Dear All,
Here my proposal to make clear that an auction lot or exhibition set is
not a curated holding:
*OLD*
E78 Curated Holding
Subclass of:
E24 <#_heading=h.2dlolyb> Physical Human-Made Thing
Scope note:
This class comprises aggregations of instances of E18 Physical Thing
that are assembled and maintained (“curated” and “preserved,” in
museological terminology) by one or more instances of E39 Actor over
time for a specific purpose and audience, and according to a particular
collection development plan. Typical instances of curated holdings are
museum collections, archives, library holdings and digital libraries. A
digital library is regarded as an instance of E18 Physical Thing because
it requires keeping physical carriers of the electronic content.
Items may be added or removed from an E78 Curated Holding in pursuit of
this plan. This class should not be confused with the E39 Actor
maintaining the E78 Curated Holding often referred to with the name of
the E78 Curated Holding (e.g. “The Wallace Collection decided…”).
Collective objects in the general sense, like a tomb full of gifts, a
folder with stamps or a set of chessmen, should be documented as
instances of E19 Physical Object, and not as instances of E78 Curated
Holding. This is because they form wholes either because they are
physically bound together or because they are kept together for their
functionality.
Examples:
the John Clayton Herbarium
the Wallace Collection (Ingamells, 1990)
Mikael Heggelund Foslie’s coralline red algae Herbarium at Museum of
Natural History and Archaeology, Trondheim, Norway
The Digital Collections of the Munich DigitiZation Center (MDZ)
accessible via https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/
<https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/>at least in January 2018.
In First Order Logic:
E78(x) ⇒E24(x)
Properties:
P109 <#_heading=h.ibhxtv> has current or former curator (is current or
former curator of): E39 <#_heading=h.pkwqa1> Actor
*NEW*
Scope note:
This class comprises aggregations of instances of E18 Physical Thing
that are assembled and maintained (“curated” and “preserved,” in
museological terminology) by one or more instances of E39 Actor over
time for a specific purpose and audience, and according to a particular
collection development plan. *The diachronic identity of an instance of
curated holdings is given by the continuity of the evolution of its
contents according to the same development plan and its adequate
modifications, and not by any essential part. Essential changes of the
development plan and a corresponding reorganization of the curated
holdings may however be regarded as transformation into a new instance
of curated holdings. *
Typical instances of curated holdings are museum collections, archives,
library holdings and digital libraries. A digital library is regarded as
an instance of E18 Physical Thing because it requires keeping physical
carriers of the electronic content.
Items may be added or removed from an E78 Curated Holding in pursuit of
this plan. This class should not be confused with the E39 Actor
maintaining the E78 Curated Holding often referred to with the name of
the E78 Curated Holding (e.g. “The Wallace Collection decided…”).
Collective objects in the general sense, like a tomb full of gifts, a
folder with stamps or a set of chessmen, should be documented as
instances of E19 Physical Object, *and not as instances of E78 Curated
Holding, because, in contrast to the above, their identity is given by
the constellation of their parts, physically bound together or kept
together for their functionality, regardless whether parts are lost,
destroyed, or replaced by substitutes and regardless the duration of the
process that brought them together into their identifying constellation.*
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Dr. Martin Doerr
Honorary Head of the
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
Vox:+30(2810)391625
Email: mar...@ics.forth.gr
Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl
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