From TEI to a CIDOC-CRM Conforming Model: Towards a Better Integration Between Text Collections and Other Sources of Cultural Historical Documentation

n the last couple of years, there has been a growing interesttowards including into TEI documents information aboutthe world rather than information concerning the text of thedocument to be encoded only .W e see examples of this throughrecent additions to the TEI standard, e.g. the person element(TEI P5, sec. 20.4.2), as well as through the work in theOntologies SIG since itwas established in 2004 (TEI OntologySIG WIKI). In the SIG, the topic of discussion is how toorganise this kind of information about the world according tospecific ontologies.One particularly promising ontology in this context is the CRM(CIDOC 2003). It has been used together with T opic Maps toorganize information from TEI documents (T uohy 2006) andas an attempt to find a solution to the so-called exhibitionproblem (Eide 2006). Further , attempts have been made toformalise a way to connect TEI and CRM documents (Ore2006).In this paper ,we propose a method for automatic generation ofCRM conforming models based on TEI documents. W e willdiscuss limitations to this approach, as well as ways these maybe overcome.