Is the s in "holdings" necessary?
http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/holdings suggests using the
plural, but to me as a non-native speaker it seems that "holdings" can
also mean, to a varying degree, the items in a collection rather than
the collection as a whole.
Google says:
1. "curated holdings"
* Of the >3 million curated holdings, approximately 75% of are
identified to genus level or better.
* Curated holdings have more than doubled (factor of 2.5) over the last
20 years.
* Total fully curated holdings comprise approximately 320,000 specimens
in 1,380 drawers [as part of the Diptera collection having approximately
897,000 specimens]
* “Wine Wednesdays” provide half-off savings on any bottle of wine from
the restaurant's well-curated holdings, which boast more than 1,500 ...
--> at least in the first two examples: the items in a collection rather
than the collection as a whole?
* Curated holdings should be visible, as appropriate.
* There, forty exhibitors straight from Bruno's enviable Rolodex will
showcase their curated holdings of twentieth-century fine and decorative
arts.
--> more than one collection
2. "curated holding"
* the Lexington Collection, a select and carefully curated holding of
gorgeous Greek and Roman coins
* As the largest, most comprehensive, and best-curated holding of
arthropods, predominately insects, ...
* "Unhinged," is a curated group exhibition of nearly 225 artists from
Pierogi's Flat Files ..., itself a curated holding of over 800 artists'
works.
--> a single collection
With E78 Curated Holding, on the other hand, it may be confusing if one
talks about two E78's, i.e. Curated Holdings.
What was the argument against Steve Stead's suggestion "curated set"
(apart from the fact that "nobody would know what it meant")? What about
"curated collection"?
Best,
Wolfgang
Am 05.02.16 um 12:19 schrieb Chryssoula Bekiari:
Dear All
In the last meeting, the crm-sig meeting decided to vote for the name
of E78 Collection (issue 270). The proposal is to rename the E78
Collection to E78 Curated Holdings
Please vote
Chryssoula
