Hello all, My name is Christopher Johnson and I am a master's student in Kulturinformatik at BTU Cottbus. I am also a Werkstudent for the Wikimedia Deutschland Software Engineering Team. I am currently working with the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities on a project called "Semantic Blumenbach". CIDOC has been my focus with Göttingen for several months, and prior to that I studied the IANUS project at the DAI.
I will be starting my master's thesis in the spring and my general thema is "Graphing World Heritage", so my interest in Arches revolves around evaluating tools and methods for implementing the CIDOC CRM for the production of linked open data sets. As of this evening, I have a fully functional version of Arches running on my Kubuntu laptop. :) My view of heritage is that it is created and functionally conceptual. We attribute intangible values to physical objects and deem this as "heritage", but without these intangibles, the objects are just objects. For CRM modeling, this is critical, because in CIDOC there are physical objects and conceptual objects. Documenting both the physical and conceptual objects together is rather important in the creation of heritage... Yet, clearly this is an academic discourse, and perhaps not relevant, because a tool like Arches seems to be designed for the management of physical objects. Ideas and values cannot be put on a map, correct? I would really like to see a way of incorporating more of the intangible aspects of heritage into the project, but for now, Arches is a good start. Kind Regards, Christopher On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 11:29:01 AM UTC+1, Edmund Lee wrote: > > Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the > Arches Discussion Forum recently. > > This online group was initially set up for the project team, and has just > recently been opened up as the public, so some of us haven't met before. > How about we all share a bit of background, just like we would if we were > meeting in the real world? If that sounds good to you, reply to this thread > and share with the group some or all of the following: > > - what is your interest in Arches? > > > - where in the world are you working? > > and, just to make it a bit more fun, > > - what can you see out of the window? Is there any heritage in your > view? > > I look forward to getting to know everyone a bit better! > > > Ed > -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
