Location description & management

• What are the sites
• Location types
  • Examples of location links to other records
• Site hierarchy

Location is a universal object indicating space – both virtual and physical. Objects, activities and events are linked to the location

Localities are the basis of the property register. They allow both the registration of sites directly and the registration of assets to record their location. It is possible to associate the activities of the administration (control, inventory, maintenance, planning) with the sites as well as with the asset.

What are the sites

The location can be of different types:

• Area
• Building – floor – location
• Notebook, or computer rack – position in the rack
• Wardrobe – shelf

Location types

Location are separated by basic types:

• Spatial location are those sites that include a walking area, however small – both outdoor and indoor. Typical examples are fields, forests, but also rooms and warehouses
• Physical location are physical spaces allowing things to be placed, but without walking the area. Typically these are shelves and seagulls (computer spaces), but also safes, shafts, etc. enclosed spaces.
• Information spaces are real information spaces – typically bulletin boards, also virtual – data fields, cloud, etc. The web board is somewhere on the border of both spaces

Examples of location links to other records

• Information is located in different types of information spaces
• Information spaces belong to a specific physical space (hierarchy of the sites themselves)
• Cupboard and spatial locations may contain different assets. For example, a fire extinguisher may be registered as room equipment and may be stored in a built-in cupboard
• The [worker's] department(/doc/en/hr/hrstaffer) is located in the office (site links to the HR department)
• The office is the responsibility of the head of the department (site links office to the responsible person – worker/user)
• There are [meetings] held in the office(/doc/en/tsk/tskmeeting) (office space site is the site of the event – meeting)
• Site is planned for revision control (site is bound by planned task i quality criteria, which are controlled)

Site hierarchy

Sites of different types can be inserted, but only in a way set by rules that are set between sites. Similarly, rules can be limited as to what can be linked to which site. Rules are always set for the specific use of the system. Within the open platform aymine.cz there is a natural logic that restricts inserting larger spaces into smaller ones (it is not possible to insert e.g. a meadow on a bulletin board).