RS Ontology

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The standards represented here are among those most heavily used or publicized in the cultural heritage community, though certainly not all standards that might be relevant are included. A small set of the metadata standards plotted on the main visualization also appear as highlights above the graphic. These represent the most commonly known or discussed standards for cultural heritage metadata."

A treasure-trove of information.

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h1. Ontology Engineering

Ontology Engineering is a significant part of the project, although it is not listed as a separate pricing item.
- One of the most important parts of the system are annotations of various objects and parts of objects (eg image areas)
- An object part (eg painting area) can merit to be treated as "almost an object" on its own. Eg I may want to say "these are female hands", relate them to other painters who did similar subjects, identify a different technique or painting style, etc.
- And maybe there is need to annotate other annotations? Eg "X said S on date M, however Y disagreed with S because of T on date N:
- I'm no CRM expert, but is CRM rich enough to express such "Research Findings Ontology"?
- [http://www.openannotation.org] standards are cited, but again I am not sure they are enough. An annotation should be able to link to other semantic objects (collection objects, artists, techniques, etc).
- An integrated ontology is needed.

Is CIDOC CRM sufficient as a Research Findings ontology?
- maybe yes, since there entities such as Attribute_Assignment that record who determined what aspect of which object when
- even if not, it can be extended
- BM has some funds for CRM consultancy by Martin Doerr.
- obvious extension to CRM ontology will be the specification of the property P3F.has_note, types of Inscriptions, etc.
- an important addition to CIDOC-CRM will be the annotation ontology, which will extend its Attribute Assignment part.

- includes entities such as D1.Digital_Object, D2.Digitization_Process, D3.Formal_Derivation, D8.Digital_Device, D9.Data_Object
- still in draft: many descriptions are missing...



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