I vote yes. Yan Han, The University of Arizona Libraries
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marco Neumann Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2010 7:11 PM To: crm-sig Subject: Re: [Crm-sig] New Members, PLEASE VOTE I vote Yes Marco Neumann KONA On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 3:14 PM, martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have the pleasure to announce that > DAI and CoDArchLab would like to become members of CRM-SIG. > > PLEASE VOTE by Monday, August 16. > > Best, > > martin > > Arachne is the central object-database > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database> of the German Archaeological > Institute <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Archaeological_Institute> > (DAI). In 2004 the DAI and the Cologne Digital Archaeology Laboratory > (CoDArchLab) at the University of Cologne > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cologne> (FA) joined the > effort to support Arachne as a tool for free internet-based research. > > This is why the CoDArchLab as well as the DAI, as cooperation partners > for the development of Arachne and other archaeological software, do > separately apply to become members of the CIDOC-CRM Special Interest > Group. The DAI will do this in a separate step, based on the fact that > the CIDOC-CRM is the DAIs officially supported > metadata-exchange-standard, as it has been established by a decree of > the conference of directors. The CoDarchLab is applying by this message. > > The CoDArchLab is part of the Archaeological Institute of Cologne > University and is working in closest cooperation with the Cologne chair > for Humanities Computing (Manfred Thaller) as well as with the Computing > Center at the University of Cologne (Ulrich Lang). Its main focuses are > digital representations of archaeological objects and problems as well > as mass-digitalisation of archaeological data, mainly, but not > exclusively, from the photographic and research archives of DAI as well > as from present excavations of DAI; which, all in all, might constitute > the the largest body of documentary material in the archaeological > world. This cooperation is based on a contract between DAI and Cologne > University and is supported by both institutions. Furthermore, the > philosphical faculty of Cologne University has funded an > Archaeo-Informatic-Pool of 30 clients, one Server and a host of > specialized software inside of the rooms of the CoDArchLab to support > the archaeoinformatic work performed by the institutions quoted above. > > Reinhard Foertsch (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhard_Förtsch; > http://www.klassarchaeologie.uni-koeln.de/?q=node/86) is a professor in > Classical Archaeology and the head of the CoDArchLab. He specialized in > digital representations of archaeological concepts and their > consequences on Classical Archaeology. > > --------------------- > > > > -- > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(2810)391625 | > Research Director | 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 > -- Marco Neumann CEO KONA --- Come and join us at the Semantic Web Summit - Examining the Impact: Semantic Technology for Business, in Boston Nov 16-17, 2010 http://www.lotico.com/semsum2010/ _______________________________________________ Crm-sig mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig
