Dear All, For those not present in Copenhagen, a short report on the meeting. A full report will follow soon.
The meeting successfully closed all open amendment issues. The CRM comprises now ten years of experience in cultural information modelling, and 3 years of systematic search to make sure that all important aspects of cultural information exchange are covered adequately by the CIDOC CRM. The Group felt, that this work has been brought to an end successfully. Therefore Group decided, that the CIDOC CRM is finalized from a modelling perspective. This means, that no more constructs will be added to the CRM, no modelling approach will be changed and the scope of the CRM is regarded as what it covers now. We shall soon publish the respective version 3.4.0, which is basically an extension of the current version 3.2. We wish to thank all participants for the excellent meeting and the spirit of collaboration despite the huge amount of work, that left virtually no free minute. we wish also to thank Lene Rold and her group for the excellent local organisation and support. Until the next meeting, there is still space to fix problems of inner consistency. It turned out that the best control of the inner semantic consistency of the Model is the review of all properties in context (i.e. if the Model describes "intended models" or possible states of affairs we are interested in. The logical consistency is controlled by automatic tools). The second review and final decision on about a hundred scope notes out of 130 brought up only two such cases, were a property was found to be covered by another one. Besides that, this review brought up 8 proposals for improvement of other entity scope notes and a few property names. It is planned to create the missing property scope notes and to review all 30 property scope notes not yet officially accepted latest a month before the next meeting, so that any inner inconsistencies that may be revealed in this process can be resolved before the next meeting. Following this plan, the next meeting will finalize the last details in the definition of the CIDOC CRM, in time with our intended working schedule. Further, the next meeting will address questions of application, user contact and dissemination, extended documentation and the "packaging" and formatting of the standard. It will make a particular focus on making the CIDOC CRM and its application potential comprehensible to all potential users. We hope for great participation. The planned dates are : Tuesday, October 22-25, alternatively Tuesday October 29 - Nov 1. Venue: City of Rethymnon, 60 km west of Heraklion, easy to reach with public transport, in the historic building of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies of FORTH. It is a beautiful place in a quiet area in the historical center of Rethymnon, the most beautiful city center in Crete. It will be easy to find accommodation in that season. Please let me know as soon as possible, if you plan to attend, and if one of both dates causes a problem for your coming. best wishes, Martin -------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Martin Doerr | Vox:+30(810)391625 | Principle Researcher | Fax:+30(810)391609 | Project Leader SIS | Email: [email protected] | | Information Systems Laboratory | Institute of Computer Science | Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) | | Vassilika Vouton,P.O.Box1385,GR71110 Heraklion,Crete,Greece | | Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl | --------------------------------------------------------------
