Invitation and preliminary
agenda for the upcoming 10th meeting of the CIDOC
Special Interest Group (SIG) and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9 in Nuremberg, Germany.
Meeting Date:
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7 to 10 December 2004 |
Meeting Place:
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Nuremberg,
Germany |
Meeting Site:
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Nuremberg
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Organized By:
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German National Museum (GNM),
Kornmarkt 1
90402 Nurnberg, Germany |
Interested participants please
contact Dr.
Siegfried Krause, IT- Department of GNM,
Tel.: ++49(+911)1331-162
Fax: ++49(+911)1331-193
Fees: 0.00€
Participants: facilities
are restricted to 50 Persons
Registration: Please register by email
until 25th of November 2004.
Language: Englisch
Main Topic: Do Ontologies
have an Influence on Scholarly Thinking in Cultural
Sciences
Sub Topic: Information
Integration and Information Mapping |
Contributions: |
Presentations could be proposed until
20th of November.
30 minutes time for presentations.
Presentations will be published on the CIDOC-CRM
Website. |
Introduction
Most attempts to explain
the CIDOC-CRM start with the statement: 'The CIDOC -
CRM is an 'ontology'. Marking the CIDOC-CRM as an 'ontology'
emphasizes the different nature between an object oriented
ontology like the CIDOC-CRM and other information modeling
techniques like ER-modeling. But what are expressions
of this different nature?
One constantly cited argument
for the use of the CIDOC-CRM states that the CIDOC-CRM
simplifies the understanding between information technology
experts and their counterparts within the different
cultural domains by providing a "common language".
If this is true then the CIDOC-CRM like other ontologies
could be seen not only as a "common language"
tool. Ontologies could play the role of polydisciplinary
scholarly mediators between and within disciplines by
connecting currently separated concepts of methodological
structures of 'knowledge'. Clear indications in this
direction were given e.g. in the 'typological discussion'
in the Monterey SIG meeting 2002 between the archaeological
and biological classification processes, which were
identified as being partly the same 'stuff'. Could ontologies
really play the role of scientific glue?
Even though the CIDOC-CRM is currently seen as a tool
for documentation and information specialists, it is
not difficult to foresee that ontologies as knowledge
representation tools will have a strong impact on methodological
questions and research behavior for cultural disciplines
like archaeology, history, art history etc.
Does this establish the need
for new disciplines like Cultural or Museum Informatics?
Or do the old traditional cultural disciplines have
to integrate new concepts, new thinking in their methodological
repertoire?
The CRM Workshop in Nuremberg
held from the 7th December - 10th of December will offer
a place for discussing questions and ideas in this direction.
Contributions are welcome in form of reports from projects
or practical experiences and/or in discussing theoretical
research issues from various areas like philosophy,
documentation, cultural and natural history and information
sciences.
This workshop presents an open
platform for a multidisciplinary exchange of new or
unexpected ideas from and for people with various interests
in the stimulating atmosphere of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
in Nuremberg.
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