Not a vote, but an amateur comment. -> Collection vs Curated Holdings Of course. There are “collections" of things which are not curated, just an assemblage of stuff. Like some old objects I have which I call my collection of old computational instruments, but according to the qualified opinion of my wife is just a dust attractor.
But, what about a collection (oops, curated holdings) of videogames like the one of the National Videogame Museum of Frisco, TX, USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videogame_History_Museum)? It seems that what they collect (oops, “curate and hold”) forms a collection of E28 Conceptual Object rather than E18 Physical Thing. Possibly defining E78 as a curated assemblage of instances of E72 Legal Object or, maybe even better, of E70 Thing (in some cases rights may be difficult to ascertain as in the examples below), would reconcile the CRM with the curators of the Frisco museum; and also simplify life to the curators of the Museo Officina Profumo from the Old Pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, which I hope you will be able to visit when you come here for the next CRM meeting, as well as to their colleagues of the Musèe International du Perfum of Grasse, France. Is fragrance a Physical Thing? What about the exhibitions for visually impaired people consisting in a garden where they smell the scent of different flowers along the visit? -> Holding vs holdings My knowledge of English is even more superficial than my knowledge of the CRM, so my opinion is not so qualified. It seems to me that “holdings” is used here in the plural as a collective noun, and not as the result of putting together one individual “holding" with another one and another one and so on, as a genuine plural; it is unfortunately written in the plural, what makes pluralizing it a bit awkward if one wants to keep the “holdings" distinct from each other, as Werner has pointed out. Not only: it makes difficult to express indefiniteness as when using the indefinite article “a” to indicate “one of a series", like in the second sentence of this email where I was in trouble being unable to call it “a curated holdings” as “a” cannot go with “holdings”. So what would be the correct way of expressing the equivalent of “a collection” i.e. one instance whatever of the class “curated holdings”? Wouldn't the sentence "Is_A curated_holdings” describing a future subclass of E78 sound strange? Finally, holdings is a synonym of property, according to my Oxford dictionary, which is not the case if the objects forming the collection (oops, holdings) are just deposited, on lean, or illegally/controversially detained. There are famous examples of the latter. So I would prefer “curated set” or better “curated assemblage”, being “set" a very generic term not incorporating the concept of intentionality. Anyway, this concern about a name is not so important: that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. More important is, in my opinion, the issue concerning E18 vs E28 => E72/E70 to characterize the components of E78, as noted above. Looking forward to meet you here, Franco Prof. Franco Niccolucci Director, VAST-LAB PIN - U. of Florence Scientific Coordinator ARIADNE - PARTHENOS Piazza Ciardi 25 59100 Prato, Italy > Il giorno 05 feb 2016, alle ore 12:19, Chryssoula Bekiari > <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > 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 > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chryssoula Bekiari > Research and Development Engineer > > Center for Cultural Informatics / Information Systems Laboratory > Institute of Computer Science > Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) > > N. Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, GR-700 13 Heraklion, Crete, Greece > Phone: +30 2810 391631, Fax: +30 2810 391638, Skype: xrysmp > E-mail: [email protected] > > Web-site: > http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl/people/people_individual.jsp?Person_ID=13 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig
