Dear All,
The next CRM SIG Meeting will take place in Nuremberg,
Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Germany, Nov 14-15, 2005
(see also http://cidoc.ics.forth.gr)
Local Organizer: Siegfried Krause
Workshop focus:
Semantic interoperability and factual linking:
With the CIDOC CRM, we have demostrated how core ontologies can be employed
to integrate information in heterogeneous schemata in cultural heritage
and beyond, by query mediation, data transformation or data merging.
The merging may be physical or virtual by suitable linking across
resources.
In the past, we have discussed the problem of mapping different schemata
to the CRM. This is still an open issue, but as time proceeds, more
solutions are proposed. We would like to draw our attention to the next
problem: Even if there is a perfect transformation of all data into one
(virtual) global schema, information is still not merged. The different
information assets usually refer to the same real world items in very
different ways. This problem is often referred to as "data cleaning" or
"duplicate removal". A series of case-specific ad-hoc heuristics have been
proposed and employed for bibliographic references, thesaurus merging and
others. It is regarded as a local problem of an intermediate processing
step to the "ideal" data set. It appears however, that the assessment of
identity of two references is a fundamental epistemological problem, be
it about persons, places, objects, periods, events or common concepts. Once the
identity is recognized, the two references give rise to a "factual link"
between two documents.
We would like to INVITE contributions, about theoretical considerations,
experience reports, upcoming projects and collaborations to the following
topics:
Semantic interoperability and factual linking.
Identity of events, periods and concepts.
Transition between factual and categorical information.
Progress in schema mapping tools.
Provisional agenda:
Mo: 9:30-12:30 CIDOC CRM Tutorial
14:00-17:00 Presentations & Discussions
Di: 9:30-13:00 Presentation and Discussions
14:30-17:00 Progress report ISO process
Progress report of FRBR-CRM harmonization
Discussion of CRM extensions
Educational materials
Dedicated discussions will take place about:
A) Factual linking, CRM Core and Dublin Core
B) MetaCRM: systematic generation of categorical links from the CRM
C) Event identity: substance, part-whole relationships of events and
view-dependent aggregation of events.
PLEASE announce us your participation AS SOON AS possible, specifying
the events you wish to attend, and the kind of presentation you would
like to make. Proposals for further discussion topics welcome.
Best,
Martin
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