Logseq/Entity/Identity
Identity
- In this garden, Identity pages model a public name under which a person or collective publishes, performs or makes work.
What counts
- A stage name, pen name, named artistic project or collective with a recognizable body of work. The identity has a page separate from the biographical people behind it.
- A person's ordinary biographical name alone does not require a second page. A spelling variant or abbreviation that names the same identity can remain an alias.
- A shared credit does not by itself establish a new collective identity. A collaboration can credit several existing identities.
Naming and marking
- Use the published name as a short page title, such as Bibio. Entity classification belongs in frontmatter, rather than in an
Identity/ prefix on every instance. - Add a disambiguating namespace only when the published name collides with another page.
- Mark an instance with its most specific identity entity; a Band instance leaves Identity and Music Identity out of
logseq-entity::. - A person can have several identities, and a collective identity can have several people behind it. Identity pages carry identity entities; biographical pages carry person or maker entities.
Relationships
- Logseq/Entity/Identity/Frontmatter/identity-of links an identity to known people behind it. Unknown people are left unstated.
- Logseq/Frontmatter/created-by-identities links a work or release to its credited identities. A link to an identity does not imply that every associated person contributed to every work.
- A work's
created-by:: links the known people who made that particular work. Identity membership alone is insufficient evidence for a personal credit.
Finding and deduplicating
- Search published names, existing titles, aliases, official URLs and person-page mentions before creating an identity.
- When the identity exists only as an alias on a person page, retain the biographical page and separate the identity from that alias before creating its page. Other aliases and the person's biographical information remain with the person.
- Older pages under
Group/ can already represent collective identities. Their existing titles remain valid until deliberately renamed.
Instance shape
- One linked H1 with the published name and official URL when known, a short description, and verified links to the people behind the identity.
- The shared attribution property is linked above; domain-specific placement of works and recordings is defined by the corresponding identity child and work entity.
Child entities
Frontmatter