Jon Knight wrote:
> The IRC channel _is_ the event as far as I can see. ... If anything,
> the venue is the IRC servers that host the IRC session.
Ick.
Howabout... an IRC channel contains a series of events, which happen to blend into one
another? An IRC channel, from my perspective, is like a shopping mall, a nightclub or a
cafe. It's an abstract place where things are always happening. Yes, the metadata for an
event might point directly to the IRC channel, but what's the point of being shoved into
an IRC channel 2 days after the reported event has occured (and finished)?
> > In my opinion, the article with the URL and date/time for the IRC event
> ^^^^^
> venue? :-)
IRC event in the same tone as traffic accident. Unless you're a particularly bad driver,
in which case traffic *is* an accident, as opposed to *has* accidents.
> > would be DC.Type=text.promotion, rather than DC.Type=event.authority.
>
> I agree that a metadata record that pointed to an article that avertised
> an IRC session would be text.promotion. But that's not what I was getting
> at. The DC metadata could point directly at the IRC session, not a
> document describing the IRC session. BIG difference IMHO.
Yeah... the metadata for an event would have a pointer to the venue for the event (either
a link to a web forum, IRC channel or Jenny-Cam, or a link to a document describing the
building the event was held in). Some IRC channels are continuous non-events (ie:
#chatzone), while others are constantly changing between events (eg: the female-dominated
vs. male-dominated time scapes on #leschat)
If an event authority record is available for an event that is currently running, that's
similar to having an invitation in front of you.
If a page you're looking at has a link to the IRC channel, saying "come join in the
event", then what you have is a link to the IRC channel. That does not constitute
metadata relating the the event. However, I expect an event authority record could have a
manifestation as a web page, with a link to the IRC channel that an event is going to
occur/is now occuring/has occured on.
Being 3am, I don't expect that this message really makes sense - but I can feel cold
chills going up my spine when I start thinking of an IRC channel trying to be an event,
rather than a venue.
Sorry to all of you reading this who don't give a brass razoo about IRC, but this
discussion applies to any real-time interactive media too - eg MUD, ytalk, or
2-way-radio. (Winsor, Charles (Prince) & Unidentified female, mobile phone
conversation... I'm sure you get the picture).
Thanks for your patience
-Alex Satrapa
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