The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC CRM) is an international standard (ISO 21127) developed for the integration, mediation, and interchange of cultural heritage information. It is a formal ontology and a theoretical and practical tool for information integration in the field of cultural heritage. It can help researchers, administrators and the public to explore complex questions with regards to our past across diverse and dispersed datasets. The CIDOC CRM achieves this by providing definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in cultural heritage documentation and of general interest for the querying and exploration of such data. These formal descriptions allow the integration of data from multiple sources in a software and schema agnostic fashion. Also, the wide deployment and use of the CIDOC CRM in recent years have highlighted that cultural information extends to other disciplines as well, such as biology, geology and others. The cultural discourse includes information from all sorts of sciences and product of sciences, such as digital productions, biological samples, specimen of physical objects (materials, fluids etc.). Scientific activities themselves are part of the human culture. The CIDOC CRM has been used in more than 400 projects worldwide up to now.
The school is addressed to everyone involved in or interested in scientific documentation in cultural heritage and digital humanities, including (but not limited to) the fields of history, archaeology, museums, archives, libraries, preservation, and collection management, whether they are researchers and scientists, collection managers, curators, or IT specialists.
The summer school will enable the attendees to: