The RLM schema is small and tidy. If you zoom in the web browser you can see the details. Øyvind Eide and I worked on a chapter about ontologies and data modelling in a book on the subject data modelling in DH. In connection with this I needed the CIDOC ER model from 1994. This is not available at the CIDIC web site since the archives are currently not up, but I found an introduction to it in Reed, P.A. 1995 CIDOC Relational Data Model, A Guide. Available at: http://databaseanswers.org/data_models/museums_simple/cidoc_datamodel.pdf
The data model in itself is big and tidy and is organized over the same template as the RLG model but much bigger. The CIDOC-ER model introduced five large basic entities of what can be defined and documented: People, places, things, events, and concepts. It was claimed (by Reed) that “These five entities and the relationships among them can document anything in the entire spectrum of human (or inhuman) experience” (Reed 1995). This is quite a mouthful, but not bigger than what has more recently been claimed by the semantic web community. The notions of events and conceptual objects were older than CIDOC-ER. The event category was introduced by the Danish curator Lene Roll in 1989 as part of the data model for the new museum system at the National Museum in Copenhagen. Regards, Christian-Emil >-----Original Message----- >From: Crm-sig [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of martin >Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 9:46 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Crm-sig] RLG CRM database? > >Dear Tony, > >I'd like to remind that the RLG database and your experience with it was a >significant source of requirements for the CRM. > >Best, > >Martin > >On 8/9/2014 12:02 πμ, Tony Gill wrote: > > > Hi Folks, > > I also forwarded an image of the original data model to the list earlier >today, but it's pending with the moderator since the message exceeded >40kb(!). > > Cheers, > > T. > Sent from my 'phone, please excuse brevity, typos etc. > > On Sep 7, 2014, at 1:42 PM, João Oliveira Lima <[email protected]> >wrote: > > > > Hi Vladimir, > > Using the Archive.org wayback machine >(https://archive.org/web/), you can find the Data Model at > > https://web.archive.org/web/20060610062018/http://www.rlg.org/le >gacy/r-focus/i58largelogicalmodel.gif > > [ ]s > > Joao Lima > > On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Vladimir Alexiev ><[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was very interested to learn from Steve Stead about >the RLG CRM-based database, > an aggregation of museum objects from a thousand >Research Libraries. > So I wanted to learn more about it. I found plenty of >references (2000-2003) here: > http://tonygill.com/aboutme/publications > http://www.cidoc-crm.org/uses_applications.html > > Of which the most useful one is this: > "Touring the Information Landscape: Designing the >Data Model for RLG Cultural Materials" > which I found here: > > http://worldcat.org/arcviewer/1/OCC/2007/07/09/0000068851/viewer >/file66.html#touring > It has a tiny image of the data model, and refers to: > http://www.rlg.org/legacy/r- >focus/i58largelogicalmodel.gif > > However, the http://www.rlg.org/ domain seems to >have gone out (it redirects to oclc.org). > Does anyone know if that RLG database (or a search >portal) is alive somewhere? > > Thanks! Vladimir > > > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig > > > > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig > > > >-- > >-------------------------------------------------------------- > 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) | > | > N.Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, | > GR70013 Heraklion,Crete,Greece | > | > Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl | >--------------------------------------------------------------
