Dear All,
From the beginning of the CRM development, we followed a clear
distinction between "core model" and "application model", as has been,
in similar form, be proposed by other authors as well.
The basic idea is that the wealth of phenomena , even for the domain of
factual information of the historical sciencesto cannot be be
modeledproactively, and will, in general, not be consistent. However,
high-level "superproperties" can effectively "streamline"
specializations under a common core, that enables to a high degree
recall, i.e. query containment for questions across multiple resources
that can return reasonably small result sets of most relevant facts
available for the respective research. The latter may then be processed
locally for further refinement, deductions and evaluations.
The managerial idea was that CRMbase and extensions managed by the SIG
form such a core, which is continuously verified by mapping of relevent
applications for its genericity and efficiency for global querying.
Any specific application that goes beyond a global aggregation of data
should develop local application models. Only when enough experience
with these application models has been collected, it should feed back
into the models managed by the SIG for modification or enhancement. This
experience building aims at maintaining the long-term robustness and
effectiveness of all constructs in the core. Nevertheless, the aim to
keep all SIG-managed extensions consistent and harmonized, poses an
ultimate limit to the size these constructs can develop into.
To my understanding, a lot of friction in the past years has been
created by a lack of common understanding of the difference between
these levels. My recommendations to develop certain constructs locally
have sometimes been misinterpreted as rejections or lack of interest.
Therefore, I propose to
"define difference between core models and application models, clarify
the way they interface technically and epistemologically, and define the
managerial procedures associated with the relationship between them".
This should also be a didactic goal.
Best,
Martin.
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Dr. Martin Doerr
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Center for Cultural Informatics
Information Systems Laboratory
Institute of Computer Science
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