in addition to the concepts from WordNet and do not contain a Wordnet Id. These concepts have to have a term describing it, a POS, concept list, description, and a type.

3) Concept wrappers wrap WordNet concepts so that additional information such as type or "equals to" can be attached to a WordNet concept. All the original information of a WordNet concept will be kept in a concept wrapper but can be extended.

Concept lists

Concept lists are for organizational purposes only. Each concept or concept wrapper has to belong to a concept list. WordNet concepts are automatically in a concept list called "WordNet." Concept lists could for example group concepts into people, institutions, and places lists or sort concepts according to project focus. A concept belongs to exactly one concept list.

Types

Every added concept and concept wrapper has to be of a certain type. WordNet concepts don't have types. Types should be created as needed. There are no default types when Conceptpower is newly installed. Because of the requirements the project Conceptpower was originally developed for, each concept can be of one type at most. The basic idea of Conceptpower is that relationships between concepts and between types are made outside of Conceptpower.

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