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
|