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------------------Version 5.0------------------

  • The version 5.0 of the reference document.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, December 2008.
    Available: doc file (3 Mb), pdf file (908 kb)

------------------Version 4.3------------------

  • The version 4.3 of the reference document.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, November 2008.
    Available: doc file (3 Mb), pdf file (1,4 Mb)

------------------Version 4.2------------------

  • The version 4.2.5a of the reference document.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, September 2008.
    Available: doc file (2,994 Mb), pdf file (1,370 Mb)

  • The version 4.2.5 of the reference document.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, May 2008.
    Available: doc file (2.717 Mb), pdf file (820 kb)

  • The version 4.2.4 of the reference document.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, March 2008.
    Available: doc file (2.5 Mb), pdf file (688 kb)

  • This is a draft OWL version of CIDOC 4.2.4  proposed by University of Erlangen, which is translated from the official RDFS version. This version does not contain cardinality constraint and is suitable for information integration.
    More versions can be found on: http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/IMMD8/Services/cidoc-crm/index.html.
    Use RDF Label Converter to convert RDF data and RDF schema files between different encoding alternatives of the same CIDOC CRM version, or for migrating RDF data files between different versions of the CIDOC CRM.

  • The version 4.2.2 of the reference document.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, August 2007.
    Available: doc file (1.6 Mb), pdf file (592 kb)

  • The version 4.2.1 of the reference document.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, October  2006.
    Available: doc file (1,56 Mb), pdf file (587 KB).

  • The version 4.2 of the reference document.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, June 2005.
    Available: doc file (1,8 Mb), pdf file (583 KB).

  • This is a new OWL version of CIDOC 4.2 which is translated from the official RDFS version, June 2007
    Available: owl file.
    Use RDF Label Converter to convert RDF data and RDF schema files between different encoding alternatives of the same CIDOC CRM version, or for migrating RDF data files between different versions of the CIDOC CRM.

  • This is a proposal how to encode the version 4.2 of the CIDOC CRM in RDFS. It identifies properties by a unique id as part of the property name: Partial Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model version 4.2 in RDF, June 2005.
    Available: rdfs file (60 Kb).
    This URL: http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/rdfs/cidoc_v4.2.rdfs is the official namespace given by CIDOC for this file.
    Use RDF Label Converter to convert RDF data and RDF schema files between different encoding alternatives of the same CIDOC CRM version, or for migrating RDF data files between different versions of the CIDOC CRM.

------------------Version 4.0------------------

  • The version 4.0 (previously 3.4.10) of the reference document.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, March 2004 (version 4.0).
    Available: doc file (1,04 Mb), pdf file (701 KB).

  • The version 4.0 (previously 3.4.10) of the reference document with automatically created cross-references as html hypertext.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model and Crossreference Manual, zip files (208 kb) April 2004 (version 4.0).

------------------Version 3.4------------------

  • The version 3.4.10 of the reference document with automatically created cross-references as html hypertext.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model and Crossreference Manual, zip files (208 kb) March 2004 (version 3.4.10).

  • The version 3.4.9 of the reference document with automatically created cross-references as html hypertext.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model and Crossreference Manual, zip files (208 kb) November 2003 (version 3.4.9).

  • The version 3.4.9 of the reference document. This version corresponds to the ISO Draft International Standard submission ISO/DIS 21127 from October 2003.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model , November 2003 (version 3.4.9).
    Available: doc file (1,04 Mb), pdf file (701 KB).

  • This is a proposal by Detlev Balzer of how to encode the version 3.4.9 of the CIDOC CRM in OWL. It identifies properties by a unique id as part of the property name: Partial Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model version 3.4.9 in OWL , January, 2006.
    Available: html file (94 Kb).
    This URL: http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/OWL/crm3.4.9/index.html is the official namespace given by CIDOC for this file.
    This document contains release notes for the owl file.

  • This is a proposal how to encode the version 3.4.9 of the CIDOC CRM in RDFS. It identifies properties by a unique id as part of the property name: Partial Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model version 3.4.9 in RDF, Dec 2003.
    Available: rdfs file (60 Kb).
    Use RDF Label Converter to convert RDF data and RDF schema files between different encoding alternatives of the same CIDOC CRM version, or for migrating RDF data files between different versions of the CIDOC CRM.

  • For users of SIS here the full implementation of CIDOC CRM version 3.4.9
    Available: zip file (31 Kb).

------------------Version 3.3------------------

  • This is a proposal how to encode the version 3.3.2 of the CIDOC CRM in XML. It defines all properties as tags and refers to entities summarily with the tag "in_class". It can be used for data transport and for presentation using a suitable XSL style sheet:
    Encoding of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model version 3.3.2 in XM
    L, 3 October 2002. Available: dtd file (19 Kb).

  • This is a proposal how to encode the version 3.3.2 of the CIDOC CRM in RDFS. It uses double (inverse) properties and renders the version 2.1 obsolete. It identifies properties by a unique id as part of the property name:
    Partial Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model version 3.3.2 in RDF , 3 October 2002. Available: rdfs file (58 Kb).

  • The version 3.3.2 of the reference document. This version contains all amendments of modelling constructs until issue 108. It can be regarded as final draft of the CIDOC CRM. The missing property scope notes are expected to be decided in the next meeting.
    Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC object-oriented Conceptual Reference Model , September 2002 (version 3.3.2). Available: rtf file (1,08 Mb), pdf file (536 Kb).

------------------Version 3.2------------------

  • The version 3.2.1 of the reference document. This version has been accepted by ISO as Committee Draft ISO/CD 21127
    Nick Crofts, Ifigenia Dionissiadou, Martin Doerr, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC object-oriented Conceptual Reference Model , July 2001 (version 3.2.1).
    Available: rtf file (1,7 Mb), pdf file (630 KB).
  • This is a proposal how to encode the version 3.2.1 of the CIDOC CRM in XML. It defines all properties as tags and refers to entities summarily with the tag "in_class". It can be used for data transport and for presentation using a suitable XSL style sheet:
    Encoding of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model version 3.2 in XML, February 2002.
    Available: dtd file (57 Kb).

  • This is a proposal how to encode the version 3.2 of the CIDOC CRM in RDFS. It uses double (inverse) properties and renders the version 2.1 obsolete. It identifies properties by a unique id as part of the property name:
    Partial Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model version 3.2 in RDF, Oct 2001.
    Available: rdfs file (57 Kb).
    Use RDF Label Converter to convert RDF data and RDF schema files between different encoding alternatives of the same CIDOC CRM version, or for migrating RDF data files between different versions of the CIDOC CRM.

  • For users of SIS here the full implementation of CIDOC CRM version 3.2:
    Available: zip file (104 Kb).

------------------Version 3.1------------------

  • The version 3.1 of the reference document. This version has been accepted by the CIDOC CRM SIG in July 2001 as working basis for the standardization process:
    Nick Crofts, Ifigenia Dionissiadou, Martin Doerr, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC object-oriented Conceptual Reference Model, June 2001 (version 3.1). Available: rtf file (728 Kb), pdf file (603 Kb).

------------------Version 3.0------------------

  • The version of the reference document including the "Agios Pavlos Extensions", July 2000. Non-approved so-far:
    Nick Crofts, Ifigenia Dionissiadou, Martin Doerr, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC object-oriented Conceptual Reference Model, March 2001 (version 3.0). Available: rtf file (1,325 Kb), pdf file (587 Kb).

------------------ The Agios Paulos Extensions------------------

  • This report is the reference document for the latest proposed extensions to the CRM based on experience from the CRM Correlation Test Project:
    Martin Doerr (editor), The Agios Pavlos Extensions. Add-ons for the Completion of the CIDOC CRM, July 2000. Available: rtf file (52 Kb), pdf file (154 KB).

  • The summary of the CRM meeting in Agios Pavlos, Crete, June 2000, which has proposed the above extensions:
    Nick Crofts (editor), CRM Agios Pavlos meeting:Report , July 2000. Available: rtf file (13 Kb), pdf file (91 Kb).

------------------Version 2.3------------------

  • The version of the reference document including property indices and property codes as appear in the RDFS version. Non-approved so-far:
    Nick Crofts, Ifigenia Dionissiadou, Martin Doerr, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC object-oriented Conceptual Reference Model , September 1999 (version 2.3). Available: rtf file (363 Kb), pdf file (443 Kb).

------------------Version 2.1------------------

  • This is the French version of the CRM reference document version 2.1 submitted to ISO TC46 and accepted in September 2000. It was translated from English to French by Nick Crofts & Patrick Le-Boeuf at May 27, 2001:
    Nick Crofts, Ifigenia Dionissiadou, Martin Doerr, Matthew Stiff (editors), Définition du Modèle Conceptuel de Référence du CIDOC (CRM), September 1999 (version 2.1). Available: word file (244 Kb), pdf file (484 Kb).

  • This is a proposal how to encode the version 2.1 of the CIDOC CRM in RDFS. It uses double (inverse) properties and renders the January version obsolete. It identifies properties by a unique id as part of the property name:
    Partial Definition of the oo CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model in RDF, May 2000. Available: dtd file (57 Kb).

  • This is the first proposal how to encode the version 2.1 of the CIDOC CRM in RDFS. It uses the forward plus the backward name of a property as its full name:
    Partial Definition of the oo CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model in RDF , January 2000. Available: rdf file (57 Kb).

  • Explanations to the January version of CRM in RDFS:
    Latest attempt of an RDF version of the CIDOC CRM, 25 January 2000. Available: html file (6 Kb).

  • The proof-read version of the reference document submitted to ISO TC46 and accepted in September 2000:
    Nick Crofts, Ifigenia Dionissiadou, Martin Doerr, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC object-oriented Conceptual Reference Model, September 1999 (version 2.1). Available: rtf file (358 Kb), pdf file (442 Kb).

  • The working document about the mapping of the CIDOC Information Categories into the CRM, version 2. This version is compatible with "Definition of the CIDOC object-oriented Conceptual Reference Model", September 1999 (version 2.1):
    Nick Crofts, Ifigenia Dionissiadou, Martin Doerr, Pat Reed (editors), CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model - Information groups, ICOM/CIDOC Documentation Standards Group, September 1998. Available:  word file (781 Kb), pdf file (398 Kb).

------------------Version 2.0------------------

  • The version of the CRM model presented on the CIDOC Conference in London:
    Nick Crofts, Ifigenia Dionissiadou, Martin Doerr, Matthew Stiff (editors), Revised Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model, ICOM/CIDOC Documentation Standards Group, September 1999 (version 2.0). Available: rtf file (288 Kb), pdf file (397 Kb).

---------------------Version 1 -----------------------

  • The working document about the mapping of the CIDOC Information Categories into the CRM. A useful reference containing many explanatory details not referred to in the Definition:
    Nick Crofts, Ifigenia Dionissiadou, Martin Doerr, Pat Reed (editors), CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model - Information groups, ICOM/CIDOC Documentation Standards Group, September 1998. Available: rtf file (122 Kb),  word file (198 Kb), pdf file (269 Kb).

  • This document consists of notes on a draft specification for the CIDOC OO reference model. This draft was compiled by an ad hoc group (Nick Crofts, Costis Dallas, Ifigenia Dionissiadou, Martin Doerr) at a meeting in Crete in July 1997 on behalf of the CIDOC documentation standards working group:
    Notes on the data modelling meeting in Crete July 1997 , July 1997. Available: word file (77 Kb), pdf fle (192 Kb).
  • The present document is a relatively informal collection of remarks and comments arising from work on the conversion of the CIDOC relational data model at ICS FORTH in July 1996:
    Notes on the transformation of the CIDOC relational data model , July 1996. Available: rtf file (50 Kb), pdf file (131 Kb).

  • The CIDOC reference document used as scope for the CRM until version 2 (i.e. no more for the Agios Pavlos Extensions):
    Alice Grant, Josephine Nieuwenhuis, Toni Petersen (editors), Guidelines for Museum Objects - CIDOC Information Categories, International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums (CIDOC), 1995. Available: html file (155 Kb).

 
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