Notes from the first TEI Ontologies SIG meeting

The meeting was held during the 4th annual members meeting of TEI in
Baltimore in October 2004.

As a motivation for the conveners' interest in the topic, a short
introduction to the Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM) was given,
together with a description of how the Unit for Digital Documentation
use the standard. This was combined with a lively discussion about TEI
and ontologies in general, and on the CIDOC-CRM standard in specific.

In 2004 and 2005, the conveners have promised to do the following
work:

* Set up a mailing list (2004)

* Create a simple web page (2004)

* Locate people interested in participation

* Communicate with ICOM/CIDOC

* Do TEI-CRM work on some of our data

* Report on our work to the SIG list

* Report progress at the next TEI meeting

In addition, we hope others will report on their work to the mailing
list.

It was also agreed that the following tasks should be done by someone,
but the responsibility was not appointed to anyone in specific:

* Identify all elements in TEI with ontological relevance

* Define mappings from these elements to CRM and to other ontological
  systems

* Identify missing elements in both standards

* Find the borders between TEI and ontologies in order to avoid
  duplication

* Investigate the use of METS as a way to connect TEI to CRM

* Feedback into TEI P5 based on the aforementioned tasks

* Suggest more complete solutions on the integration/connection issue


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The SIG is convened by Øyvind Eide, of the Unit for Digital
Documentation at the University of Oslo, and Christian-Emil Ore, of
the Unit for Digital Documentation at the University of Oslo, who is
also the chair of The International Committee for Documentation of the
International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC).


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