Dear All,
Since the conception of the CIDOC CRM, FORTH as an institution is
supporting the maintenance of the CIDOC CRM actively by providing
labour, IT infrastructure and travel budgets, as a considerable
voluntary offer to ICOM-CIDOC. Technically responsible for supporting
the CIDOC CRM within FORTH is the staff of the Center for Cultural
Informatics, an activity of FORTH's Institute of Computer Science.
The Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH) is a public,
non-profit research institution of private law of Greece, and one of its
largest research institutions. FORTH reports to the General Secretariat
for Research and Innovation of the Ministry of Development.
The main income of FORTH constitute competitive international, national
and private research grants. The support for the maintenance of the
CIDOC CRM by FORTH has typically been financed by research grants
managed by the Center for Cultural Informatics that support and allow
for justifying such expenses. In 2023, the Board of Directors of FORTH
decided to support the maintenance of the CIDOC CRM in addition as
general FORTH internal project for at least another two years to
safeguard the activity against possible financial shortcomings with the
current practice.
As chair of CRM-SIG, I therefore suggested in 2023 the SIG to consider
models by which other organizations and enterprises, which benefit
economically from the CRM, may also contribute with some resources to
the maintenance of the CIDOC CRM, in their own interest in the longevity
of the standard and as a sort of moral obligation, receiving however no
practical proposals so far. This should not have been interpreted as an
intention by FORTH to discontinue its support.
I am glad to announce that the Board of Directors of FORTH has recently
confirmed its generous continued interest and ability of FORTH in the
maintenance of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference model in long terms.
Financially, this is currently secured for at least another five years.
In addition, there is permanent staff of the Center for Cultural
Informatics that engages in the maintenance of the CIDOC CRM explicitly
as part of their job description.
Looking forward to many more years of fruitful and pleasant
collaboration between FORTH and CIDOC,
Martin Doerr
chair, CRM-SIG
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Dr. Martin Doerr
Honorary Head of the
Center for Cultural Informatics
Information Systems Laboratory
Institute of Computer Science
Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
N.Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton,
GR70013 Heraklion,Crete,Greece
Email: mar...@ics.forth.gr
Web-site: http://www.ics.forth.gr/isl
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