Dear all, I have been asked to make a presentation of CRM in front of a French audience on May 20, 2003 (just the day after the ISO meeting in Rome!). This audience will consist of members of a French society of documentalists and librarians (the announcement of that symposium is to be found at: http://www.adbs.fr/site/evenements/journees/journee.php?limit=0&annee=&id=58&version=1 ). Here is the text I've prepared for that purpose: (See attached file: ADBS_CRM.doc)(of course it had to be in French, but I know some of you are fluent in French); I'll send you my slides as well... as soon as I've finished them! The third section is very much inspired from (indeed, it is a mere translation/adaptation of) some parts of Nick, Martin and Tony's paper in Cultivate Interactive, but in the second section you might be interested by a tentative "conversion" of a bibliographic record in UNIMARC format into a CRM-compatible formalism, based on Martin's paper "Converting object documentation into a CRM-compatible XML form". This is only a prelude to a future fully developed UNIMARC_to_CRM mapping, that I promised quite a long time ago... As my audience will be a French-speaking one, I translated all the XML tags into French for their conveniance, but I am aware that in a real-life project the tags should remain as they are. I am supposed to submit my paper as early as tomorrow, which leaves you but little time to react and send me your comments and criticisms; but I still can change things in my slide presentation if there are big mistakes in my text, provided I've received your comments before Friday 16 (I'll fly to Rome on Friday afternoon, and back to Paris on Monday evening immediately after the ISO WG9 meeting and won't have an opportunity to jump to my office before the symposium on Tuesday morning). Best wishes, Patrick
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