Capture
In the media world nowadays also the word capturing is used for the process of documentation. To record or make a lasting representation of (sound or images); as, to capture an event on videotape.
Documentation
Many definitions of documentation have been suggested. For this report the following definition is appropriate. The records which document the creation, history, acquisition by the museum and subsequent history of all objects in a museum collection. Such records include provenance and provenience documents, acquisition documents, conservation reports, cataloguing records, images, and research papers, both created by the holding institution and by previous owners or independent researchers, etc. Also used for the process of gathering this information.
Information
A definition of information is that it should capture the essential nature of the information phenomena in a precise description. While making explicit the similarities between information phenomena and other related concepts such as meaning, certainty, or knowledge, at the same time it should bring forward the differences between these concepts.
Metadata schema
The simplest definition of metadata is that it is data about data. A schema in general is a specific, well-documented, and consistent plan. The related word, scheme means a loosely described plan. Schema can mean any of several specific things. In terms of documentation a metadata schema means a model (or list) of metadata.
Record
To record is to preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enrol; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events. In short: to set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form.
Registration is the accurate positioning of, or the degree of accuracy in the positioning of, an entity relative to (a) another entity, or (b) an independent frame of reference.
Representation
It is generally agreed that people know and understand the world and reality through the act of naming it; thus, through language and representations (Oxford English Dictionary, cited in Vukcevich 2002). The term representation embodies a range of meanings and interpretations. In the context of literary theory the term is commonly defined in three ways: to look like or to resemble something, to stand in for something or someone, to present a second time-to re-present (O’Shaughnessy & Stadler 2002).
Representation began with early literary theory in the ideas of Plato and Aristotle and has evolved into a significant component of language and communication studies in the contemporary world.
Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork.
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