Dear Richard,
In addition to Franco's comments, not all things having a temporal
dimension are activities. We'll discuss more next week.
I'd not think results of activities can be activities. Shoes are not
shoe-making.
We have here two aspects:
A) the legal declaration or convention
B) the administrative and other activities taking place in the areas,
respecting or being fostered, encouraged or initiated within these
limits. In that sense, yes, the legal act has consequences, not really
results. Isn't it?
Currently, we tend to model them as kinds of geopolitical units, i.e., B)
We discuss the new extension CRMSoc (social), to model legal constructs
respected or not by some communities. They form sorts of legal "states"
(the heavily overloaded word "state", we try to break down into more
specifics).
The tension between paper declarations and actual, observable
administration is a problem. Therefore I prefer the observable.
Martin
On 5/15/2018 7:13 PM, Richard Light wrote:
Hi,
Further to my previous question, and following a trawl through CRMgeo,
I have another one. :-)
How should one represent an administrative unit (such as Burgess Hill,
being the entity which is managed by Burgess Hill Town Council) using
the CRM? It's not a place (certainly not as defined in E53_Place);
nor is it an E74_Group. It's the result of collective human actions
and decisions. Administrative units have a temporal dimension, so
should be a subclass of E7_Activity. They have physical extent
(possibly changing over time). There are different types of
administrative unit, some of which are specifically relevant to
cultural heritage studies: registration districts; census 'pieces'.
Administrative units are created, destroyed, merged with other
administrative units, etc. They have relationships with other
administrative units, both generic containment/adjacency ones, and
also more specific 'administered by' ones.
Many local museum collections cite administrative units when recording
information about the provenance of objects ("metalworking tools from
Little Potton"). They are central to much genealogical research.
What do others think? Out of scope?
Richard
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