It’s very sad to hear this news. He was a kind hearted person and contributed important ideas and work to the semantic data community.
Condolences to his family, George On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 at 12:50 AM Matthew Stiff <[email protected]> wrote: > This is awful news. My sincere condolences to his family and friends. He > was a lovely man and I have very fond memories of the conference in > Nuremberg - my first within CIDOC. > > With much sadness, > > Matthew > > Dr Matthew Stiff MSc DPsych CPsychol > Chartered Counselling Psychologist > (m) 07939 151510 > > Dr Matthew Stiff > (m) 07939 151510 > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Crm-sig <[email protected]> on behalf of Tony Gill < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Saturday, November 9, 2019 9:21:54 PM > *To:* Martin Doerr <[email protected]> > *Cc:* crm-sig <[email protected]>; [email protected] < > [email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Crm-sig] Siegfried Krause > > This is very sad news indeed -- RIP, Siegfried! > > My sincere condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues everywhere. > > T. > Sent from my 'phone, please excuse brevity, typos, weird autocorrect > substitutions etc. > > On Nov 9, 2019, at 4:15 PM, Martin Doerr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Dear Colleagues, > > It is with deep sorrow that I have to inform you about the sudden loss of Dr. > Siegfried Krause, IT Referent of the Germanische Nationalmuseum of Nuremberg > and longstanding member of CIDOC and CRM-SIG. He passed away this Friday, > Nov. 8 2019, in his home in the village Lyttos in Crete, suddenly without > previous illness, in the middle of an active life, just two weeks after > participating in the last CRM_SIG meeting in Heraklion. > > We have Siegfried Krause in high esteem as a personal friend, a good > colleague and scholar. He was one of the founding members of the CIDOC CRM > Special Interest Group. We value his distinct contributions and his deep > understanding of the practical IT requirements of research in the > cultural-historical domain. > > His work substantially contributed to the quality and increasing application > the CIDOC CRM enjoys world-wide. He has translated the CIDOC CRM to German, > together with late Karl-Heinz Lampe and me. He has developed, together with > the University of Erlangen, one of the most important reference > implementations of the CIDOC CRM, the WissKi system, probably the first > Knowledge Representation platform that is in practice used for the integrated > management of multiple scholarly research projects from the beginning of the > research process and continues to be used. > > He was the local organizer of the CIDOC Annual Conference 1997, Nuremberg, > Germany and has been chair of the Semantic Research Environments Working > Group of CIDOC, which builds on the experience with the WissKi system. > Our team at ICS-FORTH has been enjoying a continued and intensive scientific > collaboration with Siegfried's team since the year 2000. > > His sudden passing away constitutes a great loss, personally and > professionally, an interruption of promising activities, but before all a > great hardship for his family. > > Siegfried Krause had strong emotional ties to the island of Crete, beginning > as young archaeologist, and thus happened to end his life in an environment > he loved. > > We offer our sincere condolences to his wife and his family, > > Martin Doerr > > > -- > ------------------------------------ > Dr. Martin Doerr > > Honorary Head of the > Center for Cultural Informatics > > Information Systems Laboratory > Institute of Computer Science > Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) > > N.Plastira 100 > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/Plastira+100?entry=gmail&source=g>, > Vassilika Vouton, > GR70013 Heraklion,Crete,Greece > > Vox:+30(2810)391625 > Email: [email protected] > Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl > > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig > > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig >
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