- From: Simon Reinhardt <simon.reinhardt@koeln.de>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:53:50 +0200
- CC: public-lod <public-lod@w3.org>
Richard Light 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. I'm certainly no expert. :-) But I think CIDOC-CRM in it's current RDF versions is a bit problematic from a Linked Data POV. The OWL representation [2] has the wrong content type (this is certainly something that can be fixed) and it doesn't have a stable namespace (the term URIs are all relative to the current OWL file). As far as I can see, the way the identifiers are built they cannot be abbreviated in Turtle either. And I'm not happy with the definition of inverse properties. I started manually converting the CRM into OWL (using some OWL 2 constructs like versionIRI and property chains as well) and under a stable purl.org namespace [4]. I'm not done with the properties yet but you can retrieve Turtle and RDF/XML versions and get an idea of what it looks like. Regards, Simon > [1] http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/ > [2] > http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/IMMD8/Services/cidoc-crm/index.htm > l > [3] http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/rdfs/cidoc_crm_v5.0.1.rdfs > [4] http://purl.org/NET/cidoc-crm/core
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