I’ve been throwing around (with another library programmer) the idea of expressing XOBIS as a Topic Map. He is knowledgeable about Topic Maps (TMs). I, while interested in them, wouldn’t say I’ve drunk the kool-aid quite yet. My interest in doing this mapping of (X)OBIS into TM (Topic Map) form is to better understand how [...]
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XOBIS and Museum Data
Yesterday I (and several other library folks) had an interesting meeting with the art museum people on campus. They were kind enough to give us a tour of the art museum’s new content management system. I was particularly interested in seeing this system because I haven’t had much exposure to the museum world (but have [...]
CLOWNPOETS
One humorous little post while I’m thinking about it. XOBIS has ten principal elements: Concept, Language, Object, Work, Being, Place, Object, Event, Time, String. The first letters of these element names don’t add up to anything. An earlier version of the schema, though, used Name instead of Being. This, of course, spells CLOWNPOETS. We wanted [...]
Antelope, Document
Many thanks to Lorcan Dempsey's weblog for pointing me to Michael Buckland's very interesting paper, "What is a document?" This preprint of an article published in JASIS asks whether sculpture, museum objects, and live animals could be considered "documents." This is a Xobian question if I've ever heard one. The paper starts off by tracing [...]
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