SRDM 1.0
Project Documentation
SRDM 1.0
Models
Group
The group reference data model provides a list of standard descriptors (fields) that are typically present in the description of a group or institution in cultural heritage data systems. The intention of this reference model is to provide a consolidated, high-level formal structure comprising the most commonly reused descriptors for a group and, further, to provide for these a set of semantic mapping to the CIDOC CRM. Moreover, each field is marked with respect to its potential functionality with regards to instance matching between overlapping datasets.
Builtwork
The built work reference data model provides a list of standard fields that are generally present in the general description of a built work in a national built heritage data register. Built work is taken here in the sense of a - typically - immovable building, or significant individual part thereof, made for some human use-function such as habitation. The fuller documentation of a built work would establish the relation of the physical work to the series of intellectual and social processes related to the production of such works, such as architectural plans, meetings, construction episodes, detailed use and modification history, specific topological relations and so on. This reference model does not intend to cover such specificities but to remain at a more general level, providing a consolidated, high-level reference data model of most commonly used descriptors for a built work and to provide for these, in turn, a set of standard semantic mappings to the CIDOC CRM. This level of modelling is seen as a necessary basic reference point on which to build more complex documentation.
Bibliographic Entity
The bibliographic item reference data model provides a list of standard fields that are often found present in the general description of a bibliographic item. The scope of this reference model is the bibliographic item as information object and pointer to real world instances of the publication; this model aims to provide a streamlined list of common descriptors for a bibliographic item and not a complete representation of all aspects of a real bibliographic record. Rather, we are interested here in representing the types of information that are typically gathered by scholars relative to a publication in their creation of bibliographies for use in scholarship and used as the basis for citations. This reference model aims to remain at a general level description, providing a consolidated, high level reference data model of most commonly reused descriptors for a bibliographic item as such and to provide for these in turn a set of standard semantic mappings to the CIDOC CRM. Moreover, each field is marked with regards to its potential functionality with regards to instance matching between overlapping datasets.
Event
The event reference data model provides a list of standard fields that are typically present in the general description of an event, taken in the sense of planned public or social occasions, organized towards some purpose. Examples of events would be workshops, meetings, conferences, congresses and so on. The aim of this reference model is to cover basic descriptors that are typically employed in the documentation of an event. This reference model aims to remain at a general level description, providing a consolidated, high-level reference data model of most commonly reused descriptors for an event as such and to provide for these, in turn, a set of standard semantic mappings to the CIDOC CRM. Moreover, each field is marked with regards to its potential functionality with regards to instance matching between overlapping datasets. This level of modelling is seen as a necessary basic reference point on which to build more complex documentation.
Place
The place reference data model provides a list of standard fields that are often found present in the general description of a place. Place here is interpreted as a geometric extent used for locating entities relative to a reference space. The scope of entities that this reference model aims to cover are places as typically documented in gazetteers. Examples of places would be Edmonton (the inhabited city), Alberta (the administrative district), Canada (the country). The aim of this reference model is to cover basic descriptors that are typically employed in the documentation of a place, usually by a gazetteer. This reference model aims to remain at a general level description, providing a consolidated, high-level reference data model of most commonly reused descriptors for a place as such and to provide for these, in turn, a set of standard semantic mappings to the CIDOC CRM. Moreover, each field is marked with regards to its potential functionality with regards to instance matching between overlapping datasets. This level of modelling is seen as a necessary basic reference point on which to build more complex documentation.
Artwork
The artwork reference data model provides a list of standard fields that are typically present in the general description of an artwork in a cultural heritage data system. The artwork is taken here in the sense of a movable, physical work of some sort such as would be typically inventoried by a museum. Specific documentation of elements of an artwork depends highly upon the kind of artwork it is. This reference model does not intend to cover such specificities but to remain at a general level description, providing a consolidated, high-level reference data model of most commonly reused descriptors for an artwork and to provide for these, in turn, a set of standard semantic mappings to the CIDOC CRM. Moreover, each field is marked with regards to its potential functionality with regards to instance matching between overlapping datasets.
Digital Object
The digital object reference data model provides a list of standard fields that are typically present in the general description of a digital object in a cultural heritage data system. A digital object is meant in the sense of a digitally encoded information object represented as bit sequences that have been encoded with a particular format and can be digitally decoded and represented to an end user of a digital information system. Digital objects are often stored as reference or documentation objects relative to cultural heritage items such as textual descriptions stored as PDFs, documentary images, 3D representations and so on. Digital Objects can also form cultural heritage objects in their own right, though this model does not aim to represent this potential aspect of the digital object. Because of the choice to model, the digital object in its role as a secondary documentary resource, the reference data model has been kept as light as possible. This reference model intends to remain at a general level description, providing a consolidated, high-level reference data model of most commonly reused descriptors for a digital object and to provide for these, in turn, a set of standard semantic mappings to the CIDOC CRM. Moreover, each field is marked with regards to its potential functionality with regards to instance matching between overlapping datasets.
Archival Unit
The archival unit model is meant to provide a semantic data representation of fields typically used in the documentation of archival records. The generation of archival records typically entails the documentation of a physical and intellectual organization of a collection of holdings. The archival unit model provides a semantic construct for representing these levels in the CIDOC CRM. An instance of Archival Unit is meant to be equivalent to a categorical level of documentation in archival data structures such as fond, series, sub-series etc. It is meant to be used to document collections of items organized physical and intellectualy in a hierarchy from Fond downward. It is agnostic to the number of levels or particular means of determining the distribution of levels. Ths archival unit is not meant to be used to document individual archival items documented in their own right. To document individual archival items in their own right, please use the physical information carrier model.
Physical Information Carrier
The physical information carrier model is meant to support the semantic representation of physical objects of documentary interest which are in the care of memory institutions. Such objects, documented on the item level, are typically the physical supports of important documentary evidence in visual, textual or other form, and provide a historical trace or connection to past events as being the unique, individual physical documents created in the life of an individual or institution. Examples of a physical information carrier would include a physical plan, letter or photographic print. The physical information carrier model provides typical fields used for cataloguing information regarding these objects in themselves. The physical information carrier can then be linked to further semantic information records such as the archive unit model for documenting the structural records of an archival recording process or the image model for documenting the intellectual content of a visual image represented on a photographic print.
Person
The person reference data model provides a list of standard descriptors (fields) that are typically present in the description of a person in cultural heritage data systems. The intention of this reference model is to provide a consolidated, high-level formal structure comprising the most commonly reused descriptors for a person entity and, further, to provide for these a set of semantic mapping to the CIDOC CRM. Moreover, each field is marked with respect to its potential functionality with regards to instance matching between overlapping datasets.
Image
The image reference data model provides a list of standard fields that are often found present in the general description of a visual item. The scope of this reference model is the visual item as information object and pointer to real world instances of the picture; this model aims to provide a streamlined list of common descriptors for a visual item and not a complete representation of all aspects of a real image. Rather, we are interested here in representing the types of information that are typically gathered by scholars relative to an image that can be the object of scholarship. This reference model aims to remain at a general level description, providing a consolidated, high level reference data model of most commonly reused descriptors for a visual item as such and to provide for these in turn a set of standard semantic mappings to the CIDOC CRM. Moreover, each field is marked with regards to its potential functionality with regards to instance matching between overlapping datasets.