The Semantic Web and Museum Data

CIDOC CRM and the Semantic Web

Chapter: Washington DC

Date: October 25, 2009

Location:

National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution
4th & Independence Ave SW 
Washington, DC 20013
USA

URL: https://www.meetup.com/semweb-31/events/11635954/

Host: Smithsonian Institution Organizer: KONA Marco Neumann RSVP Register Date October 25, 2009 Time 9.00am-5.00pm

Overview (Conference participants MUST use the Staff/Group entrance at the corner of Maryland Ave) -- NOTE that Public Entrance is actually on 3rd St and Maryland Ave SW but does not open until 10 AM. Our primary objective with this workshop is to encourage and prepare more cultural institutions to publish data on the Semantic Web. The CIDOC CRM is a rich and mature ontology for representing cultural heritage expert knowledge and data on the Semantic Web. The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM) is a formal ontology intended to facilitate the integration, mediation and interchange of heterogeneous cultural heritage information. The CRM is the result of more than a decade of standards development work by the International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Work on the CRM itself began in 1996 under the auspices of the ICOM-CIDOC Documentation Standards Working Group. Since 2000, development of the CRM has been officially delegated by ICOM-CIDOC to the CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group, which collaborates with the ISO working group ISO/TC46/SC4/WG9 to bring the CRM to the form and status of an International Standard. We start the workshop in the morning with lightning talks to present the rich facets and specializations in the cultural heritage data management domain and in the afternoon proceed into the CIDOC CRM tutorial. Martin Doerr, Chair of the CIDOC CRM, will personally lead the tutorial and present the foundations and features of the CIDOC CRM. Schedule 9.00 Registration Morning Lightning Talks 9.30 Welcome - Marco Neumann Introduction to the Semantic Web and the CIDOC CRM Keynote: Applying Ontologies to Cultural Heritage Data Managment Christine Connors, TriviumRLG Stories from practitioners and use cases Exposing the Library of Congress Subject Headings as Semantic Web data in SKOS Ed Summers, Library of Congress Future of the Past: Using CIDOC CRM for CLAROS (Classical Arts Research Online Services) David Shotton, University of Oxford Ralph Hodgson - Envisioning Semantic Web Technology Solutions for the Arts Brian Eubanks - Proving Great-Grandpa: Genealogy, Reification and the Semantic Web Afternoon Tutorial Keynote: The CIDOC CRM - a Key to Digital Scholarly Knowledge Martin Doerr, Chair CIDOC CRM SIG CRM and the Semantic Web: Using RDF/OWL to represent the CIDOC CRM - Marco Neumann The CIDOC CRM or How to make your documentation fit for integration with the Semantic Web - Martin Doerr overview examples exercise Goal: Make your system CRM export compatible Goal: Minimal requirements for global integration of cultural data Compatibility Q&A The workshop will take place from 9-5pm on Sunday, October 25, 2009. For interested participants there will be an optional dinner in the evening.

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