National Gallery - CIDOC CRM Modelling Examples

This presentation does not cover all the possible relationships relating to conservation documentation but concentrates on examples of the main properties and values required to document and organise technical and analytical examinations of cultural heritage objects. Therefore, the semantic description of objects, their creators and common events will be minimal and will not explore the additional concepts more specifically related to detailed conservation treatments, art history, provenance or exhibitions. However, in addition to the demonstrating the semantic relationships between data types the examples included in this document have been extended to demonstrate how real literal values, numbers, dates, names and text can be connected to the semantic model. The data included in this presentation has been taken from the online Raphael Research Resource.

In the following examples each of the sets of relationships are presented in the form of a flow diagram, which indicates and explains the entities being linked together and the properties connecting them. At this time each flow diagram can be rendered in two different ways: one using an interactive 3D display (D3 Process Map) and one using a simpler 2D presentation (Mermaid).