Issue 52: Where does an instance of a multimedia object appear in the CRM

ID: 
52
Starting Date: 
2001-10-15
Working Group: 
1
Status: 
Done
Closing Date: 
2002-07-03
Background: 

The CRM contains an entity "Image", and "Linguistic Object". A generalization to all kinds of multimedia objects is sought.

Old Proposal: 

An instance of a multimedia object appears in the CRM under Information Object. Suitable distinctions can be made by using Types. No action needed.

Current Proposal: 

Fig 4 in :
Jane Hunter, "Combining the CIDOC CRM and MPEG7 to Describe
Multimedia in Museums",
http://metadata.net/harmony/MW2002_paper.pdf,
Museums & the Web 2002,

is regarded a compatible extension of the CIDOC CRM.

MD 20/6/2002

Outcome: 

Proposal accepted (points 1&2) Copenhagen 3/7/2002. See issue 101.