Dear all, You will have noticed on the agenda for the upcoming CRM SIG recently sent by Eleni Tsoulouha that a day has been set aside for a discussion centering around didactic and training material related to the understanding and use of CIDOC CRM.
The dedication of a day to this topic was proposed given a number of factors: 1. the overall topic relates regardless to several on-going issues that are under discussion at the SIG 2. the on-going ISO acceptance process for CRM base version 7.2x gives us a chance to focus on development of material aside from the CRMbase specification itself 3. this year's CIDOC conference and next will have a strong CIDOC CRM component and there is a keen interest in training and knowledge of how to use the CRM 4. The material most clearly available to a potential learner / user of CRM on the website, requires an update and enrichment with much material that has been generated in the meantime ( https://www.cidoc-crm.org/use_and_learn) Therefore, it seemed an opportune moment to open up a general discussion as to the training material for learning and applying CRM (what should this be, who should it be aimed at, what is its scope, what resources exist already, what resources would it be good to develop) and then also to dive into some detail about the potential categories of didactic / training material and how we can populate them with extant material or plan to generate new material. With this in mind, the following draft document was drawn up by myself: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12tk5Gi6nAAYDQBJmOcVQvBJGaP4LqFSlGkYX_3RfbXE/edit as a starting point for this discussion. This document is in no way to be considered complete or final but rather a sketch to prompt a fruitful discussion. The proposal for the day is to start with a general discussion of what we mean by and need for training material, starting from the document above. This is a draft in order to spur conversation which we would hope to be wide ranging and open. The first session of the day will open this discussion and investigate what are the proper categories and terms for the different elements of CRM learning. SIG members with other / better / different ideas are very welcome even to propose a completely different approach. The other sessions of the day will pull as general organizing cue from the proposal above in order to structure more specific conversations about different topics. We wanted to send this document out sufficiently in advance so that those interested in this topic are able to consider it and gather their own ideas and proposals in turn. Also since there are many topics with different details to invite those who specifically want to speak on a topic, training around a particular method or software for example, to be able to propose this as a component of the conversation. This will hopefully be the start of an on-going and fruitful effort to update and enrich the offer of didactic and training materials on the CRM site with an impact of making it easier and more coherent for potential users of CRM to appropriate the necessary knowledge to use it to their particular purposes. Looking forward to the dialogue. Sincerely, George Bruseker
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