Fwd: CIDOC record test set?

Forward with permission from Martin.

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eric miller                              http://www.w3.org/people/em/
semantic web activity lead               http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
w3c world wide web consortium            http://www.w3.org/

Begin forwarded message:

> From: martin <martin@ics.forth.gr>
> Date: Tue Sep 30, 2003  7:01:51  AM US/Eastern
> To: Eric Miller <em@w3.org>
> Cc: MacKenzie Smith <kenzie@MIT.EDU>, "Gill, Tony" <tg@artstor.org>,  
> Maria Theodoridou <maria@ics.forth.gr>
> Subject: Re: CIDOC record test set?
>
> Dear Eric,
>
> I just got the OK from the "ubi-erat-lupa" Project  
> (wwww.ubi-erat-lupa.org)to share the data.
> I shall send you over the next month the respective files as they  
> become available.
> We are about to finish the transformation of 4 sources so far, two  
> archeological
> databases about inscibed stones, a huge list of Roman inscriptions and  
> cross-references partially matching
> with the others, and Roman personal names and name variants related to  
> inscriptions.
>
> I'll contact the other providers in the next days.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Martin
>
>
> Eric Miller wrote:
>
>> Hi Martin,
>> (sorry for the delay in responding)... In short, I'd like it all! :)   
>> But I'm particularly interested in archeological information.  What   
>> would be the necessary steps to get a large collection of this data   
>> available?!
>> --  
>> eric miller                              http://www.w3.org/people/em/
>> semantic web activity lead               http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
>> w3c world wide web consortium            http://www.w3.org/
>> On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 07:45  AM, martin wrote:
>>> Dear MacKenzie, Eric,
>>>
>>> Thank you for your interest in the CRM.
>>>
>>> We have several test sets, some may need an update.
>>>
>>> A) Data from the John Clayton Herbarium from the museum
>>>    of Natural History London.
>>>     Very specific data: about specimen and their determination as
>>>     species. The mapping of the original data into a CIDOC CRM form
>>>     still has some minor misinterpretations.
>>>     It is in XML, in a form that can be converted easily into RDF.
>>>     Needs updating to the latest version of the CIDOC CRM.
>>>     (http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/data_transformations.html)
>>>
>>> B) Data from the National Museum of Denmark about an Eskimo  
>>> collection.
>>>     The CRM form is not "nice", because it is an automatic
>>>     extraction from a large ACCESS database, a proof-of-concept
>>>     that everything, in particular interal ids can be transformed
>>>     into the CRM.
>>>     It is in XML, in a form that can be converted easily into RDF.
>>>     Needs updating to the latest version of the CIDOC CRM.
>>>      (http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/data_transformations.html)
>>>
>>> C)  The best data are under construction: hundreds of thousands of
>>>     complementary records with archeological information:
>>>     Stones, inscriptions, iconography, place of finding etc.
>>>      Not yet published. I expect results every day. As this is a  
>>> large
>>>     information integration project in itself (ubi-erat-lupa) with   
>>> about 6 different
>>>      source schemata, I would be quite interested
>>>     in exchanging methodological aspects.
>>>
>>> Please have a look at the other data. If you would like to use them,
>>> we can do a quick update and transformation to RDF. If you would like
>>> to publish the results with these data I think I should ask for
>>> permission from the provider as a matter of form.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> MacKenzie Smith wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Tony, I should have thought of that...
>>>> Martin -- any advice for us?
>>>> MacKenzie/
>>>> At 12:40 PM 7/24/2003 -0400, Gill, Tony wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi MacKenzie, Hi Eric,
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be great if you could include some CIDOC CRM RDF-encoded   
>>>>> data as
>>>>> part of the SIMILE demonstrator.
>>>>>
>>>>> I believe Martin Doerr (copied on this e-mail) at ICS-FORTH in   
>>>>> Greece may
>>>>> have some suitable sample data and images you could use.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> T.
>>>>> =================================================================== 
>>>>> == ======
>>>>> Tony Gill
>>>>> ARTstor Director of Metadata & Cataloguing, The Andrew W. Mellon   
>>>>> Foundation
>>>>> 140 East 62nd Street, New York, NY, 10021, USA
>>>>> t1 (direct): +1 (646) 274-2265,  t2: +1 (212) 838-8400
>>>>> w: http://www.artstor.org,  f: +1 (212) 223-2778
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>>>> > From: MacKenzie Smith [mailto:kenzie@MIT.EDU]
>>>>> > Sent: Thursday 24 July 2003 9:22 AM
>>>>> > To: TG@mellon.org
>>>>> > Cc: Eric Miller
>>>>> > Subject: CIDOC record test set?
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Hi Tony,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I wonder if you might be able to help me...
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Eric Miller and I are working on a project together to test some
>>>>> > RDF and Semantic Web technologies for DSpace's support of
>>>>> > metadata schemas (called SIMILE http://web.mit.edu/simile/www/).
>>>>> >
>>>>> > As a first year demonstrator we've decided to work with three
>>>>> > image collections using different metadata schemas to show
>>>>> > interoperability -- VRA, IMS, and possibly CIDOC. I have some
>>>>> > collections that use those first two schemas, but nothing with
>>>>> > CIDOC metadata. So do you happen to know if anyone has a
>>>>> > test collection of images with associated CIDOC metadata?
>>>>> > Is there a better 3rd schema to use instead?
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Thanks for an advice you can offer, and I hope this finds you
>>>>> > well,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > MacKenzie/
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> >
>>>>> > MacKenzie Smith
>>>>> > Associate Director for Technology
>>>>> > MIT Libraries
>>>>> > Building 14S-208
>>>>> > 77 Massachusetts Avenue
>>>>> > Cambridge, MA  02139
>>>>> > (617)253-8184
>>>>> > kenzie@mit.edu
>>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> MacKenzie Smith
>>>> Associate Director for Technology
>>>> MIT Libraries
>>>> Building 14S-208
>>>> 77 Massachusetts Avenue
>>>> Cambridge, MA  02139
>>>> (617)253-8184
>>>> kenzie@mit.edu
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
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>>>
>
>
> -- 
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>  Dr. Martin Doerr              |  Vox:+30(2810)391625        |
>  Principle Researcher          |  Fax:+30(2810)391638        |
>  Project Leader SIS            |  Email: martin@ics.forth.gr |
>                                                              |
>                Information Systems Laboratory                |
>                 Institute of Computer Science                |
>    Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)   |
>                                                              |
>  Vassilika Vouton,P.O.Box1385,GR71110 Heraklion,Crete,Greece |
>                                                              |
>          Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl               |
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Received on Tuesday, 30 September 2003 09:09:50 UTC