object naming
Types of recognized text identifiers for an object, including names, abbreviations, and other naming forms.
The type of any name indicates how any given text identifier for an object behaves as data, for purposes of listing, searching, sorting, and describing. An object's official name or standard name is listed simply as its "name", and others are sorted accordingly into different types.
Each name type is time-sensitive and language-sensitive, so that different language versions (translations & transliterations) and time versions (former & future names) are stored under the same respective types. Thus, both former and future names may be stored under the same type, and delineated on a timeline through the time values assigned to them.
A full name preserves an unabridged form, while an abbreviated name is a shortened alternative. A name's language and period of validity are separate from whether it is full, abbreviated, or standard.
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More specific definitions
8 sub-definitions-
abbreviated name
A shortened alternative to an object's standard name, made through abbreviations or omitted words. -
alternate name
A recognized or accepted version of an object's name different from its standard name. -
full name
The unabridged official name of an entity, when its standard name is shortened. -
name
The official or most commonly recognized text identifier of an object for a given period and, where applicable, language. -
nickname
An informal, popularly used name for an entity, with common use supported by a widely recognized publication. -
official legal name
The full name of an entity registered with government bodies, including any appended legal identifiers. -
sequence number
The number or letter an object carries inside the group it belongs to, when several members share one name and one address. -
tag
A generic name based on a predefined standard or derivative of multiple standards.
Related definitions
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address
The locally defined location of any structure with respect to the street network. Usually street and house number only. -
connected street
The street that carries on where this one begins or ends, held as a link to that street rather than as a written name. -
coordinates
Geographic position expressed through latitude, longitude, and altitude relative to their reference surfaces and lines. -
defining regions
The regions a composite region consists of, such as the counties that a metropolitan area is made up of. -
geography
The region a building or company belongs to, held as a link to that region rather than as a written place name. -
identifier
An internal or external reference key unique to each structure or other entity. -
legal form
The legal form of a company is the form it takes in the eyes of the law governing it. -
lot number
The cadastral number of the parcel of land a building stands on, as issued by the responsible land register. -
official language
A language given official status in a region by law, which may be one of several and need not be the most widely spoken. -
reference point
Building aspects and reference terms used in measurements or professional descriptions, independent of data organization. -
renovation role
The part a company played in renovating an existing building, as opposed to its role in the original construction.