Hello fellow #cidocCRM SIG members, I know many of you are in Milan for #CIDOC2016 and that today there were the two sessions on #cidocCRM and research environments. I so wish I could have been there for much-appreciated inspiration and comradery. I hope videos of the presentations, or at least the papers and/or slides will be made available to those of us who were not fortunate enough to be there.
While I have been quiet of late, I have not been idle. As my applied research is focused on an innovative application of the #cidocCRM/#FRBRoo/#PRESSoo ontological "stack", I have found much greater interest and support for my research in the UK and Europe. Most exciting of these collaborations is with the PRImA Research Lab at the University of Salford (http://www.primaresearch.org/). Through this work, I was invited onto the Program Committee for the upcoming #DATeCH conference (delayed from this October until this coming Spring due to multi-conference scheduling issues). The most exciting part of these developments is that, at age 65, I am submitting my first academic research paper! Bucket-List, check!!! :D As a serial entrepreneur and corporate consultant, everything I did during my career was proprietary. This experience is made all the more special for me as I am doing my applied research as an independent #CitizenScientist and #DigitalHistorian within my post-cancer #PayItForward Bonus Round activity. My first paper submitted to #DATeCH describes my collaboration with PRImA where FactMiners is proposing the MAGAZINE format as a superset of PRImA's PAGE GTS (#GroundTruthStorage) format. Here is a link to a PDF of my submission available from my OneDrive cloud storage: https://goo.gl/cFMcQH. Since #DATeCH has been delayed until this coming Spring, I already have a second submission in development which is going to be an excellent complement to this current paper. I am working on a corpus/data-set of Softalk magazine TOC (table of contents), mastheads, and Advertiser Index pages as found here: https://github.com/SoftalkAppleProject/datasets_toc-masthead-adindex. I am working with PRImA to help shift the OCR/layout-recognition folks from a bottom-up page-focused approach (Rainman-type thinking) to a top-down whole-issue and complete serial publication perspective (Sherlock-type thinking). Specifically, I will be using #PRESSoo's Z12 Issuing Rule and Z5 Issuing Rule Change classes as entity "containers" for a fine-grained pattern language describing the complex document structure of the commercial magazine. The ISSN SIG authors current scope note and examples for these entities have a rather limited assumption about the potential use of this model element. (See http://goo.gl/LqBGrz) But I believe Issuing Rules are a perfect way to bring a top-down serial publication strategy to the text- and layout-recognition strategy within the digitization pipeline. If anyone is currently using #PRESSoo or has plans to use it, please feel free to contact me so we can exchange ideas and explore potential collaboration. In closing, for those attending #CIDOC2016, please update us non-attendees via Twitter and on this listserv when you have a chance so we can share the excitement of learning about the latest work to advance the cause of developing and encouraging the use of #cidocCRM. As always, I value hearing from anyone sharing similar interests to my applied research. Also, while the format and presentation is not rigorous scientific publication, I have been chronicling my insights and experiences in exploring the intersection of #CognitiveComputing and #DigitalHumanities through articles posted on Medium here: https://medium.com/@Jim_Salmons/ I hope you have a chance to check out my Bonus Round activity. :-) BTW, for my and Timlynn's 25th wedding anniversary present to ourselves, we funded the digitization of the complete 48-issue run of Softalk magazine into the Internet Archive which is the repository where FactMiners and PRImA are doing our collaboration (https://archive.org/details/softalkapple). The latest edition of PRImA's Aletheia Ground-Truth tool now reads the Internet Archive's standard djvuXML files and has been a tremendous accelerator to my work developing the MAGAZINE format. Happy-Healthy Vibes, -: Jim :- Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky Twitter: @Jim_Salmons, @TimlynnBabitsky, @FactMiners, @Softalk_Apple www.FactMiners.org (Our #CitizenScience project) www.SoftalkApple.com (Our #DigitalHistory project)
