Dear Maria,
I think the complexity is from the fact that Language in the CRM is
modelled as a Type, i.e. to be used for classifying things.
How about creating an E7 Activity to describe learning a language and
then use P16 used specific object → E56 Language?
Or create a separate authority list of types of people: "greek speakers,
english speakers, welsh speakers, etc"
Any other thoughts?
All the best,
Thanasis
On 23/08/2019 17:17, Maria Jose de Almeida wrote:
Dear all,
As some of you may know, I’m working in the Portuguese National Archives
an we are building a new data infrastructure using CIDOC-CRM for
archival description.
When describing biographical information it’s common to state that some
person was fluent in some language, or languages, apart from his/her
native one. Using current archival descriptions standards [ISAD(G)
3.2.2; EAD <bioghist>] this is represented within a text, usually a very
long text string with information of distinct natures. So far we have
been able to decompose the different elements and represent them
adequately as instances of CIDOC-CRM classes and link them trough the
suitable properties. But we are struggling with this one...
We cannot link a Person (E21) to a language (E56) and neither use
multiple instantiation, as it has been suggested in other cases
(http://www.cidoc-crm.org/Issue/ID-258-p72-quantification), because
Person (E21) and Linguistic Object (E33) are disjoint.
The only way around I can think of is to consider someone’s speech as a
linguistic object and state that that person participated in the
creation of that linguistic object.
But it seams a rather odd solution as we would have to crate individuals
for someone’s speech in Portuguese, in French, in Russian, etc. and
describe them in a very broader manner. Because when it is stated that a
person is fluent in any of those languages, typically what is meant is
that that person could interact with other speakers of the same
language, mainly trough an oral discourse, or read written documents.
Not exactly the same as creating documents in a foreign language,
situation which is much more straightforward to represent.
Any thoughts that may help us?
Thanks!
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Maria José de Almeida
Técnica Superior
_Direção de Serviços de Inovação e Administração Eletrónica
_Telefone (direto): 210 037 343
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