Case study of a structured description with CIDOC CRM, on the comprehensive exhibition information model.

Abstract

  Considering exhibition in modern society as a huge and complex medium, I attempt to develop useful information models and possible ways of organizing information resources from the perspective of the general public who accept it.

  This paper, I report a result of the trial of a structured description, based on an existing common vocabulary/ontology, for a wide range of the information which is produced, distributed, and received related to the exhibition. For the structured description, I adopted the model which I presented in the previous issue of this journal for the target information items, and applied CIDOC CRM, which domains museum information, as the common vocabulary/ontology. In this case, the various considerations regarding semantic interpretation occurred in realizing structured descriptions, and I attempted to organize those comprehensively in a visual format, and positioned it as an auxiliary reference model.

  With the above as a prerequisite, the conclusion is that it is possible in considerable degree, to describe the various information distributed at an exhibition in a structured manner using CIDOC CRM. In addition, by applying object-oriented extensions suggested by CIDOC CRM itself, it is possible to gain the comprehensiveness and refinement of the description.