But What Is An Event? Modeling Historical Data with TEI and CIDOC-CRM

Diane Jakacki

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21968267

August 16, 2026Open Access

But What Is An Event? Modeling Historical Data with TEI and CIDOC-CRM

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Investigate theoretical and practical approaches to defining and modeling historical events using Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) guidelines and the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC-CRM).
Comparative conceptual analysis of event representation mechanisms in document-centric TEI markup and graph-based CIDOC-CRM ontologies.
Evaluation of alignment strategies to bridge textual annotations with formal cultural heritage data models.
Highlights structural divergences in how historical events are scoped and classified between text-based annotations and formal knowledge graphs.
Outlines integration workflows that link document markups to relational event ontologies, facilitating semantic interoperability across digital humanities archives.

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Methodological analysis evaluates event conceptualization across historical datasets, highlighting integration between TEI encoding and CIDOC-CRM frameworks.

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Long paper presented at the TEI Annual Conference and Members' Meeting.

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