Ontologien in den historischen Wissenschaften. (German).
Historical Social Research, 31 (3):
308 - 315 (2006)Abstract
Databases are for historians a mighty tool, especially for the statistical analysis of huge qualities of data. But the tool can only work with a solid data structure that is defined on a recta-level. To guarantee this structure, computer scientists developed for most different scopes ontologies - the topic of the following elementary article. After the definition of ontologies as formal defined systems of concepts and relations with rules of inference and integrity, a special vocabulary for entities and relations and conditions of completeness and correctness of the terms, the following article will introduce the basic concepts of a specific ontology - CIDOC CRM (Comité International pour la Documentation Conceptual Reference Model). The fundamental terms Entities and Properties will be explained as well as their structure and their underlying rules. ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR