- From: Ryan Shaw <ryanshaw@ischool.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:17:54 -0700
- To: Richard Light <richard@light.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>, Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>, David Canos <davidcanos@gmail.com>, public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Richard Light<richard@light.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Another ontology/vocabulary which is centred around events is the CIDOC CRM > (Conceptual Reference Model). [1] It is "a formal ontology intended to > facilitate the integration, mediation and interchange of heterogeneous > cultural heritage information", and comes out of the museums community. > There is an OWL representation [2] which has been developed by a group at > Erlangen-Nuremburg University. It certainly doesn't lack definitions ;-) > > I would be interested to hear what Linked Data folks make of it as a > potential framework for expressing more general event-related assertions, > i.e. going beyond its stated scope. I would also value a more expert > opinion than my own as to whether the current expression of the CRM (either > the OWL or RDF [3] version) is "fit for purpose" as a Linked Data ontology. We discuss the CIDOC CRM extensively in our tech report, which I will post a link to here as soon as it is available. I personally am of the opinion that it is overengineered for Linked Data purposes. But I am willing to be convinced otherwise. In any case, though the CIDOC spec discusses historical events, I have been unable to find any examples of people actually using it to model historical events (a recent post to the CRM-SIG mailing list asking for examples turned up nothing).
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