FAIRsharing record for: CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model

This FAIRsharing record describes: The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) provides definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation. The overall scope of the CIDOC CRM can be summarised in simple terms as the curated, factual knowledge
about the past at a human scale. The CIDOC CRM is intended to promote a shared understanding of cultural heritage information by providing a common and extensible semantic framework that any cultural heritage information can be mapped to. It is intended to be a common language for domain experts and implementers to formulate requirements for information systems and to serve as a guide for good practice of conceptual modelling. In this way, it can provide the "semantic glue" needed to mediate between different sources of cultural heritage information, such as that published by museums, libraries and archives. The ISO 21127:2014 specification (Information and documentation — A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information) was created from the CIDOC CRM, although the CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group continues to maintain this original document as well.