> 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
