Hi everyone,
The CIMI DC Working Group offers the following EVENT definition (which
we've shortened a little from Simon's excellent draft hoping to buy points
with those favoring brevity). Thank you all for your thought-provoking
comments on this idea--we plan to explore cultural heritage resource Event
examples more fully in our meetings next week.
"EVENT - Non-persistent, time-based phenomenon. Metadata for an event
describes the purpose, location, duration, responsible agents, and links to
related events and actualized resources. Event metadata may identify a
nonretrievable resource in that the described instantiation has expired.
Examples include exhibition, web-cast, conference, workshop, open-day,
performance, battle, trial, wedding, tea-party, conflagration, for which
actualized resources may include photographs, transcripts, or artefacts, etc."
Erin Stewart
At 9/12/98 10:43 AM, Simon Cox wrote:
>Weibel,Stu wrote:
>>
>> does the term non-persistent add anything to the phrase time-based?
>
>I thought so when I typed it. I guess I was thinking that
>a film or sound recording would be considered "time-based"
>by close readers, but recordings are persistent,
>and should be different DC.Types.
>
>>
>> Also, I don't quite understand the function of the clauses "will often
>> involve..." and "may lead..."
>
>Here I was tilting towards a particular set of examples
>without being quite explicit so's not to rabbit on too long.
>This was really indicating the same thing as your relations
>based definition (which I hope you noted I adapted for inclusion),
>but in language closer to examples.
>
>Perhaps replace "will often" with "may"?
>I wouldn't like to remove these clauses however.
>
>> what if neither of these holds? or just one?
>
>That's fine.
>
>
>Jul,Erik wrote:
>>
>> Simon:
>>
>> > event -
>> > non-persistent, time-based resources.
>> [Jul,Erik]
>>
>> Are not events "time-and-space-based" resources?
>
>Not always "space". Look at the IRC discussion.
>As I noted earlier, it is interesting to contrast
>physical-object (often space based, though maybe
>with an adjustable reference frame) and event
>(always time based, probably not adjustable reference).
>
>
>> > An event will often involve the transformation of source resources
>> [Jul,Erik]
>>
>> You are using a certain type of event (transformative) as the
>> definition of event. The definition says "often." How often?
>
>I'll change that to "may".
>
>
>> How is an exhibition a transformative event?
>
>The objects exhibited have now been selected for exhibition.
>Because of this they have had some meaning added for one audience at least.
>See discussions by David Bearman ...
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