The ISO standard for CIDOC CRM is behind a pay wall with a patent notice. Can it be used in an open knowledge system? On 2014-12-29 9:49, Dov Winer wrote: Hi Sam, CIDOC/CRM is the ontology of choice for Structured History as it is anchored on modelling events. An excellent project based on it is the ResearchSpace from the British Museum. See: http://www.researchspace.org/ http://www.researchspace.org/home/rsandcrm http://cidoc-crm.org/ Enjoy, Dov _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing listWikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l

Gerard, tell me about it. It's hard to find anyone who has even seen "ISO 8601" so there is not general compatibility between tools that accept "ISO 8601 (date)?(times?)"; the xsd:datetime (defined mainly as a restriction of ISO 8601) is closer to an open standard, but people aren't so sure about extra digits in the date fields, but maybe we will need them to deal with the year 10000 problem. IEEE 744 is a similar scandal since it hasn't been read by most developers, particularly systems developers, so it is unlikely that FP operations in your favorite language are completely conformant. Now IEEE does have the Get802 program which lets you get slightly aged documents for networking standards and ISO does release the occasional standard for free such as ISO 20222 but there is a big difference between those two and the other organizations like the OMG, W3C, IETF, and FIPS that publish standards for free and manage to somehow pay the bills. On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Gerard Meijssen < gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Hoi. > The fact that ISO has its standards behind a paywall is its shame. > However, it does not necessarily imply anything about the use of the > standard. > Thanks, > Gerard > > NB a paywall seriously hampers acceptance of standards > > On 29 December 2014 at 12:20, Jeff Thompson &lt;jeff(a)thefirst.org&gt; wrote: > >> The ISO standard for CIDOC CRM is behind a pay wall with a patent >> notice. Can it be used in an open knowledge system? >> >> >> On 2014-12-29 9:49, Dov Winer wrote: >> >> Hi Sam, >> >> CIDOC/CRM is the ontology of choice for Structured History >> as it is anchored on modelling events. >> >> An excellent project based on it is the ResearchSpace from >> the British Museum. >> See: >> http://www.researchspace.org/ >> http://www.researchspace.org/home/rsandcrm >> http://cidoc-crm.org/ >> >> Enjoy, >> Dov >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing listWikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > > -- Paul Houle Expert on Freebase, DBpedia, Hadoop and RDF (607) 539 6254 paul.houle on Skype ontology2(a)gmail.com http://legalentityidentifier.info/lei/lookup _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l