> On 17 May 2015, at 13:37, martin <[email protected]> wrote:

> The CIDOC CRM master in a logical sense is an SIS-TELOS knowledge base, 
> product of
> ICS-FORTH since 1990, which guarantees the formal logical consistency of IsA 
> relations of classes and properties. It provides much better views than 
> Protege.

how does one get access to the data behind this SIS-TELOS system? is it not a 
slight concern that the master is held
in what is effectively a proprietary system?

> 
> I do not see any means to maintain all this in XML only.

I don’t see why it would be a problem? i mean, what aspects of the master 
cannot be represented in XML?
I am not  saying it would be easy or convenient to work on necessarily, but it 
must be possible

> We have tried in the past TMX for the translations, but it turned out to be 
> complex and tools were not tuned to that. Multilingual manual writing tools 
> could do part of the job, but not the logics.

translations  are a pain, I agree. for the TEI, we have managed to create a 
system for maintaining multi-lingual versions of the reference materials, but 
managing the human-readable prose is hard

> ….
> A TEI encoded version could be an intermediate product. Need to undestand 
> what we gain. Could be interesting for interfacing with other apps. Word is 
> very handy to do edit changes during discussions on the screen. Impossible 
> without a WYSIWYG editor.

forgive me, but this looks like a tail wagging a dog :-}

Sebastian Rahtz      
Chief Data Architect
University of Oxford IT Services
+44 1865 283431






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