Dear All, I thought this message is of general interest:
========================================================================= Martin You asked for copies of standards that you would like covered by the CRM. For information of the meeting therefore I attach a summarised copy of the MIDAS data standard - the full version can be viewed online at http://www.rchme.gov.uk/midas/sitemap.html. MIDAS is intended to provide a standard for description of monuments, buildings and related heritage information. It is based in part on the CIDOC standards for archaeological sites, so I think it should not be a difficult task to integrate the two. As I have said before, I think the main area of additional work that might be needed for CRM to cover the sites and monuments is perhaps a more detailed consideration of Locations, which may be known with different levels of precision, confidence and accuracy. A related concept that is increasingly important for the UK heritage sector is the idea of 'Place' - ie defining and documenting the character of an 'area' (say for example an historic industrial area within a town, or a rural area with a particular pastoral economy) as opposed to the traditional focus on individual buildings or archaeological monuments. You may be interested to hear that the inaugural meeting of FISH, the Forum on Information Standards in Heritage which now has a UK wide remit will be held on 18th July in London. I will ensure that relationship of FISH to the CIDOC-CRM is considered at that meeting. Best wishes Edmund Lee Data Standards Supervisor English Heritage Data Services Unit National Monuments Record Centre Kemble Drive Swindon SN2 2GZ United Kingdom Direct dial 01793-414791 / +44 (1793) 414791 email [email protected] Find out more about the English Heritage DSU at http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/knowledge/index.asp ============================================================================== -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(81)391625 | Senior Researcher | Fax:+30(81)391609 | Project Leader SIS | Email: [email protected] | | Centre for Cultural Informatics | 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/proj/isst | --------------------------------------------------------------
