Luca Frosini (ISTI - CNR)
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
- Mikael Heggelund Foslie’s coralline red algae Herbarium at Museum of Natural History and Archaeology,
Trondheim, Norway
In First Order Logic:
E78(x) ⊃ E24(x)
Properties:
P109 has current or former curator (is current or former curator of): E39 Actor
Field Summary
Fields inherited from interface org.gcube.informationsystem.model.entity.Resource
CONSISTS_OF_PROPERTY, IS_RELATED_TO_PROPERTY, NAME
Fields inherited from interface org.gcube.informationsystem.model.ER
HEADER_PROPERTY
Fields inherited from interface org.gcube.informationsystem.model.ISManageable
CLASS_PROPERTY, SUPERCLASSES_PROPERTY
Method Summary
Methods inherited from interface org.gcube.informationsystem.model.entity.Resource