[LINK] CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model

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> Subject: DCC Tutorial: The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model 
> - A New Standard for Knowledge Sharing
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:08:46 +0000
> From: Joy Davidson <british.editor at ERPANET.ORG>
> To:Interoperability issues across domains INTEROPERABILITY at JISCMAIL.AC.UK

DCC Tutorial: The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model - A New Standard for 
Knowledge Sharing  29/01/2008  University of Glasgow

The DCC and FORTH are delighted to announce that they will be delivering a 
joint one-day tutorial on the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model. 

This tutorial will introduce the audience to the CIDOC Conceptual 
Reference Model, a core ontology and ISO standard (ISO 21127) for the 
semantic integration of cultural information with library, archive and 
other information. The CIDOC CRM concentrates on the definition of 
relationships, rather than terminology, in order to mediate between 
heterogeneous database schemata and metadata structures. This led to a 
compact model of 80 classes and 130 relationships, easy to comprehend and 
suitable to serve as a basis for mediation of cultural and library 
information and thereby provide the semantic 'glue' needed to transform 
today's disparate, localised information sources into a coherent and 
valuable global resource. It comprises the concepts characteristic for 
data structures employed by most museum, archive and library 
documentation. 

Its central idea is the explicit modelling of events, both for the
representation of metadata, such as creation, publication, and use,
as well as for content summarization and the creation of integrated 
knowledge bases. It is not prescriptive, but provides a framework to 
describe common high-level semantics that allow for information 
integration at the schema level for a wide area of domains.

The CIDOC CRM, as an effort of the museums community, is paralleled by the 
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) by IFLA for the 
librarians community. Both Working Groups have come together since 2003 
and started to develop a common harmonized model. The first draft version 
is now available as a compatible extension of the CRM, the ooFRBR, 
covering equally libraries and museums.

The tutorial aims at rendering the necessary knowledge to understand the 
potential of applying the CRM - where it can be useful and what the major 
technical issues of an application are. It will present an overview of the 
concepts and relationships covered by the CRM. As an example of a simple 
application, it will present the CRM Core Metadata Element Set, a minimal 
metadata schema of about 20 elements, still compatible with the CRM, and 
demonstrate how even this simple schema can be used to create large 
networks of integrated knowledge about physical and digital objects, 
persons, places and events. As an example of a simple compatible 
extension, it will present the core model of digitization processes used 
in the CASPAR project to describe digital provenance.

In part two, the tutorial will present in detail the draft ooFRBR Model.
This model describes in detail the intellectual creation process from the 
first conception to the publishing in industrial form such as books or 
electronically. It should be considered equally interesting for the 
digital libraries community, and it is a fine example of the extensibility 
of the CRM for dedicated domains. 

There will be enough time for questions and discussion. 

Presenter:
Martin Doerr, Information Systems Lab, Institute of Computer Science, 
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Vassilika Vouton.

Target audience: 
Ontology experts, digital library designers, data warehouse designers, 
system integrators, portal designers that work in the wider area of 
cultural and library information, but also IT-Staff of libraries, museums 
and archives, vendors of cultural and other information systems. Basic 
knowledge of object-oriented data models is required.

Duration: 
Part one: 3 hours
Part two: 1.5 hours  

Cost:
£50 for DCC Associate Network members and £75 for non members. 

If you are interested in taking part, please email 
british.editor at erpanet.org. 

Please feel free to forward this message on to any interested parties. 

Best regards,

Joy Davidson
DCC Training Coordinator and ERPANET British Editor Humanities Advanced 
Technology and Information Institute (HATII) George Service House, 11 
University Gardens, University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QJ Scotland
Tel: +44(0)141 330 8592
Fax: +44(0)141 330 3788
http://www.dcc.ac.uk
http://www.digitalpreservationeurope.eu
british.editor at erpanet.org
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Cheers CIDOC
Stephen Loosley
Victoria, Australia