SIG:Ontologies

Introduction

In May and June 2004, there was a discussion on the TEI mailing list about prosopographical tags. This lead to a suggestion that detailed information about persons (physical and legal), dates, events, places, objects etc. and their interpretation could be marked up outside the text, and that this could be connected in on-going ontology work being done e.g. in the Museum community, such as the Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOK-CRM). The result of this was the establishment of a Ontologies SIG at the 4th annual members meeting of TEI in October 2004.

The SIG runs a mailing list on this topic. To join, send a message to tei-ontology-sig-request@lists.sourceforge.net with the word SUBSCRIBE in the header or the body of the email.

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).

Open meeting on June 15 2005

The TEI Ontologies SIG held an open meeting at the ACH/ALLC Conference 2005 in Victoria.

The meeting was from 10 AM to noon on Wednsday, June 15. The room will be Clearihue C108.

Because of renovations, the following change of location might be necessary: In the event the Clearihue Building is too noisy due to the renovations expected to be underway at that time it was suggested we had the following room also reserved: Harry Hickman Building 116.

At the meeting, the goals of the SIG werepresented, together with the work done on some of the tasks as they were defined at the Baltimore meeting in 2004, see notes at http://www.tei-c.org/Activities/SIG/Ontologies/ for details.

If anyone in the community have something they would like to present or discuss at future meetings, please contact Øyvind Eide at oyvind.eide@muspro.uio.no.