Role of author of Golden kingdoms : luxury arts in the ancient Americas catalogue
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Sun, 01/01/2017 - 00:00 - Sun, 12/31/2017 - 00:00
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Role of sponsor
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Sherman Fairchild Foundation →Worlding institution entity: E74 Group
Class E74 Group is used here to model groups of people who act collectively or in a similar way due to any form of unifying relationship. A unifying relationship or characteristic may be observed and assigned externally but it is not necessarily a lived experience or observed from inside the group. As such our perception of persons being part of a group may not reflect the persons’ perception.
Name of group
Sherman Fairchild Foundation →Worlding appellation entity: E41 Appellation
Class E41 Appellation is used here to model names of things including places and people. The scope note of E41 Appellation explains that names are not considered as meaningful but as conventions. A name is used by convention even if there is a meaning attached to it. It is possible that names mentioned in the WPC database also hold a meaning which is significant for the thing they refer to as part of its identity. If this is the case, then this class and content type cannot capture that meaning.
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Role of curator at Golden Kingdoms. Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas
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→Worlding institution entity: E74 Group
Class E74 Group is used here to model groups of people who act collectively or in a similar way due to any form of unifying relationship. A unifying relationship or characteristic may be observed and assigned externally but it is not necessarily a lived experience or observed from inside the group. As such our perception of persons being part of a group may not reflect the persons’ perception.
Joanne Pillsbury →Worlding person entity: E21 Person
Class E21 Person is used here to model people. The scope note for this class uses the term ‘historical figures’ which may be considered as problematic especially when references are made to established conventional historical textbooks. Marking a person as a ‘historical figure’ implies an assessment of their importance in history and as such it provides little room to accommodate those who are not written in the historical text books, who are invisible or hidden. Clarification is needed on the use of the term in the scope note to include any person who has existed regardless of their contextual history. The examples included in the scope note are Western focused and the scope note should be revised to make visible historical actors, by referring to the histories of resistance of people of color. The class E21 Person and its superclass E39 Actor imply that after one’s death there is no capacity for agency. The necessity of being alive excludes experiences of dead people being present in rituals from various religions. Class E39 Actor does not include non-human actors. While examples are rare and almost always correspond to documenting species as opposed to individual organisms (for example the performance piece FreePort), this class is not suitable to describe the agency of animals. Additionally, from other perspectives and ontologies an object has as much agency as a person, for example the Benin bronzes being considered as living ancestors and the agency of the sacred altars of K’iche’ Maya.
Professional title
Andrall E. Pearson Curator in the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Metropolitan Museum of Art →Worlding institution entity: E74 Group
Class E74 Group is used here to model groups of people who act collectively or in a similar way due to any form of unifying relationship. A unifying relationship or characteristic may be observed and assigned externally but it is not necessarily a lived experience or observed from inside the group. As such our perception of persons being part of a group may not reflect the persons’ perception.
Name of group
Metropolitan Museum of Art →Worlding appellation entity: E41 Appellation
Class E41 Appellation is used here to model names of things including places and people. The scope note of E41 Appellation explains that names are not considered as meaningful but as conventions. A name is used by convention even if there is a meaning attached to it. It is possible that names mentioned in the WPC database also hold a meaning which is significant for the thing they refer to as part of its identity. If this is the case, then this class and content type cannot capture that meaning.
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J Paul Getty Museum →Worlding institution entity: E74 Group
Class E74 Group is used here to model groups of people who act collectively or in a similar way due to any form of unifying relationship. A unifying relationship or characteristic may be observed and assigned externally but it is not necessarily a lived experience or observed from inside the group. As such our perception of persons being part of a group may not reflect the persons’ perception.
Name of group
J Paul Getty Museum →Worlding appellation entity: E41 Appellation
Class E41 Appellation is used here to model names of things including places and people. The scope note of E41 Appellation explains that names are not considered as meaningful but as conventions. A name is used by convention even if there is a meaning attached to it. It is possible that names mentioned in the WPC database also hold a meaning which is significant for the thing they refer to as part of its identity. If this is the case, then this class and content type cannot capture that meaning.
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English
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Location of Golden Kingdoms. Luxury and Legacy in the Ancient Americas →Worlding place entity: E53 Place
Class E53 Place is used here to model geographical areas and locations. Mapping this content type to this class only models place based on the immaterial, mathematical area as defined with a frame of reference and as such it is not appropriate to express the physicality of space which is important. Also this class does not include temporality of places which is critical in a cultural context. A different model could make use of class ‘E27 Site’ which relates to the mathematical notion of E53 Places through property ‘P156 occupies’. That alternative solution is more complex but models place more accurately albeit using more than one class. Another problem with the concept of geometrical place is the fact that boundaries which do not exist in the physical world are needed to define it. This brings up questions around the agency of the people creating these boundaries, naming them and the problem of abstraction in maps which is reductive.