This may find your interest. martin
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [cidocawg] CIDOC Archaeological Working Group List-Post: [email protected] Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:53:08 +0100 From: "Cripps P.J." <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] To: <[email protected]> I look forward to the CAA 2006 notes having not been able to make it to Dakota. A couple of bits of information from recent events: The CRM and ontologies in general were discussed at a recent AHDS E-Science seminar in London and also at an AHRC Methods Network Expert Seminar in Sheffield; seems like everyone is now at least aware of such ontologies, if not always what they are, what they can do and how they do it... The difference between an ontology in the computer science sense (i.e. being a formalised description of semantic structure) and an ontology from a philosophical viewpoint (i.e. simply some 'world-view') is perhaps not always fully appreciated, the term ontology having become rather fashionable again. Manfred Thaller gave an excellent paper at Sheffield (see the abstracts online) and I mentioned the CRM from a GIS standpoint, it being the glue that will make lots of GIS things happen (eg advanced web-services for sourcing, delivering, validating and enhancing spatial data). The report for the London meeting will be online soon but again the use of such technologies as the CRM was seen as highly important to the E-Science agenda. AHRC Methods Network seminars: http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/seminars.html AHDS E-Science seminars: http://ahds.ac.uk/e-science/index.htm There was also an interesting post from Ed Lee on the FISH Technical list about how Cadcorp have written a MIDAS XML plug-in for their GIS application, hopefully the first of many; exeGesIS are also working on one. I would have thought the big players (Esri, AutoDesk, etc) would have been interested as they have been getting into archaeology a lot more in recent years (Esri have even gone so far as to publish data models of a sort in 2002 for archaeology: http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.dataModels.filteredGatewa y&dmid=29). After all, Esri wrote an application to handle Ordnance Survey data (MapManager), why not NMR/SMR/HER/other data using the MIDAS schema...? Failing that, could we as a community produce such routines for the major applications...? Would this not be a good case for a funded development project, given the potential impact of having such import/export routines at our fingertips to use on any project...? I would welcome thoughts on this. Original post from Edmund Lee: "Hello folks, I'm grateful to a colleague in English Heritage for bringing the following news item to my attention. CadCorp have developed a plug-in to allow their software to accept MIDAS XML data into their GIS system. http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/?duty=Show&id=14586&trv=1 " All the best, Paul. Paul Cripps Archaeology, School of Humanities University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BF http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/People/default.asp?Staff=pjc196 Archaeological Computing Research Group: http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/acrg/ Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, UK Chapter Meeting 2006: http://www.caauk.org/ >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: 25 June 2006 13:40 >To: [email protected] >Subject: [cidocawg] CIDOC Archaeological Working Group > >Well everyone we have had 90 days without any action! I guess >we are all busy. I am just typing up some notes from >discussions at CAA06 which I will distribute shortly. Anyone >else got some news? >Rgds >SdS > > > > > > >-- >If you want to share pictures, use the calendar, or start a >vote visit http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/cidocawg > >To leave the Group, email: [email protected] > >Report abuse >http://www.smartgroups.com/text/abusereport.cfm?gid%3D3184418&mid%3D15 > > > ====================================================================<<< Orange Broadband click below: http://ads.smartgroups.com/adclick/CID=000000b7c79a99a500000000 ====================================================================>>> -- If you want to share pictures, use the calendar, or start a vote visit http://www.smartgroups.com/groups/cidocawg To leave the Group, email: [email protected] Report abuse http://www.smartgroups.com/text/abusereport.cfm?gid%3D3184418&mid%3D17 -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(2810)391625 | Principle Researcher | Fax:+30(2810)391638 | | Email: [email protected] | | Center 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/isl | --------------------------------------------------------------
