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Edmund Lee
FISH

"Practice of Knowledge Sharing"
International CIDOC CRM Workshop
                        ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
April 20-22 2004 

The CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group  and ICS-FORTH invite you to a
three-day International Workshop designed to bring together researchers and
practitioners in information provision and exchange, be it within
organizations or on the envisaged semantic Web, in the area of scientific
and cultural heritage, with the goal to present and discuss technical,
organizational, and philosophical issues of effectively sharing knowledge
among museums, libraries, and archives and integrating information within
cultural institutions. 

The program will comprise 2 days of submitted papers and discussions. The
third day will be a CIDOC CRM SIG working meeting, open to all interested
newcomers. The working meeting will deal with the planning of actions in
reaction to the discussions and presentations.  Paper submissions are
welcome on the following topics (or any other topic relevant to the workshop
theme):

· Inferencing, queries and user interfaces to large repositories of cultural
information, in particular in CRM compatible form. Hiding complexity to the
user.
· Methodology and tools of mapping source schemata to the CRM or other
global models for information integration.
· Visualization of the CRM and other ontologies rich in relationships.
· Integration architecture for large-scale cultural information services:
mediator versus data warehouse approach.
· Systems and architectures for large organizations that integrate
collection, laboratory, archive and library data.
· Optimal data store for repositories of cultural information: RDBMS versus
RDF triples, functionality-specific optimizations.
· Methodology and organization of a mapping registry and other information
services to support users in questions of information integration
· Teaching the CRM: methods, target audiences, translations. 
· New applications of core ontologies as the CRM

Submission can be for: papers, presentations, and position statements. 

All contributions will be Web-published on the CIDOC CRM Web-site
(http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr). Proposals, accompanied by an abstract of
100-300 words, should be sent to 

Dr. Martin Doerr, 
ICS-FORTH, Heraklion-Crete, 
tel:+30 810 391625, e-mail:[log in to unmask]
 

Submission dead-line by January 30, 2004. 

Notification of acceptance by February 15, 2004. 


The Workshop will be held at the facilities of the Foundation for Research
and Technology Hellas (FORTH), in Heraklion, Crete, Greece.  Attendance will
be free and does not depend on a submission or acceptance of a proposal.
Participants are responsible for their own travel, accommodation, and meal
costs. Light refreshments will be provided.  To assist our organization,
participants are kindly asked to send a notification of participation by
April 1st 2004. 


Background:
The International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) Conceptual Reference
Model (CRM) Special Interest Group (SIG) is an international group of
curatorial domain specialists, museum documentation experts, and information
scientists.  Formed as a special group within the International Council of
Museums' (ICOM) International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC-Committee
International pour la Documentation), the CRM SIG has worked for the last
three years in partnership with ISO Technical Committee 46 to refine and
validate the CIDOC CRM (ISO/CD 21127) and guide it through the ISO
standardization process towards full ISO standard status.  It has reached
now its final form. The CRM represents an ontology for curatorial knowledge,
i.e. it describes in a formal language the explicit and implicit concepts
and relations relevant to the documentation of museum objects and cultural
heritage.  The CIDOC CRM can be used for conceptual reference, data
exchange, systems design, data integration, mediation systems and data
warehouse schemes. 

The CIDOC CRM will be presented and discussed on April 19, 2004 from 14:00
to 17:00  as a separate seminar before the Symposium, if enough participants
declare their interest. Please declare interest in this seminar until
January 30.
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