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Alistair.cockburn.us | Stop Confusing Use Cases And User Stories
Similar to class and instance
Similar to class and instance. Use case is a template of an event and user story is an occurrence.
Designing A Url Structure For Bbc Programmes | Smethurst
Episodes and segments
Episodes usually have a running order. In a news programmes these might be individual new stories, in a music programme the tracks played, in a football programme the matches covered. In PIPs the running order is modelled as a set of segments hanging off an episode version…
Digital Hermeneutics: Agora And The Online Understanding Of Cultural Heritage
Object-event and event-event relationships
In SEM each event is defined by four elements, i.e. actor, location, period and type. The core of digital hermeneutics is formed by two components: object-event relationships and event-event relationships. By making explicit relationships between the objects and events, and…
Three kinds of event-event relation
..the basic event-event relations that are defined by three elements, i.e. two different events and a relationship type. We distinguish three basic relation- ship types, corresponding to three of the event properties: A topological or location-based relationship: two events are…
Historical Event-based Access To Museum Collections
Extracting historical events as named entities
One of the biggest challenges is information extraction on historical events from different textual data. We will start by identifying the ‘bigger’ events that have been deemed important enough to receive a proper name (e.g., French Revolution, Second World War). As the…
Lonely Planet Iran (travel Guide)
Iranian women barred from sporting events
Women are barred from attending men’s sporting events even though they are, conversely, free to watch them on TV; this oft-debated issue is dealt with in Jafar Panahi’s film Offside. (1205-1207)
Stonehenge Unveils Its £27m Makeover In Time For The Winter Solstice | Culture | The Observer
Winter solstice access at Stonehenge
"The winter solstice, which I prefer to the summer event, has always been less well attended – but that may not be the case this year, because of the visitor centre and with it falling at the weekend. It is the more significant ceremony because it coincides with our Christmas…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The hostile attitude of conquering nature
The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events—that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies—and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life…
The Digital Humanities Situation | The Transducer
Digital humanities as a gentrifying small town
To many, the digital humanities feels like a small town that has recently been rated as a great place to raise a family. It is now inundated by developers who want to build condos for newcomers who are competing for resources and who may not understand local…
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
Points in time are not observable
Intuitively, many systems regard points in time as a means to recognize events and the temporal end-points of periods, confusing definition with conclusion, and identity with non-unique properties (actually, the absolutely precise point in time when an event happens is not…
Events are not causal to the identity of a period
Some events are closely related to the definition of a period. We mark them as starting event or terminating event. A frequent intuition is that some kind of distinct event should be responsible for the upcoming of a new cultural phase (as required by Biers 1992). The…