Open AccessEvents as a structuring device in biographical mark‐up and metadata
Author(s) -
Buckland Michael,
Ramos Michele Renee
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
bulletin of the american society for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1550-8366
pISSN - 0095-4403
DOI - 10.1002/bult.2010.1720360209
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , metadata , context (archaeology) , computer science , structuring , event (particle physics) , perspective (graphical) , world wide web , data science , information retrieval , artificial intelligence , history , finance , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , economics , programming language
Michael Buckland is co-director of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, University of California, Berkeley. He can be reached by email at bucklandischool.berkeley.edu. Michele Ramos is a research assistant at the Initiative. She can be reached by email at michelerenee@berkeley.edu. T here is little structure or best practice in the concise biographical texts found in biographical dictionaries andWho’s Who volumes. This paper is a progress report on an investigation of using events as a structuring device for mark-up and metadata structures in biographical texts as part of a project entitled Bringing Lives to Light: Biography in Context [1]. The idea is that anyone’s life can be usefully decomposed into events at any desired level of granularity and that each event could be described as a 4-tuple of the four facets what, where, when and who.