Issue 682: List externally maintained CRM Compatible Extensions on New Section of CRM Site

Post by George Bruseker (5 September 2024)

Dear all,

I am proposing this issue after discussions with many members of the SIG as an initiative to broaden the outreach of the SIG in relation to the community adopting the standard.

In brief, the proposal is to list CRM compatible extensions that are not developed by the SIG on a new section of the website. The aim of so doing would be to provide a  consolidated place for finding the rich body of work of many projects and teams working to extend the CRM to apply to different application areas. It would provide a place on the official site of the SIG where this valuable work can be seen / found and reused in line with the basic principles of FAIR data and the long term open source tradition of the CRM SIG.

In order to do this, however, we should of course look to make sure that the high quality of CRM extensions is maintained. 

Therefore, we need a document to define what is a CIDOC CRM compatible model, in what sense it is so and what formally must be done to list an extension to the CIDOC CRM on the website.

The document linked below, therefore, provides a description of a new, three level description of CRM compatible models

    CRM base
    CRM harmonized extensions (e.g.: LRMoo, CRMsci etc.)
    CRM compatible extensions 

After defining what these various levels mean it then proposes the criteria by which a new extension of either harmonized or compatible level can be initiated and what is required in order for it to be listed on the CRM SIG website.

The thoughts and perspectives of the community on this opening up to listing externally maintained CRM compatible extensions are welcome. We aim to fully discuss and flesh out whether this is a good idea at the upcoming SIG.

Please find the document with the initial definition of this proposal here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_mY2aQUFDQq5KZEnx15eTpM-6q8lJJnr/edi...

Sincerely,

George
Vice-Chair CRM SIG