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Note: we use one letter to designate this class in order to signal its importance and conserve on notational space for frequently-used phenomena. Time and space in particular are ubiquitous.
N: Non-Human Environment [elements of]
1. Location (general coding for) [examples of] [need something for poor countries etc.]
[First a through f entries follow same order as in PI4, PI3, PI2a]
a. International; Global [Codes for Earth, World]
b. Continental (Regions of countries) [n for North America; s for South america; e for Europe; f for Africa; a for Asia, t for Antarctica; u for Australia; o for Oceania; these can each be combined with directions or other things to indicate regions of continents]
c. Countries [ISO 3166 provides two-letter codes for all countries]
d. Regions within countries [ISO 3166 provides two-letter codes for major regions within all countries; we can follow them in signifying a region by a dash between country code and region code: id-ba is Bali in Indonesia]
e. States/provinces [ISO 3166-2 provides two or three-letter codes for over 4000 states – these are coded by country first (see above)] [Cutter
numbers can be used in conjunction with coding for country/province.] [See Classifying Provinces]
f. Local areas
g. Cities [Cutter numbers for all of the following, linked to the narrowest geographical area that defines them]
h. Rural areas
i. Suburbs
j. Metropolitan area [FAST distinguishes region, suburban area and this]
k. Counties or municipalities
l. Other administrative regions [Postal codes might be listed here.] [See Classifying Administrative Districts ]
m. Boroughs within cities
n. Neighbourhoods [Segregation is associated with ethnic groups]
o. Highway interchanges
p. Sites
q. Geographic features
r. Bridges and tunnels
s. Other built structures [The last several entries are drawn from FAST]
t. Wilderness areas, parks, wildlife refuges
u. Extinct cities
v. Ancient kingdoms (other defunct political jurisdictions)
w. Archaeological sites
x. Disputed territories
y. Latitude
z. Longitude [Latitude and longitude could be directly followed by the number of degrees if necessary]
[Note that FAST tries to provide latitude and longitude for all entries. This need not be in the call number, or subject heading, of course, but can be linked to these]
2. Time period (general coding for) [types of]
a. Temporary, fleeting [Second] [Need minute?]
b. Hour
c. Day [Can write particular date yyyymmdd]
d. Week
e. Month [numbered 1 to 12]
f. Seasonal [w winter; s spring; m summer; a autumn)
g. Year [Can write out particular year.] gl is leap year
h. More than a year [can write out span between two years. As in UDC yyyy/yyyy or yyyy/ for after yyyy]
i. Decade
j. Century [Can say 2j18 for 18th century; 2j18↓ for 18th c BCE]
k. Millennium [As with century]
l. Ongoing [So ‘drift’ is ongoing change?]
m. Future lm is eternal
n. Day/ night cycle
o. Weekdays
p. Saturday
q. Sunday
r. Holidays
s. Periodically [Regularly Continually?]
t. Before, preceded by
u. After, followed by
v. During/ Now At same time.
w. Again
x. For the first (versus last) time
[FAST links particular named periods like Middle Ages to a stated date range]
z. Geological periods
3. Direction [These can be combined if necessary.]
c. Central
e. East
n. North
s. South
w. West
a. Above or on/below [‘suspended from’ is ‘below’ and ‘attached’]
i. Inside or intra-, versus outside or inter-, [Note that here we capture the specific sense of ‘contained in’ while the locational ‘located in’ is captured by
the relator >. Note also that we can capture the concepts ‘filled’ or ‘surrounded’ by linking ‘inside’ or ‘outside’ respectively with QR1 for ‘full.’]
p. near, [parallel?] next to, adjacent, beside versus far
q. degrees (can be followed by numbers from 0 to 360)
r. right
l. left
f. front
b. back
m. middle
o. out of
t. toward, at , versus away
u. up/ down Falling? Above/below? Underground?
v. volume [The next entries can be used with ‘measurement’ to signal liters etc., but it should not be necessary to code for particular measures.
Qualitative indicators can be used to indicate relative measures.]
d. distance/length
n. number
r. area
x. mass
z. scope/size in general
y. We may need to code here for dimensions beyond the usual spatial and temporal dimensions.
4. States of nature [May all get moved into a chemical class?]
a. gas (air, cloud, smoke)
b. liquid (suspension, solution)
c. solid (natural/synthetic, mineral etc.) [See MM. Molecules]
d. crystal [AAT under material forms has emulsion, colloid, aerosol, film, dispersion, filament, foam, crust, laminate, membrane, mesh, shavings, smoke,
solution, syrup, veneer, wicker, panel (some of these should be in NM?}]
e. plasma [Plasma is distinct from a gas because it possesses unique properties. Free electrical charges (not bound to atoms or ions) cause plasma to be
electrically conductive. Plasma may be formed by heating and ionizing a gas. Stars are made of plasma. Lightning is plasma. You can find plasma inside
fluorescent lights and neon signs.]
f. superfluid [a universal phenomenon in which the matter behaves like a fluid with zero viscosity. A supersolid is a spatially ordered material with
superfluid properties.]
5. Shapes: [N5 codes for shape in general] [Nevertheless some shapes are in XG Geometric Shapes] [deform is change shape bad]
a. block [irregular cube]
b. ball
c. column [irregular cylinder]
d. granular [beaded, studded?]
e. embossed or indented [AAT has long list of changes to surface, which could be captured as further subclasses: block, deboss, emboss, impress, incise, marble, monogram, mottle, pebble, punch, pyrography, rifle, score, sponge, stamp, stipple, tool]
f. floppy versus stiff
g. gnarled
h. hollow
i. (with) holes
j. grooved/morticed/guttered [fluted, milled?]
k. kinked/crooked/ bent [forked?] arched?
l. layered [foliate is cause layers]
m. folded [There are different types of fold in SUMO]
n. wrinkled or ruffled or rumpled or puckered
o. plumed
p. pointed versus flat
q. sharp versus dull
r. ridge or scallop
s. sliver/shaving/flaked
t. twisted
u. wire or string
v. gouged or crushed [relate to verb]
w. wave, wavy
x. curly (degrees of) [Looped?, knotted?]
y. combed [might capture here various hair types]
6.Connections
a. Tributaries
b. Branches
c. Fastened
d. Twisted
e. Bonded, glued, pasted
f. Injected
g. Laminated
i. Sewed
j. Knitted
k. Lined
l. Assembled
m. Dowelled
n. Hinged
o. Nailed
p. Screwed
q. Riveted
r. Stapled
s. Tacked
t. Soldered
u. Welded
v. Spliced
w. Tied
z. Bordered, Framed
7.Color [AAT just does primary, secondary, tertiary; add black, white; allow combinations, Cutter for more specific?] [Spectrum?]
8.Sounds [horn, bell, whistle?
a. Loudness
b. Pitch
9.Smells and Tastes [Or do these get connected to perceptions?]
a. Sweet/sour
b. Salty
[Under X we will classify a set of mathematical terms such as algorithm, logarithm, infinity, ratio, series, vector (listed in AAT)
and geometric terms like angle and radius; sets, classes etc., point, line, 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional (as in SUMO); SUMO abstract class has sets and classes,
relations, propositions, quantity (number or physical quantity), attribute, graph, graph element]
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