Description:

This model aims to cover the field of conservation and restoration of cultural objects, including the analysis and studies of the cultural objects, such as art works or historical monuments. It provides concepts as they are handled by the domain's professionals: cultural objects, interventions on the ground, artworks' analysis, scientific instrumentation, alteration, materials etc. 

This ontology is destined especially to museums and cultural institutions, in order to facilitate the protection and curation of Cultural Heritage (CH). These institutions share some common grounds and their actors need to gather and exchange knowledge about diagnosis' method, analysis results, treatments, preventive measures etc. 

This model uses CIDOC CRM (7.x.x) as a general ontology of human activity, things and events happening in space and time. It uses also CRMsci v.1.6, the "Scientific Observation Model" which is an extension of CIDOC CRM to integrate metadata for scientific observation, measurements and processed data in descriptive and empirical sciences. 

The CRM cr v.1 extension was carried out in the PARCOURS Project and re-shaped in a v.2 in the REPERAGE Project.