Relationships with objects in other databases

From the TC 372 Workshop Compendium

Taking the internet seriously

Film works are not only of interest because of their immediate content, but also for creative works that have been used in, or derived from them.

Taking the idea of events as connectors a bit further, we could envision a resource that allows us to uniquely identify events. Such a resource would resemble what librarians call an authority file. Using a publicly available identifier for the Basel film festival would allow machines to find other resources referring to this event. This could be other films shown at the festival, posters like the one seen in the previous session, or any other materials such as press articles or photographs.