Hi George

Thanks for this.

The document that was homework for Martin and I on the new framework has
been delayed (although nearly complete) and is now not on the agenda for
the next meeting.

I think there are different ways to approach the administration of this and
it would be good to talk about this as a group. But I think that people
need to see the final draft proposal first, which I hope will be available
soon.

Cheers,

Dominic












On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 09:41, George Bruseker via Crm-sig <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> In the run up to the CRM SIG meeting later this month, I am passing on
> this HW.
>
> This HW is basically to align the decisions to proceed with the proposal
> on listing compatible ontologies on the website and coming up with a
> practical proposal on how to integrate this into the information on the
> website. Here is the proposal:
>
> Following the decision of the SIG, we will list compatible ontologies,
> clearly marked as NOT made by the SIG and NOT harmonized ontologies but
> useful compatible efforts. For the reasons and rationales etc. consult the
> history of the issue.
>
> What needs doing is to decide how and where to list this info on the
> website in order to be clear what these are and what they are not.
>
> Therefore, I propose we should have a 'harmonized ontologies' and
> 'compatible ontologies' section.
>
> The existing 'compatible models' section which has the official CRM
> harmonized ontologies listed would be renamed to Harmonized Ontologies.
> Other than that, no change to this section.
>
> The new section would have the name 'Compatible Ontologies'. There  we
> need at least two pages. The first page explains what a compatible ontology
> is. The second one has the list of compatible ontologies.
>
> For the first page, with the explanation of what compatible ontologies are
> and how to become one, we already have the text we produced so we can just
> use that as the website text.
>
> For the second page, regarding displaying the compatible ontologies I
> would suggest that we have a standard list view / item view approach. So we
> would have a list view that would show in a table all compatible ontologies
> and their top level information. And then when you click on a particular
> ontology, you go to an item view. The item view will display the rest of
> the metadata for that entry. Please note that this differs significantly
> from the 'harmonized ontologies section. When you click on the compatible
> ontology you do not go to a new website maintained by the SIG. You just go
> to an item view with more metadata and links to the ontology providers
> pages. We don't want or need to maintain a whole website for them, these
> are not our ontologies just a reference list of compatible ontologies. When
> you click on the item view you would see the rest of the information we
> have stored about this ontology.
>
> With regards to which of the main menus this goes in, I think this needs
> to be aligned with the overall website organization homework.
>
> This is the metadata document that we already agreed:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1etOTY9bKIT4IQRJg5csQ1_ho6Rk53djwDVFYu7bPftw/edit?gid=1752254642#gid=1752254642
>
> On the second tab, I transposed that into a table view. I marked things in
> yellow which might be nice to display in the list view (to see at a glance)
> and in orange what would be additional info that probably is better to see
> in the item view.
>
> Also as I work on other homework, I am wondering if we should enter a
> registration date for the information and set an automatic checkin of some
> number of years to see if the info is still valid. This comes to me from
> looking at other data on the site which is very out of date, which is hard
> to get on top of.
>
> There is a subissue to this issue of how to handled ontologies that are no
> longer maintained.
>
> Quoth Eleni
>
> "I'm alright with what you're proposing. I'm only unclear with how to
> treat PRESSoo and CRMba. They are by default harmonized with 5.0.4, but
> they are no longer harmonized. We said we would link harmonized models to
> the CIDOC and model versions. But I don't know what this means in terms of
> listing them."
>
> Quoth Pavlos
>
> "I think the proposal is good. Imo, it is important NOT to confuse the
> categories (ontologies maintained by us vs. ontologies maintained by
> others).
>
> Regarding PRESSoo and CRMba: they both have stable versions aligned with
> some stable version of the base model. So, I would consider them harmonized
> even if there is no WG working on them. No?"
>
> I think we could keep discussing this in person at the next SIG?
>
> Maybe it needs its own issue or a particular decision from the involved
> parties.
>
> Best,
>
> George
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM Eleni Tsouloucha <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> here's a reminder for issue 682
>> <https://cidoc-crm.org/Issue/ID-682-list-externally-maintained-crm-compatible-extensions-on-new-section-of-crm-site>.
>> For the moment, there is not a lot of wordsmithing involved, the proposal
>> was accepted, but what it requires is a proposal on how to share this info
>> on the site, and how to incorporate it in the new release of the site. So
>> it ties in with issue 697
>> <https://cidoc-crm.org/Issue/ID-697-cidoc-crm-website-reorganized>.
>>
>> Do you want to go over it at some point this week?
>> Best,
>>
>> --
>> Eleni Tsouloucha
>> Philologist - MA Linguistics & Language Technologies
>> Center for Cultural Informatics
>> Information Systems Laboratory - Institute of Computer Science
>> Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)
>>
>> Address: N. Plastira 100, GR-70013 Heraklion, Grece
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>> Tel: +30 2810391488
>>
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