Arches

Arches is an open source immovable cultural heritage inventory platform that was built from the ground up using the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model as the framework for its overall data structure. Arches is designed to take advantage of the CIDOC CRM's approach to create meaningful data relationships between heritage resources and groups, activities, actors, events, and information media.

ResearchSpace

The ResearchSpace project is using the CIDOC-Conceptual Reference Model to bring together data from different cultural heritage organisations.

LIDO Lightweight Information Describing Objects

LIDO, specified as XML Schema, is the result of a joint effort of the CDWA Lite, museumdat, SPECTRUM and CIDOC CRM. Under suitable choice of terminology, LIDO maps to a CIDOC CRM compatible form.

The Arachne project

Arachne is the central Object database of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the Archaeological Institute of the University of Cologne, administrated by Reinhard Foertsch

CLAROS (Classical Art Research Online Services)

CLAROS (Classical Art Research Online Services) provides access to information about ancient Greek and Roman art (sculpture, painted pottery, engraved gems and cameos, etc.) held in museums worldwide.  It uses CIDOC CRM and RDF as the basis for combining more than 2,000,000 records and images held in five databases that have been created by leading European research centres over thirty years. From 2010 CLAROS will welcome new institutional partners with major datasets to extend the scope of information covered, and bring to www.clarosnet.org new facilities for accessing the data, such as the CLAROS Explorer faceted browser, and image-based information retrieval.

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has recently implemented a new version of their Collections' Online site and they used the CIDOC CRM as a framework to define the relationships between objects, people, places, categories and narrative topics.

STAR Project (Semantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources)

The STAR Project (Semantic Technologies for Archaeological Resources) uses the CRM as an umbrella framework for cross searching different archaeological datasets and the grey literature.

They make use of the English Heritage extension to the CRM (CRMEH) for modelling archaeological processes. The project has developed various web services for accessing the CRM and related archaeological thesauri, along with a demonstrator for cross searching.

Germanische Nationalmuseum Nuremberg

The following DTDs have been designed for use at the Germanische Nationalmuseum Nuremberg in collaboration with ICS-FORTH on a CRM base. They reflect three stages of documentation:

• The basic information connecting the identification of the acquisition and the inventarization process (DTD-English version)   (DTD-German version)
• The administration of the objects (DTD-English version)   (DTD-German version)
• The scholarly and scientific description of the object (DTD-English version)   (DTD-German version)
  
  [See the associated Style Sheets: (CSS-English version) (CSS-German version)]

The latter will be varied according to the documentation needs of the different departments/ disciplines in the museum. All three conform with the CIDOC Information Categories, and can be mapped directly to the CRM.

They are an example of good practice of the use of the CRM. DTDs as data entry formats must be closer to the individual user's conceptualization than the overarching ontology. They must further express consistency constraints to assist data validation. They need not, in all parts, fulfill the finest level of detail avalable in the CRM, but can be on a coarser or finer level. Finally they must support a reasonable representation during data entry.

Here, e.g., for the object history the preference was given to more free text representation. The DTD merely maintains the integrity of dates, places and participants in events, but does not go into specific roles. A grouping of the information into logical documentation units has been done in order to suggest to the user which information to provide. This grouping has no semantic role wrt the object, therefore it has no equivalent in the CRM. These are nice examples that demonstrate, why the CRM is NOT and should not be a documentation format.

The DTDs are available in German and English. The associated Style Sheets (CSS-English version, CSS-German version) contain :before statements, which are not supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer. They can be seen with the XMetal Editor. Alternatively, an XSL file can be used to put a text before an element.

The SamSök Project uses the CIDOC CRM for data structuring

The Bletchley Park Text application uses the CIDOC CRM as its backbone ontology.

The LOGOMAR project uses the CIDOC CRM as a basis for data structuring.

RLG

The design of the database employed by RLG in its Cultural Materials Initiative is based on the CIDOC CRM

The Data Services Unit of English Heritage

The Data Services Unit of English Heritage proposes to use the CRM to map key heritage datasets, develop new schema and facilitate interoperability. Among projects benefiting from this work are the development of an XML schema for MIDAS (http://www.fish-forum.info) and the Heritage Data Directory (HEDD).

The European IST Project SCULPTEUR (IST-2001-35372)

The vision of SCULPTEUR is to develop both the technology and the expertise to help create, manipulate, manage and present these cultural archives, and make available cultural heritage to European people and the world.

It employs the CIDOC CRM to develop a sophisticated semantic layer for distributed multimedia information management and a knowledge structure linking low and high-level multimedia representations.

MUSinfo

Musinfo est le projet d'informatisation des quatre institutions scientifiques de la Ville de Genève: les Conservatoires et Jardin botaniques (CJB), les Musées d'art et d'histoire (MAH), le Musée d'ethnographie (ETH) et le Muséum d'histoire naturelle (MHN). Les collections de ces quatre institutions remontent au 16e siècle et représentent une partie fondamentale du patrimoine culturel et scientifique de la Ville de Genève. Se sont rajoutés ensuite la Bibliothèque publique et universitaire (BPU) pour ses collections iconographiques, puis le Fonds municipal d'art contemporain (FMAC). En 2004, l'ensemble des collections patrimoniales de la Ville est donc représenté dans Musinfo.

Centre for Archaeology CfA

Finnish National Callery

The ArchTerra Project

The ArchTerra Progect used the CIDOC CRM as a standard for implementing a database for museum information.

ec(h)o

ec(h)o is an "augmented reality interface" utilizing spatialized soundscapes and a semantic web approach to knowledge. It uses the CIDOC CRM model to describe museum artefacts.

The European IST Project I-Mass (IST-1999-20878)

The basis for knowledge representation I-Mass is the ontology or ontological framework that is used to shape the knowledge landscape. Such an ontology models the domain of discourse and, as such, determines in a Wittgensteinian fashion what may [not] be spoken about.
This implies that the ontology must in principle be able to cover the whole cultural domain, and not be restricted to either the so-called "high-culture" of the elite or to the western view on culture. I-Mass is based on the CIDOC-Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM) for several 'practical' requirements, such as allowing for machine interpretation and minimising semantic completeness.

AFNOR

It uses the CIDOC CRM to define the elements of authority data.

Digital Silk Roads Project

The Digital Silk Roads projects refers to using the CIDOC CRM.

MIDAS XML

The design has also been informed by standards, specifically the ontological thinking incorporated in the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (ISO 21127:2006).

BAM

The project is going to use the CIDOC CRM for heterogeneous data exchange