----- Original Message (M. Doerr) -----
> Appears we are first on the world to take formal ontologies seriously, > otherwise, all this should exist on the market. The complexity of creating > user documents seems not to be common knowledge. I would say rather that CIDOC-CRM is the first formal ontology to be taken seriously by ordinary mortals outside of bio-medical. It's exciting to hear CIDOC-CRM referred to as a formal ontology, and that its canonical representation is in a format for which there is s/w to check its consistency. My work with it has been with RDFS versions and the handy Word doc. RDFS is today's lingua franca, but re-making an elaborate s/w system and related processes (yes, previously unaware of the extent) is non-trivial as they say. ICOM (w/Mellon,Getty?) should fund that and ensure it lives and evolves in perpetuity -- or whatever passes for perpetuity going forward :^) Karl ------------------ Karl Grossner, PhD Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research (CIDR) Stanford University Libraries Stanford,CA US www.kgeographer.org
