---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Vladimir Ivanov <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: 2008/9/6 Subject: Re: [Crm-sig] ISSUE: CRM compatibility, VERY IMPORTANT To: martin <[email protected]>
Dear Martin, A paragraph is about "without loss of meaning" is very interesting: "In the context of this chapter, the expression "without loss of meaning with respect to the CRM concepts" means the following: The CRM concepts are used to classify items of discourse and their relationships. By virtue of this classification, data can be understood as propositions of a kind declared by the CRM about real world facts, such as "Object x. forms part of: Object y". In case the encoding, i.e., the language of describing a fact, is changed, only the expert knowledgeable about both languages can assess if the two propositions describe the same fact. If that is the case, then there is no loss of meaning with respect to the senses that can be classified by CRM concepts. Communities of practice requiring fewer concepts than the CRM declares may restrict CRM compatibility with respect to a reasonable, explicitly declared subset of the CRM. " Few thoughts about it: The notion of compatibility is based on interpretation of meaning, which in turn is based on comparing extensions (sets of individuals, relationships). And interpretation of meaning is an activity carried out by expert. It is hard to imagine that an expert will asses extensions rather than intensions to make a decision. Should we distinguish notions of intensional/extensional meaning? Should we introduce relationships that preserve meaning (equivalence, subsumtion)? CRM compatibility of data structure depends on declaration (one may restrict CRM compatibility on one hand and reduce data structure on another hand). If there are no incompatible structures, then we could write "any data structure could be declared as CRM compatible", else we could provide at least one example of incompatible structure (with respect to any declaration). Best regards, Vladimir 2008/9/2 martin <[email protected]>: > Dear All, > > Attached my draft trying to flesh out in a text form the decisions made > about CRM comaptibility in the last CRM-SIG meeting in May. This should > become > the instrument to distinguish false compatibility claims. It should be > rich enough to cover all reasonable application cases. If not, we have to > change > it. > > Please read carefully, with respect to: > a) Is this clear enough so that a good practice of validating CRM > compatibility > can be based on this > b) Is it logically consistent > c) Is it good English > d) Is it functional and useful, is it attractive for providers and users, > does it foster what we want to achieve with the CRM? > > > Please comment. This text, your comments or rewritings will be the base for > a > decision on the CIDOC Conference if this text will be proposed to ISO > as amendment to ISO21127. Only proposals submitted to this mailing list > before the meeting will be discussed. > > Best, > > Martin > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 | > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig > >
