A base for understanding
- Core metadata
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- intended for integration
- created, edited, viewed by humans
- human factors play a primary role
- Core ontology
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- underlying formal model for tools that integrate
source data and perform a variety of extended functions
- higher levels of complexity are tolerable
- completeness and logical correctness are
the driving forces
- base for deriving knowledge
CIDOC-CRM is a formal ontology which can be used to
perform reasoning.