Extracting the passive activity question from the Rights thread…
In order to relate activities that take place during the ownership of an object by an organization, such as conservation or even just checking that it’s still where it is thought to be (inventorying), it would be nice to have either a passive activity to represent the ownership of the object that these activities are part of. The issue with the ontology at the moment is that these sorts of things fall between E5 Event and E7 Activity – the ownership is of the object (and hence the use of P16 used specific object, which has E7 as domain) but there are no “actions intentionally carried out … that result in changes”. For example, the ownership of an heirloom spoon by a family over 4 generations. The family (as a group, with different members of time) carries out the ownership, which uses the specific object of the E22 spoon. But if it is simply sitting on a shelf, there is no intention towards change. Or the ownership of a painting by an art dealer, where most of the time it simply hangs on the wall, but every year there is an inventory activity as part of that ownership which asserts it is still owned. If the sale of the painting is not recorded, this inventory gives us a begin of the begin for the timespan in which the sale occurred. If this sort of inactive activity is okay, it would be nice to add a clarification :) Rob
