Dear All,
I am not happy with the scope note of E70:
"This general class comprises usable discrete, identifiable, instances of E77
Persistent Item that
are documented as single units.
They can be either intellectual products or physical things, and are
characterized by relative stability. They
may for instance either have a solid physical form, an electronic encoding, or
they may be logical concept or structure."
I propose:
"This general class comprises discrete, identifiable, instances of E77
Persistent Item that
are documented as single units, that either consist of matter or depend on
being carried by matter
and are characterized by relative stability.
They may be intellectual products or physical things. They
may for instance have a solid physical form, an electronic encoding, or
they may be a logical concept or structure."
Reasons:
The current definition is, besides others, incompatible with fluids in bottles,
geological concepts
and some archaeological samples, which we would not like to exclude. I suggest
to get rid of the
enumerative "either or", which is in contradiction to a definition by substance.
Best,
martin
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