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Today's entry centers around Samuel's trip to Huntingdon. No details are given about his journey there, so this is not modelled explicity as a separate topic. Rather the diary entry starts with his visit to Sir Robert Bernard. During this visit several other events take place:

1) A discussion with Jaspar Trice about the estate of Robert Pepys

2) A discussion with Sir Robert Bernard about a debt owed to the two men

3) Dinner with Sir Robert Bernard and Lady Digby (Bernard's wife)

Following this, Samuel visits Lewis Phillips and then meets several people in a tavern identified only as "Mother ???"

The boozing ends at about 9pm according to the diary when Samuel walks home. Seeing as we have more specific details about this journey (start time and method of travel), the journey home is represented by a topic.

The final event described is Samuel's visit to Goody Gorham's alehouse to discuss business with his father, Tom Trice and others.

New and updated topic map files:

Topic map for this entry.

Family relationships ontology.

Core diary ontology.

People in the diary.

Places in the diary.

Today's entry introduces two new individuals, and demonstrates the use of associations to model partial knowledge.

First, Mr. Stankes is mentioned as being appointed as the bailie (bayly) for the Pepy's interests at Brampton. This is modelled as a new office-holding event with a start date placed some time in the range covered by this entry (16th to 19th July).

Samuel writes that his father and himself travel across the lands that they own, mentioning Offord and Sturtlow in particular. Although the diary does not tell us whether this is two separate journeys or a single tour, I have chosen to model it as two separate travelling events, each starting and ending within the date range of the entry.

The second new individual is Sir Robert Bernard, Sargeant-at-law, Lord of the Manor at Brampton and Recorder of Huntingdon. I have modelled all three offices as three separate office-holding events. All we know from today's entry is that Sir Robert has arrived in the country - we do not know where he has travelled from or when he departed, nor do we know for sure that he arrived on the day of the diary entry. As a result of all of this uncertainty, the travelling event is modelled quite loosely with the unknown factors being left out of the association.


[event-16610719-4 : journey = "Sir Robert Bernard travels to Brampton"; "16610719-4"]

occurs( event-16610719-4 : event,

end-before : today)

participation( event-16610719-4 : event,

sir-robert-bernard : traveller )

route-taken( event-16610719-4 : event,

huntingdon : route-end )

New and updated topic map files:

Topic map for this entry.

Family relationships ontology.

Core diary ontology.

People in the diary.

Places in the diary.

Today sees the release of the latest version of TM4J, the open-source topic map engine. This release is primarily a bug-fix release, but also enhances the tolog query implementation to enable dynamic association predicates to use a variable for the association type, thus allowing queries such as: $ASSOC(foo, bar) to find the type of all associations between topics foo and bar.

Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from the TM4J SourceForge page.