Dear Dominic,

Thanks for this. As I was working on preparing this issue, I reread the
minutes and the issue documentation since I had been assigned the
coordination of the various HWs. I didn't find any assignments for you or
Martin listed there (
https://cidoc-crm.org/Issue/ID-682-list-externally-maintained-crm-compatible-extensions-on-new-section-of-crm-site)
or I definitely would have reached out to ask about it.

Nevertheless, good to hear you have been working on something.

Since the text and approach were already agreed by a vote at the SIG, I
guess you are doing the mentioned 'tweaking' of the criteria doc?

Would you like to share what you have in a google doc or equivalent with
everyone else and we can deal with it with the rest of the issue next week?

I will try to attach a word doc that has the agreed text voted on by the
SIG as a recall for everyone.

Best,

George






> Hi George
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> Thanks for this.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
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> Dominic
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> 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
>>> email: [email protected], [email protected]
>>> Tel: +30 2810391488
>>>
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