Hello CIDOC CRM SIG Members, My name is Jim Salmons and my inter-related Citizen Science/History projects are @FactMiners (www.FactMiners.org <http://www.FactMiners.org> ) and @SoftalkApple (www.SoftalkApple.com <http://www.SoftalkApple.com> ).
We are working on two inter-related applied research initiatives; #cidocCRMgraph and #cidocCRMdev, as briefly introduced here: http://goo.gl/XZKkCE. For links to related #cidocCRM posts expressing our interests/insights, please see: http://goo.gl/dpbhPs. BACKGROUND INFO For our most complete "manifesto" of applied research interests, please see: https://goo.gl/3Vb0lO contributed and accepted into the CODE|WORDS series, and this GraphGist Edition of my #MCN2014 presentation: http://goo.gl/gS2FJk (especially the 2nd half of the embedded video which introduces, but does not dive too deeply into, our FactMiners #cidocCRM focus). And for some context and link to an unfolding #cidocCRM-related conversation at Schema.org in which I am trying to inject a metamodel-driven design POV, please see: http://goo.gl/x1DSAB. (Also, I am fortunate to have, and personally thank, the members of my #cidocCRM/#TEI Personal Learning Network who are helping me to fast-track my knowledge about the #cidocCRM and #TEI: https://goo.gl/skvhaj.) CRM SIG MTG - NEW WEBSITE ITEM INTEREST & RECOMMENDATION FOR TEI P5 FORMAT FOR DEFINITION DOCUMENT As to the upcoming CRM SIG meeting agenda item for next Friday morning to discuss a new cidoc-crm.org website, please note that @FactMiners has a long-standing public "hand raised" to either lead or contribute to this much-needed community project. If this is an open issue and the project's nature and goals are to be determined through next Friday's discussion, I would recommend that the new website be built HAND-IN-HAND with adopting TEI P5 as the semantic "format of record" for the CIDOC CRM Definition document. (MS-Word and PDF just won't cut it moving forward when both humans and our software agents need equal access to this foundation document.) While there are those who prefer/need an RDF encoding, there will be a growing group of folks like @FactMiners who will be best served by a human- and machine-readable edition of the Definition document "as is" without a complicated graph transformation applied (that can only further obfuscate existing graph-interpretation issues of the current state of the model). A TEI P5 encoding of the Definition document would not just be useful in its own right, but it could figure into an efficient workflow for the SIG in the future whereby the official public-facing website would be generated from (and updated by) releases of the official #TEI Definition document. If the SIG would prefer not to select a particular lead or other sanctioned "official project" of the SIG, I would ask that you simply consider taking the existing cidoc-crm.org website and put it into a public GitHub repository so volunteer community members could fork it in response to a "CIDOC-CRM.org Website Make-over Challenge" with friendly competition encouraged by general public as well as a category for student/class projects. There are a number of other active issues/ideas I would like to contribute to the current SIG conversations that will surely take place next week, but I don't want to dilute my message about @FactMiners interest in contributing to the new website. RECOMMENDATION FOR PREFERRED SOCIAL MEDIA HASHTAG - #cidocCRM However, I will slip this recommendation into this self-introduction note to suggest that the SIG consider officially endorsing/recommending the use of #cidocCRM as the preferred hashtag for CIDOC CRM social media communication. My experience is that anything with any variation of tag that has a plain CRM or hyphenated #CIDOC-CRM etc., will attract the "900-pound gorilla" of Customer Relationship Management folks that subvert conversations or spike your followers with inappropriate bots or well-meaning lurkers. My choice of #cidocCRM is that the CIDOC aspect should not be the "shouty" part and that it serves as the "category discriminator" that will help keep our interests separate from "those other" CRM folks. POSSIBLE SIG MEMBERSHIP? Finally, given my intense interest in the #cidocCRM and not knowing how ICOM and/or CIDOC SIGs work, I am unsure whether I would be a prospective group member in that I am an unaffiliated, independent Citizen Scientist and on a limited fixed "retirement" budget. Thank you for your interest and reading this notably long initial letter of introduction. Happy-Healthy Vibes, -: Jim :- Jim Salmons Twitter: @Jim_Salmons www.FactMiners.org <http://www.FactMiners.org> www.SoftalkApple.com <http://www.SoftalkApple.com>
