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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>Dear CRM colleagues,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>Those with an
interest in the built or archaeological heritage may wish to review the current
version of the MIDAS Heritage data standard, which is currently available for
comment at </span></font><font size=2 face="Gill Sans MT"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT"'><a
href="http://www.fish-forum.info/midaspr.htm">http://www.fish-forum.info/midaspr.htm</a>
until 29th June.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>MIDAS Heritage has
been informed by the development of the CIDOC CRM, and the MIDAS XML schemas,
party of the FISH Interoperability Toolkit (see <a
href="http://heritage-standards.org/">http://heritage-standards.org</a> .</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>The formal connection
between MIDAS and the CRM-SIG is </span></font><font face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>Matthew Stiff</span></font><font
face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span style='font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>, and
I believe (put me right if I’ve got this wrong Matthew!) that he will be reviewing
MIDAS Heritage specifically for CRM conformance.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>Some features of
MIDAS Heritage that may be of interest:-</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>There has been a more
rigorous grouping of units of information under fairly self-contained Information
Groups. Within each group there are mandatory and optional units.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>The Information
groups are themselves gathered into themes which are closely identifiable with the
CRM e.g. Heritage Asset (= ‘stuff’ I think); Events; Actors; Timespans
etc.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>There is more
emphasis on the required and optional relationships between these information
groups. It feels more like topic maps and less like relational databases.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>Please pass any
formal comment on MIDAS Heritage to <a
href="mailto:midas@english-heritage.org.uk">midas@english-heritage.org.uk</a> though
I would welcome any informal discussion on this list.</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>Best wishes</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>Edmund Lee</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 face="Gill Sans MT Light"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT Light"'>English Heritage</span></font></p>
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