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Collection of user stories describing evolving requirements of stakeholders involved in managing and using natural science collections.
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trace an object or subject's history #596

Open sharifX opened 3 years ago

sharifX commented 3 years ago

As a Historian studying History of Sciences, Scientific Illustrations, History of Photography I want to use all available sources of information, images, text (publications, correspondence, notes, etc.) audio, or moving image of an object / subject so that I can fully understand/trace an object or subject's history (how an object came to the institution, provenance, circumstances of collecting event) for this I need scientific name, sex / age, part description, place of collection or georeferenced, locality, date of collection, collector, preparation, object measurements, photos (scientific), historic owners, cause of death, provenance form of acquisition.

ilippert commented 2 years ago

This story would profit from extension based on a slightly different ontology of history. The implicit ontology of history in this user story seems to be that history has ended. But history is being done, it is happening in the present. So, as a Scholar of the (hi)story of the object/subject, I want to trace how the subject/object's (hi)story develops: Thus, I like to know about access meta/data to this object/subject: who is using this object/subject, for what, when, how can the user be contacted, how is this object/subject brought into relation to other objects/subjects (i.e. how do their (hi)stories interweave?

Such a take might actually be compatible with https://know.dissco.eu/handle/item/115 (p.19) call to collect data on "collection usage/data access requests".

sharifX commented 2 years ago

Hi @ilippert, Thanks for the comment to point out the dynamic aspect of history. DiSSCo's idea of using "Digital Specimens" as actionable Digital Object would allow capturing of such ongoing data. If you have a real use case to share I think that would be also useful.

ilippert commented 2 years ago

If you have a real use case to share I think that would be also useful.

Shall I generate this as a new issue, or add it here?

sharifX commented 2 years ago

yes, feel free to create a new issue.