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Cultural Formation deprecated in favour of Cultural Form. Closes Ticket
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<li><a href="#linkages">b. Linkages to other ontologies</a></li>
<li><a href="#provenance">c. Provenance and contexts</a></li>
<li><a href="#labelsandvalues">d. Labels and values</a></li>
<li><a href="#culturalformationsgeneric">e. Cultural Formations</a></li>
<li><a href="#culturalformationsgeneric">e. Cultural Form</a></li>
</ul>
<li><a href="#structures">6. CWRC ontological structures</a></li>
<ul style="list-style-type: none">
<li><a href="#culturalformationsontology">a. Cultural Formations</a></li>
<li><a href="#culturalformationsontology">a. Cultural Form</a></li>
<li><a href="#contextontology">b. Contexts</a></li>
<li><a href="#granularproperties">c. Granular Properties</a></li>
<li><a href="#taxonomiesontology">d. Built-in Taxonomies</a></li>
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the <a href="#_getty_2017">Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus</a> (<a href="http://www.getty.edu/research/index.html">Getty Research
Institute</a>). Other
terms are referenced but at one remove. This is particularly common in
relation to the vocabulary associated with Cultural Formation (see below),
relation to the vocabulary associated with Cultural Form (see below),
which is understood primarily as representational, and within which identity
terms are typed as labels and related to other internal narrower instances of labels
that indicate the intersection of that term with one or more type of
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terms and their definitions are not commensurate
with those used in the CWRC vocabulary. By means of this structure, our
vocabulary positions all terms associated with processes of Cultural
Formation as in effect labels, retaining the ambiguity of terms implicated in the complex social construction of identities.</p>
Form as in effect labels, retaining the ambiguity of terms implicated in the complex social construction of identities.</p>


<p>Vocabulary reuse presented some challenges to the CWRC in that the
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<li>The <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/">Open Annotation</a> data model is used to link the original Orlando
text to specific <a href="#Context">Contexts</a>.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/">SKOS</a> vocabulary is use to represent taxonomical relationships
within certain <a href="#CulturalFormation">Cultural Formation<a/>s and
within certain <a href="#CulturalForm">Cultural Form<a/>s and
to fully document ontology terms.</li>
<li>Some <a href="http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/">Dublin Core</a> vocabulary terms are used for well known documentation
tags such as &lt;dc:title&gt;.
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understanding of identity categories, as instantiated in The Orlando
Project’s XML Biography schema.

The Cultural Formation portion of the ontology recognizes categorization as
The Cultural Form portion of the ontology recognizes categorization as
endemic to social experience, while incorporating variation in terminology
and the contextualization of identity categories. It understands social
classification as culturally produced, intersecting, and discursively
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<p>Two basic structures are used within the ontology to achieve this: <a
href="#Context">Context</a>s and <a href="#CulturalFormation">Cultural Formations<a/>.
href="#Context">Context</a>s and <a href="#CulturalForm">Cultural Form<a/>.
A cultural formation represent elements of lived social subjectivities
and/or classification of people through categories such as race, gender, language, sexuality, or religion.
Contexts are used to link a fragment of Orlando prose to the individual
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two categories: reported and self-reported, allowing for the
qualification of individual statements.</p>

<h4 id="culturalformationsontology">a. Cultural Formations</h4>
<h4 id="culturalformationsontology">a. Cultural Form</h4>

<p>The <a href="#CulturalFormation">Cultural Formation<a/> classes
<p>The <a href="#CulturalForm">Cultural Form<a/> classes
recognize categorization as endemic to social experience, while
incorporating variation in terminology and contextualization of identity
categories by employing instances at different discursive levels.</p>

<p>Cultural Formation sub-classes and instances describe the subject positions
<p>Cultural Form sub-classes and instances describe the subject positions
of individuals through both <a href="#Context">Context</a>s and granular
properties. This arrangements has its roots in the Orlando arrangement of
Cultural Formations encodings that pointed users towards a framework for
Cultural Form encodings that pointed users towards a framework for
raising and debating complex matters for cultural investigation rather than invoking reified
categories.</p>

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black, English, etc.: white and black can
represent race or ethnicity, while English can also be invoked as an ethnicity,
nationality, or a national heritage. Orlando marks these strings using
its Cultural Formations tagset as specific to, for example, the context of race or
ethnicity, mandating a similar association, within the linked data representation, with a specific instance of Cultural Formation. Thus, there exist Cultural Formation instances that point to the discursive construction of <a
its Cultural Forms tagset as specific to, for example, the context of race or
ethnicity, mandating a similar association, within the linked data representation, with a specific instance of Cultural Form. Thus, there exist Cultural Form instances that point to the discursive construction of <a
href="#whiteRace">white</a> as a race and <a href="#whiteEthnicity">white</a>
as an ethnicity. Lastly, there also exists a <a href="#whiteLabel">white</a>
label that can be instantiated as either race or ethnicity, but not both within the same assertion (although multiple assertions are possible).</p>
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appropriately, since multiple representations of the same label are
present within the CWRC ontology. As a last resort, or for data mining
purposes, the term is also available as an concept whose actual Cultural
Formation is undecided amongst the CWRC-defined options. This allows for
Form is undecided amongst the CWRC-defined options. This allows for
linkages to an external ontology, such as can be required by text mining, without
endorsing the corresponding definition or interpretation of the term.</p>

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