Dear All,
Let me please bring our CRM-SIG workshop day Sept 7, in the
framework of CIDOC2014 in Dresden.
See also:
http://www.cidoc2014.de/index.php/en/home/program-information/workshops-en
This workshop will consist of three presentations and following discussions:
1)CIDOC CRM Tutorial (presenter Christian-Emil Ore):
The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CIDOC CRM) and ISO21127, is a
semantically rich ontology that delivers data harmonisation based on
empirically analysed contextual relationships rather than relying on a
traditional fixed field/value approach, overly generalised relationships
or an artificial set of core metadata. It recognises that cultural data
is a living growing resource and cannot be commoditised or squeezed into
artificial pre-conceived boxes. Rather, it is diverse and variable
containing perspectives that incorporate different institutional
histories, disciplines and objectives. The CIDOC CRM retains these
perspectives yet provides the opportunity for computational reasoning
across large numbers of heterogeneous sources from different
organisations, and creates an environment for engaging and exploration
through its network of relationships. The core ontology supports the
whole cultural heritage community including museums, libraries and
archives and provides a growing set of specialist extensions. This
tutorial will present requirements for the model, its form and selected
concepts, including new concepts in version 6.0.It will further present
a practical exercise how to transform data to a CRM-compatible form.
See also: www.cidoc-crm.org <http://www.cidoc-crm.org>
2)CRMSci Scientific Observation Modeland CRMarcheo
(presenter Chrysoula Bekiari)
The CRMSci is a formal ontology intended to be used as a global schema
for integrating metadata about scientific observation, measurements and
processed data in descriptive and empirical sciences such as
biodiversity, geology, geography, archaeology, cultural heritage
conservation and others in research IT environments and research data
libraries. It uses and extends the CIDOC CRM (ISO21127) as a general
ontology of human activity, things and events happening in spacetime.
The Scientific Observation Model has been developed bottom up from
specific metadata examples from biodiversity, geology, archeology,
cultural heritage conservation and clinical studies, such as water
sampling in aquifer systems, earthquake shock recordings, landslides,
excavation processes, species occurrence and detection of new species,
tissue sampling in cancer research, 3D digitization, based on
communication with the domain experts and the implementation and
validation in concrete applications. It takes into account relevant
standards, such as INSPIRE, OBOE, national archeological standards for
excavation, Digital Provenance models and others.
CRMarchaeo is an extension of CIDOC CRM with the aim to encode metadata
aboutthe archaeological excavation process. It is being developed in the
framework of the ARIADNE European Research Infrastructure for
Archaeology. The goal of this model is to provide the means to document
excavations in such a way that the following functionality is supported:
Maximize interpretation capability after excavation or to continue
excavation; reason of excavation (research goals); possibility of
knowledge revision after excavation; comparing previous excavations on
same site (space) and all kinds of comprehensive statistical studies
("collective behavior").
The presentation will give an introduction to both ontologies including
real-life examples of use. Both ontologies have been proposed to CIDOC
CRM SIG for revision and approval as CIDOC compatible extensions.
3)The Synergy Reference Model of Data Provision and Aggregation
(presenter Dominic Oldman)
The increased use of aggregation services and the growing use of the
CIDOC CRM has necessitated a new initiative to develop a data
provisioning reference model targeted at solving fundamental
infrastructure problems ignored by data integration initiatives to date.
These problems include data quality issues (the lack of adequate
semantic and contextual meaning), the use of fixed field/value models
that remove local perspectives , the lack of integration with data
providers and their expertise and knowledge, and the lack of tangible
benefits for providers and users alike.Instead the proposed model is
designed to be distributed and collaborative and not divorced from
providers as in more centralized systems. In reality it is the
information providers that curate and understand the source resources
and that update these resources at regular intervals.The provider is the
one who can verify or falsify statements about the evidence in their
hands. The role of the aggregator includes the responsibility for the
homogeneous access and the synopsis of consistency, whereas any
inconsistencies should be made known to, and can only be resolved by,
the original providers. However, the process of data transformation to
the aggregator's target system requires a level of quality control that
is often beyond the means of prospective providers. All current
transformation tools fail to support integration of data from a large
number of providers that inevitably undergoes continuous data, format
and semantic changes at both the provider and aggregator side. The
proposed reference models specifies particular business processes, S/W
components and Open S/W interfaces for a comprehensive solution to this
problem. The presentation will present the complete rationale and give
an overview over the workflow and components.
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