Thanks

In the M3O we finally used the simple Information Realization Pattern for sake of simplicity. In that respect I agree with you. Patterns should be as simple as possible and for the M3O it was sufficient to use the simple version.

However, the last proposal could also be used, since it fully contains the simple pattern. In the end it’s even more complicated, since in some scenarios it might even be necessary to view information realization in a context. In that case we would also need the Descriptions and Situations Pattern arounf the IR pattern. This is even foreseen in the Ontology of Information Objects. The drawback, however, is that less people will understand the pattern, although it represents (from a multimedia perspective) a rather simple concept.

So, yes, I think as a rule of thumb one should not make patterns more complicated than required. If a simple pattern satisfies your requirements it’s fine.