Francesco, Vincent and I met earlier this morning to discuss the scope of the CRMsoc extension and we came up with the following text as a starting point based on similar text from previous extensions:
----------------- # Scope CRM Social is an ontology that can be used to encode metadata about activities and phenomena which take place within societies and are the result of social constructs. It has been developed as a compatible extension of ISO21127 (CIDOC-CRM) and it can be used to reason on data in cultural heritage collections which relate to the provenance, care, social reception and value of things. While cultural heritage collections are the focus, we recognise the breadth of scope for CRM Social and at the moment we have identified the following areas which we believe that the model covers: * Social relations, including between people (such as family and professional relationships), between people and groups (such as nationality and gender), and between groups (companies, NGOs, political parties). * Rights and duties (such as ownership by inheritance and legal requirements by birth). * Economic activities, including relations between people and things, such as financial transactions leading to ownership. * Plans, including expressing proposed activities (for example in conservation and collection care planning) and legislation. * Evaluations, including assessing risks and estimating the value of things. CRM Social is developed following analysis of requirements of the SPECTRUM museum standard (e.g. Acquisition and Accessioning procedure and Documentation planning procedure), Linked Art community, Data for History consortium and the domain of heritage conservation. # Status Under development! # Naming conventions CRM Social classes and properties are given both a name and an identifier following the conventions of the CIDOC-CRM. Class identifiers start with the letters "socE" and are followed by a number. Property identifiers start with the letters "socP" and are also followed by a number. When using a property in the reverse direction (inverse property) the identifier is further followed by the letter āiā (see also section Applied Form ā Naming Conventions of the CIDOC-CRM definition document). ----------------- Looking forward to your comments. All the best, Thanasis This email and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and/or its attachments you must not take any action based upon them and you must not copy or show them to anyone. Please send the email back to us and immediately and permanently delete it and its attachments. Where this email is unrelated to the business of University of the Arts London or of any of its group companies the opinions expressed in it are the opinions of the sender and do not necessarily constitute those of University of the Arts London (or the relevant group company). Where the sender's signature indicates that the email is sent on behalf of UAL Short Courses Limited the following also applies: UAL Short Courses Limited is a company registered in England and Wales under company number 02361261. Registered Office: University of the Arts London, 272 High Holborn, London WC1V 7EY
