Dear all,

So here is Takin's first iteration of the mapping of the Information
Categories to CIDOC CRM.

https://zellij.pythonanywhere.com/docs/list/appWazIHCbYoDxAqu?scraper=Models&selectedMenuItem=%2Fdocs%2Fdisplay%2FappWazIHCbYoDxAqu%2FModels%3Fsearch%3DINGM.4_Physical%2BObject

We have mapped the original document (which I think was never fully
complete) to CIDOC CRM using Linked.Art as the target model.

We used the SRDM method for documenting the patterns into models.

https://openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.5334/johd.282

I think this could be a very interesting project to take further in
connection with the rest of CIDOC connecting with DSWG and Linked.Art at
the very least.

Anyhow, I can report on this work if there is time.

BEst,

George

On Mon, Sep 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM George Bruseker <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Christian Emil,
>
> I agree a is important, but I took a crack at b too.
>
> For the documentation of the information groups considered as an
> information standard, Takin is making an alignment to CIDOC CRM and
> documenting them as data patterns on the Zellij semantic data pattern
> management tool. We will be able to share this work by the time of the
> meeting and seek your feedback on correctness, and what we might want to do
> with it.
>
> Best,
> George
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 11:19 AM Christian-Emil Smith Ore <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I support the a as the highest priority. The categories in b stem from
>> the CICOC relational data model presented in Stavanger in 1995 . The model
>> was found to  be too complex and resulted in the work with CRM.
>> Best,
>> Chr-Emil
>> ------------------------------
>> *Fra:* George Bruseker <[email protected]>
>> *Sendt:* tirsdag 9. september 2025 08:16
>> *Til:* crm-sig <[email protected]>
>> *Kopi:* Christian-Emil Smith Ore <[email protected]>; Øyvind Eide <
>> [email protected]>; Eleni Tsouloucha <[email protected]>
>> *Emne:* Re: Issue 687 HW
>>
>> Dear Eleni,
>>
>> Thank you for the reminder. I have followed up this issue,
>> connnecting with Nicholas Crofts to ask about some of the work that has
>> been done previously on this. He was also able to share an earlier document
>> worked on by himself, Martin and others in creating the original diagrams.
>>
>> My understanding to date, evolving, is that the original purpose of the
>> diagrams that are now under the 'use and learn; section was actually to
>> make a solid connection to museum practice and the existing information
>> standards of ICOM Documentation (nee CIDOC).
>>
>> This is the standard in 1995:
>>
>>
>> https://cidoc.mini.icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2020/03/guidelines1995.pdf
>>
>> And at some point it even gets broken down into suggested fields, which
>> we find in the document on the link you share here:
>>
>> CIDOC reference model Information Groups (1997
>> <https://cidoc-crm.org/Resources/cidoc-reference-model-information-groups>
>> )
>>
>> But as a generation of learners of CIDOC CRM can attest, I believe, the
>> diagrams have since evolved to also play an important role in learning
>> about the ontology itself. So it seems like they are now called upon to do
>> a dual function. As we have been working to update them we have been
>> updating them more towards making them towards the standard as it is, but
>> haven't been focussed on connecting back to the original CIDOC information
>> groups etc.
>>
>> I think this poses a question, which I think the group needs to consider
>> and answer together.
>>
>> The diagrams we are working on now, are they for
>>
>> a) explaining and learning the CRM,
>> b) connecting the CRM to the CIDOC Information Categories
>> or
>> c) both.
>>
>> My opinion is that they are uncomfortably for both right now.
>>
>> I wonder if we shouldn't create a set of diagrams which are just for
>> learning the ontology (maybe these are fewer and more targeted) and we
>> separate this function from the CIDOC information categories question.
>>
>> For the b functionality, representing CIDOC information categories, I
>> think we should connect with ICOM Documentation and find out if this would
>> be a priority and an interest. We could try to make this a collaboration
>> with other committees and museums. In effect this is just a semantic
>> modelling exercise of fields, at which we are very good now and for which
>> many tools exist to create the data. The meaningful thing here though might
>> be to really connect up with active documentation work, so that ICOM
>> Documentation can illustrate the categories in action and those categories
>> are correctly linked up to the best present state of CIDOC CRM ontology and
>> semantic modelling practice.
>>
>> This is what I have to report. I think it's quite interesting and worth a
>> discussion at the next SIG and also of course here on the list.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> George
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM Eleni Tsouloucha <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>> in the last SIG meeting you volunteered to look at the original CIDOC
>> reference model Information Groups (1997)
>> <https://cidoc-crm.org/Resources/cidoc-reference-model-information-groups>
>> for issue 687
>> <https://cidoc-crm.org/Issue/ID-687-review-the-textual-descriptions-to-diagrams-in-the-functional-overview>,
>> to determine whether the diagrams in the Use and Learn section were
>> intended as part of the original standard or if they were meant as
>> examples, and on the basis of the diagrams therein to establish if we need
>> to add/change in the diagrams of the Use and Learn.
>>
>> Is this something you are willing to do ahead of the October meeting?
>> Please let me know.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>> --
>> Eleni Tsouloucha
>> Philologist - MA Linguistics & Language Technologies
>> Center for Cultural Informatics
>> Information Systems Laboratory - Institute of Computer Science
>> Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
>>
>> Address: N. Plastira 100, GR-70013 Heraklion, Grece
>> email: [email protected], [email protected]
>> Tel: +30 2810391488
>>
>>
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