Hello all, I am still out there somewhere! A question - what are the plans for Brasil?
Tony - I would add to the outline a promotional piece, for example, Why CRM is important - for managers, usability engineers, directors ... etc - for those who do not want to understand CRM but wonder if they should invest in CRM. Kati Tony Gill <[email protected]>@ics.forth.gr on 06/21/2002 11:23:50 PM Sent by: [email protected] To: [email protected] cc: Subject: [crm-sig] Draft CIDOC CRM Homepage text Folks, Here's a first draft of some text for the CIDOC CRM homepage. It attempts to capture all of the salient points about the CRM as briefly as possible. Here's the "conceptual" layout: - Very brief one paragraph description - A paragraph elaborating the CRM's scope (p.s. Nick - ICOM statutes appear to have been revised) - Brief guide to potential applications (4 bullet points cribbed off Nick's draft doc) - Paragraph with techie details about the CRM - Paragraph with details of history, maintenenance, ownership, ISO submission Comments, revisions, counter-proposals all welcome. <--start--> The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC CRM) is a knowledge representation framework for cultural heritage information. It represents the concepts and relationships that museums use to document their collections as a formally-defined "domain ontology." The scope of CIDOC CRM is very broad; documentation about the material evidence of people and their environment, at a sufficient level of depth and quality to enable serious academic research. This includes information about museum collections of all kinds, and much of the documentation about library and archive collections. There are a number of potential applications for the CIDOC CRM: * An aid to mutual comprehension By providing a rich and detailed formal analysis of the cultural heritage domain, the CRM can be used as a semantic reference tool to establish a common understanding between people in different disciplines and domains, and facilitate unambiguous dialogue between cultural heritage experts and technical specialists. * A tool for reliable data exchange The CRM can serve as a technical reference for use in comparing, evaluating and mapping between heterogeneous cultural data schema and systems. * A reference for cultural information systems design The CRM can be used as a reference when creating technical specifications for the design of new information systems in the cultural heritage domain. Although it is not intended as a data storage or delivery format, it can help developers create well-designed systems that avoid some of the common pitfalls caused by under-estimating the complexity of information in the cultural heritage domain. * Mediation systems The CRM could form the basis for integrated query tools and mediation systems. Many features of the CRM have been specifically designed with mediation in mind, allowing data to be combined from relatively rich and less detailed sources in a meaningful way and without loss of detail. The CIDOC CRM is expressed as an object-oriented model, which provides exceptional expressive power in an elegant and extensible framework that is particularly well-suited to the cultural heritage domain. Version 3.3.1 consists of 80 classes, and 123 property links between those classes. It is particularly well-suited to expression as an RDF (Resource Description Framework) Schema, and is highly applicable for museum applications of the W3C's Semantic Web. The CIDOC CRM was first published in 1998 by the International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). It is maintained by the CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group on behalf of the CIDOC Documentation Standards Working Group. It represents over a decade of standards work by museum documentation professionals and data modeling experts, and is currently under submission to the International Standards Organization for review and publication as an ISO standard. <--end--> Cheers, T. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony Gill <[email protected]>, RLG <http://www.rlg.org/> 1200 Villa Street, Mountain View, CA 94041 USA Voice: +1 (650) 691-2304 <> Fax: +1 (650) 964-1461
