Identifiers & vocabularies

The classes and properties that connect Honoria's data to its vocabularies — the reified honoria:Honour conferral and its links to people, award types, honours rounds, citations, topics, locations, organisations and sources (Gazette notices, Gazette issues and Cabinet Office list files, via honoria:sourcedFrom).

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A controlled vocabulary of UK honours award types — orders and their grades, gallantry decorations, and standalone medals. Each concept owns a stable URI, carries its place in the order of precedence (orderSeniority, gradeRank), and maps out to Wikidata (skos:exactMatch) and The Gazette honours ontology (skos:closeMatch). The precedence facts are sourced to the Cabinet Office “Orders, Decorations and Medals” reference and the Gazette order of wear.

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The reusable domain model behind the vocabulary: the classes (order of chivalry, grade, decoration, medal) and the properties (orderSeniority, gradeRank,withinOrder, outranks) that describe award types and their order of precedence. Kept separate from the term list so any application can reuse it; the core ontology owl:imports it and the honours vocabulary types its concepts against its classes.

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Every UK honours ribbon as a concept in a SKOS scheme — the generated artwork plus its colour provenance. Colours are sourced from a Wikimedia Commons ribbon SVG, reached via each award's Wikidata item, or from published medal references. Concepts in the honours vocabulary link here with honoria:ribbon; grades within an order share one ribbon, and awards with no ribbon (a knighthood neck badge, or a bar) link to ribbons:none.

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The topics, causes and fields people are recognised for, read from the honours citations and normalised into a controlled vocabulary — with broader/narrower relations (e.g. autism is narrower than neurodiversity) and the surface phrases as alt-labels. Each concept links to its recipients, so the vocabulary doubles as an entry into the knowledge graph. Built to be citable and federated to Wikidata.

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Royal Air Force service terms used in gazetted and historical personnel records — the roles a person held (ranks, appointments and trades) and the formations they served in. The full term is the identifier; its abbreviation (e.g. AVM) is a property (skos:notation). Senior ranks map to Wikidata (skos:exactMatch). Built for reuse across projects (e.g. unlockingthepast.com); the first of a per-service family (army and navy to follow).

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The syntax rules for UK armed-forces service numbers, by service, role and era. A service number identifies a serviceperson, so it is a high-confidence identity key and a formal identifier type. Each format concept carries a regex (svc:pattern), an example, the dates it was in use and the services it applies to — sourced from Wikipedia where possible and flagged where only observed in the data — so the rules can drive validation, identity clustering, and extraction of service numbers from free text.

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The courtesy titles and service ranks as they are recorded before a recipient's name in London Gazette honours lists ("Professor", "Sir", "Lieutenant Colonel"). A Gazette-recording vocabulary: each concept's abbreviations are captured as skos:notation / skos:altLabel, so a name parser can strip or classify a leading title from the vocabulary rather than a hard-coded pattern.

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The organisation-type designators as they are recorded in Gazette citations ("Ltd", "Trust", "NHS", "University"), grouped by category and reconciled to schema.org organisation subtypes where an unambiguous equivalent exists. It types the trailing designator of an organisation name, so role/organisation parsing is driven by the vocabulary.

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Every town, county and country recorded as a UK honours recipient's location, as a SKOS concept with its coordinates (schema:latitude/longitude), Wikidata entity (skos:exactMatch) and place hierarchy (town within county within country; overseas towns within their country). The name-to-identifier location reference — coordinates reconciled from the registry and geocoded from OpenStreetMap Nominatim.

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The occupations recorded for honours recipients (from the citation or Gazette job title), each a SKOS concept with a best-effort match (skos:closeMatch) to an ESCO occupation — the EU standard occupation classification. A reference vocabulary that standardises the messy free-text job titles against a shared taxonomy.

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