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/ed…;
Sincerely,
George
Vice-Chair CRM SIG
In the 59th joint meeting of the CIDOC CRM and ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9 & 52nd FRBR/LRMoo SIG, participants reviewed the proposal by George and Martin concerning the adoption of a three-tier system to maintaining the CIDOC CRM and extensions.
- George's slide deck can be found here.
- The document it references can be found here.
- For the details of the discussion see here.
Decision:
The SIG voted to streamline the document describing how to maintain CRM compatible extensions. Among the things that will be considered before the document gets resubmitted to the SIG, is the terms used for the two types of compatible extensions, the metadata that should be provided for an extension that is not maintained by the SIG to be referenced on the site.
HW assigned to: GB, MD, SH, DO, PM, MP, CEO, PR
Plovdiv, September 2024
Post by George Bruseker (30 March 2025)
Dear all,
I am pleased to share with you a working document to support our very first topic of the upcoming SIG, issue 682:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ouS9vZDTwSzxSKaQKoWZ4Qo6tPbJ-buNRg…
This document will lead you to several other documents which are themselves subject of discussion and potential approval.
Here is the record of the issue from the site:
https://cidoc-crm.org/Issue/ID-682-list-externally-maintained-crm-compa…
This issue was discussed at the previous SIG and received a warm reception with, at the same time, the SIG asking for various clarifications and additional work to be done.
I want to thank all the members of the team that joined in the vigorous conversations and discussions shaping and refining the proposal and building up the various necessary supporting documents and procedures, especially Martin for putting a big effort into redacting the texts and clarifying the intended role of extensions as part of the overall plan and method of the CRM ontology.
I think we have arrived in a good place after several constructive reviews and have a series of decidable sub issues that will allow us to move this important initiative forward.
Look forward to seeing you in Bern!
Best,
George