1.4.2 <VenueDefinition>

A <VenueDefinition> is a definition element containing the same information as may be contained in a <Venue>, but outside the scope of a given <Event>.

Attributes

supplierDefinitionId

compulsory. The id that uniquely identifies this shared definition element to the supplier.

VID

compulsory. The VID that represents the unique ID of the Venue that is being described. See http://www.ives.info for more information on how to resolve VIDs and how to go about finding an existing VID for a Venue or creating a new one if one has not yet been allocated.

creationTime

optional. See Shared timestamp attributes ()

lastUpdateTime

optional. See Shared timestamp attributes ()

Note that he previousVID attribute from <Venue> is not permitted in <VenueDefinition> because this relates to how an <Event> relates to a <Venue> rather than the shared definition in <VenueDefinition>. If you wanted to model how the ``usage'' of a <VenueDefinition> had changed with respect to an <Event> then you should utilise the previousVID inside the appropriate <VenueReference> element.

May Contain

<Title>

, optional. If not defined then the name of the Venue should be derived from the VID record.

<Contacts>

, optional. Contact information for the Venue itself.

Descriptive Elements

()

<PerformanceSpaceDefinition>

. optional and repeatable. You may define one or more shareable details about peformance spaces contained within the <VenueDefinition>. These may be referred to directly by a <PerformanceSpaceReference> which may be utilised instead of a <VenueReference> if you want to give more precise information as to the location of an Event.
Please note that even if you only have a single <PerformanceSpaceDefinition> under a <VenueDefinition> then a <VenueReference> does not include the <PerformanceSpaceDefinition>. You need to explicitly reference it via a <PerformanceSpaceReference> to include this information. This is not the same behaviour as between a <Venue> : <PerformanceSpace> relationship, but it is necessary to reduce ambiguity if additional <PerformanceSpaceDefinition> elements get added to the <VenueDefinition> in the future.

Contained Within

<IvesMessage>

optional and repeatable.