Me too! Pat Riva Associate University Librarian, Collection Services Concordia University Vanier Library (VL-301-61) 7141 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, QC H4B 1R6 Canada +1-514-848-2424 ext. 5255 [email protected] _______________________________________ From: Crm-sig [[email protected]] on behalf of Stephen Stead [[email protected]] Sent: February 10, 2016 11:11 AM To: 'martin'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Crm-sig] VOTE for the name of E78 Collection
I vote for Curated Holding without the S Stephen Stead Tel +44 20 8668 3075 Mob +44 7802 755 013 E-mail [email protected] LinkedIn Profile http://uk.linkedin.com/in/steads -----Original Message----- From: Crm-sig [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of martin Sent: 06 February 2016 19:15 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Crm-sig] VOTE for the name of E78 Collection Good point! "Curated Holding" hence... On 6/2/2016 9:20 πμ, Wolfgang Schmidle wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(2810)391625 | Research Director | Fax:+30(2810)391638 | | Email: [email protected] | | Center for Cultural Informatics | Information Systems Laboratory | Institute of Computer Science | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) | | N.Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, | GR70013 Heraklion,Crete,Greece | | Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl | -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Crm-sig mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig _______________________________________________ Crm-sig mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig
