Dear Martin and fellow CRM colleagues, I am very pleased to see the work that Martin has put into mapping the OpenGIS standard to CRM. It is the concept of "position in space" that most clearly distinguishes historic environment data from, for example, museum or archive based cultural data, and it is therefore essential that the CRM has a way to model this information to meet the needs of the historic environment sector.
Martin - as you know Matthew Stiff from Engliah Heritage will be attending the Paris meeting next week instead of myself, but I am sure he will be very interested to see the results of the mapping work that you have undertaken. You may be interested to hear that the U.K. Forum on Information Standards in Heritage (FISH) is at present discussing the application of GIS standards to existing text-based database standards on its discussion list. You can review the messages (or join the list - you would all be very welcome) via the web site http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/fish.html Best wishes Edmund Lee Data Standards Supervisor Data Services Unit Standards Team English Heritage National Monuments Record Centre Kemble Drive Swindon SN2 2GZ United Kingdom Tel: +44 (01793) 414791 Fax: +44 (01793) 414770 email: [email protected]
