About event names

• An event name designates a temporal entity, which may be singular or recurring.
• An event may have multiple event names across languages, sponsors, editions, or historical periods.
• Event names may include qualifiers such as year, sequence number, or edition to distinguish instances within a series. An event may also have an abbreviation (e.g., WWII).
• Event names may have variants (orthographic, abbreviated, branded) that refer to the same event.

Distinction or terms from related entities

• Event name vs term: an event name identifies a specific occurrence; a term designates a general concept.
• Event name vs concept: an event name refers to an instance or series; a concept is an abstract unit of knowledge.
• Event name vs place name: an event name identifies what happens; a place name identifies where it happens.

Event name metadata

1. Event name: the text that provides the name for this event
2. Name type (e.g., formal, nickname)
3. Event type (e.g., AGM, conference, election, war)
4. Place type (e.g., building, landmark, country)
5. Start date: when did the event start (day, month, or year)
6. End date: when is it generally recognized to have ended (day, month, or year)
7. Jurisdiction: country where the event was held or took place
8. Description: a short description of this event
9. Role: Select how you intend to use this concept:
   • Preferred: primarily the one to use
   • Admitted: a variety of this same terms
   • Deprecated: this concept is no long er in use
10. Status: Identify the status of adding this concept
    • Draft: needs more info
    • Under review: by another person
    • Approved for use but not yet published
    • Published and available
    • There is a wide variety of status stages (see Also 'Terminology workflow')
11. Language: designate which language this concept has been added using (e.g., English)
12. Note: add any other information that is relevant (e.g., a guidance note on the use of this concept)

Relationships

1. Relationships with specific records (e.g., concepts, terms, or organization names):
   • Select the relationships type and use a shortcut key to tag another term to link them together
   • Examples include; abbreviation, place name, organization name
2. Collections: tags that identify what collection(s) you have used this term in
3. Documents: tags that identify what document(s) you have used this term in

Authority & Source

1. Authority refers to an organization of group that provided evidence for the use of this term (e.g., judicial, government, published)
   • Authority type: select the type of entity that provided authority for this term to exist
   • Add the description of the authority or use the shortcut key to select the an existing person or oganization from your terminology data
2. Source refers to the external documentary evidence you used for compiling this record
   • The title of the reference work that contains this evidence (the work should be in your reference library)
   • Use the backslash key and enter the title to link the reference record
   • Open the library record for this source by clicking the library icon
   • Add a new reference record to your library by clicking the + icon

Adding a list into a document

1. A smart list will produce a list of all names found in your document across all sections
2. See Style Guide / Terminology for editing the format of smart lists

Tips

• Create different collections for easy maintenance, exporting, or sharing
• We do not produce a list of work items, quotes, paraphrase, text blocks or websites as these are generally not required when writing documents.
• You can export any collection in full directly from the collection record
• If an event has been added in multiple places and needs updating, you can do so by editing the record and it will automatically update all instances

See also

• Adding a collection of terms
• Exporting a collection of terms
• Annotations / Add terms
• Style Guide / Terminology smart lists