The Olympics is a great generative sort of example from the cultural
heritage community. Another that may help bring home the importance of, if
not elucidate the semantics for, "event" as type is that of live theater or
concert performances--which people may need to discover by date, local
sponsors, use of understudies, warmup bands, location, attendance by
teapot-hoisting dignitaries, etc. I believe that the museum community also
is interested in capturing exhibitions as mutable "resources".
Further discussion of this possible "type" is on the agenda for the
Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information DC Working
Group Sept. 21-23 in Santa Monica. I hope that this list will entertain
further comment after the 20 participating cutural institutions from 8
countries have that opportunity to re-visit this idea and create some
well-thought out examples for consideration by the wider community.
Erin Stewart
At 9/9/98 09:58 AM, Alex Satrapa wrote:
>Simon Pockley wrote:
>
>> On Sep 8, 1:21pm, Jul,Erik wrote:
>>
>> > Perhaps someone who actually wants or needs to create metadata records
>> > for events could enlighten the list with an example and an explanation.
>>
>> If I could add another example: I was involved in a live cam conversation
>> (CuSeeMe), between New York and Australia. ...
>
>Umm... howabout this for an example of an event...
>
>In the year 2000, hundreds of athletes from around the world will be
gathering in
>and around Homebush Olympic Center, Sydney, Australia.
>
>This *EVENT* (all-capitals, flashing lights, whathaveyou) will be recorded
in many
>forms including video tape, audio tracks and photographs (both digital and
the
>antiquated chemical paper form ;). People will be taking home souvenirs
from this
>event, including olympic flags, gold, silver and bronze medallions, and
even blades
>of grass from the stadium(s? stadii?).
>
>A video recording of the Olympics will be just that - a video recording of
the
>Olympics. The video itself isn't the Olympics. The Olympics will be (have
been) a
>transient event.
>
>To me, the recording of "metadata" about an event seems important, but I'm
not sure
>that an event can be "indicated" (recorded/remembered/signified/whatever)
by the
>usual DC set. Who is the publisher of the Olympics? Who is the
author/creator?
>
>You could stretch the model and say that the Publisher of the Olympics is the
>SOC/IOC, with the joint authors being every single athlete, umpire,
referee, timer,
>water server, grounds keeper... ad nauseum.
>
>If we feel that an Event can be squeezed into our document-oriented
metadata model,
>then we must have sub-elements dc.date.start, dc.date.finish (which could
otherwise
>be the dates on which a composer started and finished a particular
composition).
>
>Just my two bits worth...
>-Alex
>
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