Dear all,
We are in the middle of a major campaign called "History Matters". Why
then don't we know our own history? I refer everybody to the notes made
of the ALGAO SMR Sub-committee Event -Monument Seminar held on 13
October 1998. All of what we have been discussing was set out at that
seminar, and the majority of curators have been working on that basis
since then.
Phil asks "If monuments are not 'things' then what are they?". As I
said in my previous e-mails, they are "interpretations". Simon asks "I
cannot see why it cannot be an event albeit an historical one, how would
you classify the excavations of Troy by Schliemann?" In my previous
e-mail, I noted the confusion between recording events and historical
events. Under the Monument - Event - Source schema, an Event is defined
as "a single episode, i.e. using a single investigative technique of
data collection, over a discrete area of land". Schliemann's excavation
at Troy would thus be an Event (or series of Events). The Great Fire of
London would not be so under this definition.
The 1998 seminar identified that it would not be possible to interpret
some information to produce a Monument, or that it might be hard to put
some data derived from Events into a coherent, i.e. Monument, form. But
this is exactly what Ed was talking about in his e-mail when he said he
wanted to "explore *new* concepts that MIDAS Heritage (the 2nd edition
title) will extend into, beyond the EMA model". I think Theme is a good
starting point for this new category / concept for data or information
that does not fit easily into the EMA model.
Cheers,
Neil
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