Cultural Documentation: The Clio System

Abstract

Cultural documentation, i.e. the recording and management of a body of knowledge about ensembles of cultural goods, presents special requirements of a computer-based information system, not met by ordinary documentation systems and cultural information bases. The CLIO system aims at covering these needs, while it can also cooperate with an administrative documentation system. Information is organized in CLIO as a knowledge base according to a specifically designed semantic model. The construction of CLIO allows extremely dense linking of information, access by unlimited chained references, expression of abstract properties and various ways of joint temporal and spatial assignment. It also allows the extension and modification of the data schema by the users, thus supporting the easy adaptation of the system to the field of work and the evolution of knowledge. 1. The documentation of cultural goods and the CLIO system. The documentation requirements of cultural goods range from keepin..