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Bridging computer scientists and cultural professionals
The problems computer scientists and system implementers have to comprehend the logic of cultural concepts seems to be equally notorious as the inability of the cultural professionals to communicate those to computer scientists. The CIDOC CRM working group is therefore interdisciplinary, aiming at closing that gap.
- clarity
- extensibility
- coherence
- context-free interpretation
- alternative views
- appropriate granularity
- minimal ontological commitment