2010/11/8 Tom Chance <t...@acrewoods.net>: > On 8 November 2010 10:53, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <dieterdre...@gmail.com> > wrote:
> We are on thin ice in every distinction in the culture category, frankly. As > I wrote earlier, thousands of years of debate and linguistic ambiguity can't > be condensed into a completely clear tagging schema. agreed > Let me try to restate the distinction. The use of the word "primary" is all > important, because of course on can buy art works at all three, and all > three in some sense exhibit art works. +1 > shop=art: a shop whose owners' primary purpose is to sell individual art > works (and often prints, postcards, framing services) +1 > culture=art_gallery: a place where the primary purpose is the temporary > exhibition of art works for artistic appreciation _and_ who nevertheless sell art? saatchi for instance I'm not sure if the do it "principally for artistic appreciation". > culture=museum, museum=art (or similar): a place where the primary purpose > is to hold permanent exhibitions of art works for artistic appreciation and > study I don't agree on "permanent". Many museums have changing exhibitions. But the also have a collection. Maybe this could be the key: do the expose the art which they own or lend from other museums, or do the expose "on commission" (until someone buys it, it remains property of the artist-> gallery). I would consider tate britain or tate modern museums and not galleries for instance. > On a more general note, relying too heavily on the name of a place would be > very bad practice. In the UK at least there are very few places that fit > your definiton of an "art museum" with museum in the name. There are also > some shops I know of with "gallery" in the name, but that shouldn't be > considered art galleries. +1 cheers, Martin PS: I invited the italian and german mailing list subscribers to join this discussion to hopefully augment the participation. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
