East meets West:

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• East meets West
• Influence, Interchange and Interoperability

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Professor Ikhan Kim  Myongji University

• Coordinator CIDOC 2004

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CIDOC Aims

• To facilitate communication between national and
  international bodies
• To assist countries at an early stage in
  developing knowledge systems
• To facilitate research where this has an
  international dimension
• To disseminate the results of our work to a wide
  audience

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CIDOC Functions

• Tutorial and Training
• Doing through Working Groups
• Presentation and Publication Forum
• These functions are complementary and partially
  overlap

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CIDOC Objectives

• Act as a networking forum for CIDOC members
• Working Groups to continue to produce their
  products
• Publication Forum
• Publish Case Studies/Guides to Best Practice
• Authority offering opinions on Standards
• Act as a peer review mechanism

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WORKING GROUPS
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Current Working Groups

• Archaeological Sites Working Group
• Conceptual Reference Model Special Interest Group
  
• Digital Preservation Working Group
• Documentation Standards Working Group
• Information Centres Working Group
• ISO liaison
• Multimedia Working Group
• Services Working Group

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Archaeology Sites Working Group

• 2nd Edition of the Core Data Standard
• The Period Terminology Repository Specification
• Deposition of site archives with museums

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CRM SIG

• CRM (ISO/CD 21127)
• New series of meetings with IFLA about
  FRBR/FRANAR
• CRM Tutorial tomorrow
• CRM Topics
• CRM Dissemination and Implementation Support
• Mapping methodology and technology
• FRBR-CRM
• CRM-TEI
• Meta-CRM (making the E55 Types concrete)
• Formalizing deductions in the CRM
• Linking CRM to other top-level ontologies
• "The CRM life-cycle" - a model of cultural
  information economy
• A methodology of creating domain-specific
  ontological extensions. (CfA etc.)
• Dedicated Matching Language for the CRM
• Dissemination - foster national centers of
  competence, training centers (EH,GNM,FORTH.....?)
• Training material-FAQs - Wiki
• The CRM Monograph

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Digital Preservation Working Group

• Position paper on what constitutes Digital
  Heritage
• Museums criteria for selection of digital
  artefacts for preservation
• Statement of Requirements for Museums
• How to test
• Questions to ask your museums IT function
• Annotated Literature Survey
• Statement of the role of the CRM in Digital
  Preservation

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Documentation Working Group

• political paper on value of documentation
• Practical procedural guidelines
• Regional approach? (c.f. Africom)
• TEI liaison

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Information Centres Working Group

• Directory of information centres
• Develop guidelines on how to establish visitor
  information centres in museums
• Training for staff involved in those centres
• React to the growing need for information on
  current inter-domain international research
  projects

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ISO Liaison

• ISO TC46 SC4
• SC4 Technical interoperability
• SC8 Quality Statistics and performance
  evaluation
• SC9 Identification and description
• SC11 Archives/Record management
• WG2 Coding of country names and related
  entities
• WG3 Conversion of written languages
• WG4 Terminology of information and
  documentation
• CRM work ISO CD 21127

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Multimedia Working Group

• Guide to Multimedia
• Continues to be updated
• Available on the CIDOC web site

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Services Working Group

• Support for publishing of all Working Groups
• Coordinate web site preparation
• Publish fundamentals
• Registration step by step when an object enters
  the museum (CIDOC Fact Sheet 1)
• Labelling and marking objects (CIDOC Fact Sheet
  2).

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Potential New Working Groups

• Thesauri Structure
• Scientific Questions
• Museum Directories/Collection Level Description
• Reference Architecture and Workflow
• FISH
• Natural History