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==History==
The CIDOC CRM emerged from the Documentation Standards Group<ref>[http://www.willpowerinfo.myby.co.uk/cidoc/wgdoc1.htm CIDOC Documentation Standards Group]</ref> in the International Committee for Documentation of the [[International Council of Museums]] CIDOC. Until 1994 the [[entity-relationship model]] for museum information was created. In 1996 the method was changed to [[Object-Oriented Modeling|object-oriented modeling]], thus 1999 resulting in the first ''"CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM)"''. The process of establishing the CIDOC CRM as international standard began in 2000 through the ([[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]]) and was completed in 2006 with its acceptance as the ISO 21127 standard.
==Aims==
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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...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.
</blockquote><ref>[http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr/ CIDOC CRM Homepage]</ref>
It does this by providing a high-level conceptual reference model of their [[Formal semantics of programming languages|formal semantics]] whereby each unit of information can be assigned to the concepts of the CIDOC CRM. At the same time this process creates important pre-conditions for machine-to-machine [[Interoperable|interoperability]] and [[information integration|integration]] as part of the Semantic Web initiative. , because the CIDOC CRM can be used as a source for the development of tools for scheme transformation and scheme integration as well. The CIDOC CRM supports the formulation of needs for [[information system]]s and can serve as guideline and help for semantic, [[Data modeling|data]], or [[Database model|database]] modeling.
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