Hi Phil
also, no schematic reached me.
best wishes
Nick Boldrini
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>>> "CARLISLE, Philip" <[log in to unmask]>
07/02/2007 09:51 >>>
Dear all
Having cogitated, ruminated, pondered and, indeed, thought about this
long and somewhat hard-ish. I have now come to the following
conclusion.
Materials are, by their very nature, organic (from plants and animals)
or inorganic (from other stuff such as rocks and things).
This therefore would appear to give us our top terms.
Below these we would have (under organic) Animal and Vegetal and (under
inorganic) Mineral.
Inorganic would also be used to cover manmade materials (should that be
person-made in these PC days?) such as plastics etc. Although whether
this is technically correct for those manmade materials made from
organic products, such as plastics made form oil, I don't know.
I'm also proposing we have another top term called Forms - this would
cover all those things from the Material <By form> hierarchy in the
current building materials thesaurus: brick, tile, timber etc.
By including this we wouldn't have to re-index all those brick or
timber-framed buildings. Nor indeed add additional layers of complexity
by indexing everything with fired clay or mud etc.
I think the artificiality of differentiating between building materials
and object materials can be done away with. Any introductory information
attached to the thesaurus could state, quite clearly, that the thesaurus
can be used to record both but that they should be used with caution.
I've attached a schematic for your perusal.
What do people think?
Phil
Phil Carlisle
Data Standards Supervisor
English Heritage
National Monuments Record Centre
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Swindon
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