8th Joint CIDOC CRM SIG and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9 meeting) in Oxford

6th/Oct/2003

• Questions for CRM:
  1. Concept browser : CRM is keen to have a good graphical browser, and mentioned that there is collaboration with a Japanese univ for the browser
  2. Simplification/Inference/Reasoning
  We may need partially predefined queries to configure in advance what to show or how to show. Reasoning can also be pre-defined with a small set of common sense
  3. Storing instances ?
  4. Incorporating thesaurus
  As long as the connected thesaurus has a proper link to one of the the upper-level entities in CRM, it is no problem.
  5. Mapping methodology: who does mapping/implementation Guidelines
  Three steps
  • source normalization
  • mapping languages
  • mapping graphically:
  Automatic generations of transformation codes (how to define URL, how to detect duplicate ones) - We might need URL scheme for CRM entities
• Attendance: 4-5 CRM people, total 30-40???
• Introduction to the CRM
CRM was originally formatted in TELOS (a kind of ER model, conceptual modeling language; TELOS Instances can be stored in RDBMS, OODBMS, XML, or RDFS CRM is not for data entry, no prescriptions for what/how to model Events are central Martin’s presentation covered some major concepts and relations. It might look like that some CRM entities do not have distinctive attributes, but either they use different relations or they have different targets E70.Stuff has two subclasses one for physical and the other one is for conceptual E26.Physical-Stuff is for something which we don’t want to call it as an object, e.g.) holes, cracks
• Changing CRM?
CRM is continuously updated its entities and relations so it is difficult to have the final version, in addition, its RDFS version is partially complete that there is danger to use the RDFS without considering the original text version.
• ISO Draft documentation submitted version 3.4.2
• Presentation of CRM practitioners (five presentations)
  1. Sculpteur
  2. NCCA (National Taiwan Archive of Cultural Heritage) More info They want to use CRM as a reference model for digitalizing their resources, have not yet implemented anything, though
  3. Topic Maps: Richard Light, a dynamic integration of resources and provides a presentation
  4. MIDAS (Monuments Standards Achieves)
  5. Matthew Stiff, use the CRM for describing information stored in a simplified way?
• What’s next Workshop is penciled on April 20-21th in Florence, Italy after CAA meeting CAA 2004