Version: 55 (current) | Updated: 11/13/2025, 10:56:55 PM
Added description
**Extraction – new collection entity from the PINAX file**
```cheimarr
@faculty_minutes_volume_2:document {
title: "FMCP Faculty Minutes Volume 2",
creator: @female_medical_college_of_pennsylvania,
institution: @drexel_production,
created_range: "1850-1863",
language: "en-US",
subjects: [
"Medical education","Faculty meetings","Women's medical colleges","19th century medicine",
"College administration","Academic governance","Committee reports","Graduation candidates",
"Academic degrees","Bylaws","Correspondence","Hospital","Advertising","Candidate Evaluations",
"College governance"
],
description: "A collection of faculty meeting minutes and administrative documents from the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, spanning 1850‑1863. Includes discussions on academic degrees, bylaws, committees, correspondence, college administration, and various faculty appointments and evaluations.",
place: [@philadelphia, @ohio, @pennsylvania, @albany_new_york, @washington_dc, @college]
}
```
**Link the PINAX metadata file to the new collection**
```cheimarr
@file_pinax -> documents -> @faculty_minutes_volume_2:document
```
**Series‑level abstraction (connects both volumes)**
```cheimarr
@faculty_meetings_series:concept {
description: "Series of faculty‑meeting minute collections for the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania covering 1850‑1863"
}
```
```cheimarr
@faculty_minutes_volume_2:document -> part_of -> @faculty_meetings_series:concept
@faculty_meeting_collection:document -> part_of -> @faculty_meetings_series:concept // volume 1 (1850‑1860)
```
**Aggregated events captured across the two volumes**
```cheimarr
@faculty_minutes_volume_2:document -> aggregates -> [
@faculty_meeting_minutes_february_1853:event,
@meeting_oct_17_1860:event,
@meeting_dec_18_1860:event,
@meeting_jan_7_1861:event,
@meeting_jan_12_1861:event,
@meeting_jan_21_1861:event,
@meeting_feb_20_1861:event,
@meeting_mar_5_1861:event,
@commencement_9th_1861:event,
@meeting_feb_6_1862:event,
@meeting_feb_13_1862:event,
@meeting_sep_13_1862:event,
@meeting_oct_12_1862:event,
@meeting_feb_7_1863:event,
@meeting_mar_4_1863:event
]
```
**Subject and place coverage (mirroring PINAX metadata)**
```cheimarr
@faculty_minutes_volume_2:document -> covers_subject -> [
"Medical education","Faculty meetings","Women's medical colleges","19th century medicine",
"College administration","Academic governance","Committee reports","Graduation candidates",
"Academic degrees","Bylaws","Correspondence","Hospital","Advertising","Candidate Evaluations",
"College governance"
]
@faculty_minutes_volume_2:document -> mentions_place -> [
@philadelphia, @ohio, @pennsylvania, @albany_new_york, @washington_dc, @college
]
```
**Cross‑person continuity (recurring administrators & faculty)**
```cheimarr
@faculty_minutes_volume_2:document -> mentions_person -> [
@dr_cleveland, @dr_fussell, @ann_preston, @john_fussell, @edward_h_cleveland,
@kerr, @temple, @russell, @sample, @cleveland, @scarlett, @booth
]
```
*The above links show that the same core administrators (e.g., @dr_cleveland, @dr_fussell, @ann_preston) appear in meetings throughout the entire 1850‑1863 span, underscoring institutional continuity.*
**Synthesis – connecting the two sub‑directory clusters**
1. **Series cohesion** – Both the earlier collection (`@faculty_meeting_collection:document`) and the new volume (`@faculty_minutes_volume_2:document`) are members of the unified series `@faculty_meetings_series:concept`, establishing a single chronological narrative of faculty governance.
2. **Temporal chain of meetings** – The aggregated events list bridges the 1850‑1860 meetings (volume 1) with the 1860‑1863 meetings (volume 2), creating a continuous timeline from the first recorded meeting (`@meeting_1850_03_07:event`) through the final documented meeting (`@meeting_oct_31_1863:event`) and culminating in the 1863 Commencement.
3. **Committee evolution** – Committee entities first introduced in volume 1 (`@commencement_committee`, `@advertising_committee`, `@publication_committee`) re‑appear and expand in volume 2 (e.g., `@committee_museum`, `@committee_beneficiaries`, `@committee_museum_inventory`). This demonstrates a pattern of functional committee formation responding to emerging administrative needs.
4. **Governance & by‑law continuity** – Voting methods (“white/black vote tally”) and by‑law amendment processes documented in the 1857‑1859 meetings persist in the 1860‑1863 minutes, indicating stable procedural frameworks across the decade.
5. **Geographic reach** – Both collections repeatedly reference the same set of places, confirming the college’s operational footprint across Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and Washington, D.C., and reinforcing the geographic dimension of the series.
6. **Recurring personnel** – The `@mentions_person` relationship highlights that a core group of faculty and administrators (e.g., @dr_cleveland, @dr_fussell, @ann_preston) consistently participated in meetings, elections, and committee work throughout the entire period, providing a human thread that ties the disparate sub‑directories together.
---
*The knowledge graph now integrates the new PINAX‑derived collection with the previously extracted events, people, committees, and places, delivering a cohesive, cross‑subdirectory view of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania’s faculty governance from 1850 to 1863.*More versions available (pagination not yet implemented)
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