- From: Eric Miller <em@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:09:49 -0400
- To: www-rdf-dspace@w3.org
Forward with permission from Martin. -- 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(2810)391625 | >>> Principle Researcher | Fax:+30(2810)391609 | >>> 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 | >>> -------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> > > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > 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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