Fwd: Re: Collaboration between CIDOC and TEI

[John Unsworth]

Part 2 of my two-part message.

J.

>Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 11:35:11 +0000
>To: John Unsworth <jmu2m at virginia.edu>
>From: Richard Light <richard at light.demon.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: Collaboration between CIDOC and TEI
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>In message <5.1.0.14.2.20020209153036.01cda080 at pop3.norton.antivirus>, 
>John Unsworth <jmu2m at virginia.edu> writes
>
>>We can certainly, in any case, think about including CIDOC 
>>representatives when appropriate TEI workgroups are formed, since one 
>>doesn't need to be a member, or from a member institution, to participate 
>>in TEI workgroups.
>
>That's certainly the sort of thing we had in mind: a practical alliance 
>which has the aim of getting useful work done.  CIDOC has a Documentation 
>Standards Working Group, which could provide this sort of representation 
>to TEI workgroups.
>
>>Other ideas?
>
>One area that Documentation Standards wants to pursue is the rescue and 
>effective use of less structured information resources: things like 
>exhibition catalogues, wall texts, reports, ...  If we adopt TEI as a 
>basis for such work, it already gives us a generic framework which would 
>be valuable.
>
>At a practical level, we would be interested in techniques for converting 
>standard word processor formats (RTF!) to TEI, e.g. a custom application 
>of software like LogicTran.  Presumably this is an interest that would be 
>shared by many users of TEI?
>
>However, this work would be even more valuable if we could encode 
>museum-specific concepts within such resources.  (This has analogies with 
>the MASTER project.)  Accordingly, we could use the high-level CIDOC 
>Conceptual Reference Model ("CRM") to discover the extent to which 
>existing TEI covers museum requirements, and develop an extension to TEI 
>which deals with the remainder of our needs.
>
>How does this sound?
>
>Richard.
>
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