Dear Athina,
Thank you for taking of your time and for making explicit the reasons of
your modelling choices and methodology.
As University trained historians, we know that the model of the
information produced by a project generally depends on the research
agenda and the available sources.
Dear Francesco,
First of all, your comments are all welcome,
I think there has been a long discussion on observations and observable
entities in context of CIDOC CRM, so I will not focus in that - I am
not sure if this discussion is about which methodology is most
appropriate: bottom up or to
Dear Francesco,
May I object. I maintain that ownership is not observable. All examples
you provided are about memories or documents of acquisition, or about
those who claim to know those (who know/have known those) who know. The
events of acquisition, in whatever form, are the only one that a
Please let me further add, that custody in the sense of the CRM is
observable. Any legal transition from custody to ownership will again be
based on observable proof of custody.
Please also respect that the Sealit model has passed practice test with
a huge amount of data under the scrutiny of
Dear all,
Social symbolic events such as acquisitions (not done by force) are also
strictly not observable since you can only know that they occur if you
share the same social symbolic set and 'conclude' or 'infer' that something
has taken place. There is no atomic level at which we see these thin
Hi George,
May be you live in a different world, or make things artificially
complex for the sake of providing absolute answers, which do not exist.
The CRM method requires research questions.
My implicit research question is simple: How do I prove that I am
married? Please don't tell me by
Dear Martin,
> May be you live in a different world, or make things artificially complex
> for the sake of providing absolute answers, which do not exist.
>
Interesting claim.
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> The CRM method requires research questions.
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> My implicit research question is simple: How do I prove that I a
