Humanities ontology requirements and design discussion
At the request of the Duke and Brown VIVO implementation teams we are having a work session on modeling things like acting, archives and portfolios, CD recordings and liner notes, catalogs and catalog essays, choreography collections, commissions, compositions and performances of those compositions, architectural design projects, conducting, directing, dramaturgy, exhibitions, exhibition series, festival participation, film, graphic design, group shows, guest teaching, installations, master classes, photography, prints, public lectures, radio broadcasts, radio interviews, puppetry, scene design, sculptures, solo performances, workshops. Please join in or comment if you're interested.
One approach is to first decide general categories –
- What of the above are new kinds of outputs, similar to publications but in a different form?
- is a set design just embodied in the performance or is it documented through drawings and photos that persist and would be citable after the performance is over?
- What things are more like roles that contribute to events (including performances and exhibits)
- is the realization of the role of actor, set designer or choreographer in a performance sufficient to record, without any notion of output?
- Are there things that fall more in the category of awards or professional service?
Professional Practice –
The Vivo profile has been utilized for our faculty in an inaccurate manner regarding their professional practice. Architectural practice and Art exhibitions are being categorized under “Talks and Presentations.” This is not an accurate way to describe this very important part of our faculty’s research. Faculty who make their research, as opposed to writing about it, need to have their work portrayed in a manner that does not imply a one-day effort such as a talk or presentation. Can there not be a separate category for Practice? To see a particularly poor representation of this, please see Maria Park’s profile where her exhibitions all appear as though they were a one-hour talk given at these locations, and making the “solo” specification seem particularly out of place as opposed to the distinction it is meant to portray.
This also brings up the need for distinguishing between being the creator of a work vs. being the subject of the work.
Notes from the meeting
Duke is looking at the existing data in the current faculty reporting system (SES) and trying to represent it in VIVO
- Art (Visual Studies and Art History)
- Dance
- Theater
- Music
Brown has a lot of interaction with the Rhode Island School of Design – working on committees there, curating exhibits, serving as some sort of a judge; they are looking at a number of departments and have a database table called Artistic Works that have been pulled from the faculty CVs. There are also broader issues with the humanities to discuss in a less immediate sense.
- Being on a review committee
- Related to book reviews but more of a role than an output publication
- In looking at Music, there is the notion of going on a tour performing a particular music or theater piece authored or directed by a faculty member – and performing multiple roles on the tour. Event series doesn't seem to really capture what goes on the tour – a collection of performances, which in the database is a set of rows.
- The notion of a citation – you are interviewed by a magazine, a play is reviewed somewhere – not really an award, but belongs in the mix
- Artistic exhibits – there's also the notion of permanent installation, and touring exhibits, and the distinction between solo and group exhibits as a distinction of merit and significance, much like the level of contribution to authorship as is tracked in Europe
- Translations are some people's primary work, but also related to another work
- Contributions of a photo or illustration to a published work.
- Consulting is another contribution that faculty members would like to have recognized – e.g., a faculty member who does a lot of curatorial work for museums
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