Dear all, very sad. Condolences to his family. I would also hope some official condolences would be possible.
All the best, Øyvind > Am 09.11.2019 um 22:11 schrieb Martin Doerr <mar...@ics.forth.gr>: > > Dear Colleagues, > > It is with deep sorrow that I have to inform you about the sudden loss of Dr. > Siegfried Krause, IT Referent of the Germanische Nationalmuseum of Nuremberg > and longstanding member of CIDOC and CRM-SIG. He passed away this Friday, > Nov. 8 2019, in his home in the village Lyttos in Crete, suddenly without > previous illness, in the middle of an active life, just two weeks after > participating in the last CRM_SIG meeting in Heraklion. > > We have Siegfried Krause in high esteem as a personal friend, a good > colleague and scholar. He was one of the founding members of the CIDOC CRM > Special Interest Group. We value his distinct contributions and his deep > understanding of the practical IT requirements of research in the > cultural-historical domain. > > His work substantially contributed to the quality and increasing application > the CIDOC CRM enjoys world-wide. He has translated the CIDOC CRM to German, > together with late Karl-Heinz Lampe and me. He has developed, together with > the University of Erlangen, one of the most important reference > implementations of the CIDOC CRM, the WissKi system, probably the first > Knowledge Representation platform that is in practice used for the integrated > management of multiple scholarly research projects from the beginning of the > research process and continues to be used. > > He was the local organizer of the CIDOC Annual Conference 1997, Nuremberg, > Germany and has been chair of the Semantic Research Environments Working > Group of CIDOC, which builds on the experience with the WissKi system. > Our team at ICS-FORTH has been enjoying a continued and intensive scientific > collaboration with Siegfried's team since the year 2000. > > His sudden passing away constitutes a great loss, personally and > professionally, an interruption of promising activities, but before all a > great hardship for his family. > > Siegfried Krause had strong emotional ties to the island of Crete, beginning > as young archaeologist, and thus happened to end his life in an environment > he loved. > > We offer our sincere condolences to his wife and his family, > > Martin Doerr > > -- > ------------------------------------ > Dr. Martin Doerr > > Honorary Head of the > > Center for Cultural Informatics > > Information Systems Laboratory > Institute of Computer Science > Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) > > N.Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, > GR70013 Heraklion,Crete,Greece > > Vox:+30(2810)391625 > Email: mar...@ics.forth.gr <mailto:mar...@ics.forth.gr> > Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl <http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl> > _______________________________________________ > Crm-sig mailing list > Crm-sig@ics.forth.gr > http://lists.ics.forth.gr/mailman/listinfo/crm-sig
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