CRM Agios Pavlos meeting
Report

Edited by: Nick Crofts
Date : July 25, 2000

As part of the correlation test bed project, and in support of the ISO evaluation process, ICS-FORTH hosted an informal meeting with some selected stakeholders in the CRM. The purpose of this meeting was to identify the role and purpose of the CRM with respect to stakeholders’ needs, to compare the current CRM version with stake-holders’ requirements, to formulate a draft proposal for any extensions which might prove necessary and to examine technical issues and requirements. 

The meeting, held at Agios Pavlos from June 26 – 30 2000 on the island of Crete was attended by representatives of the CIMI Consortium, the Research Libraries Group (RLG), mda, the Germanisches National Museum, the Benaki Museum, ICS FORTH, the CIDOC Archaeological Sites working group and the CIDOC Documentation Standards working group. 

The model was presented to the group and compared with a number of existing standards and guidelines as well as with stakeholders’ requirements. A number of formal mappings were examined, in particular the Dublin Core (DC) and mda’s SPECTRUM. Additionally, a detailed comparison was made with the CIDOC Archaeological Core Data Standard (CDS).

This work resulted in a proposal for extensions to the model, referred to hereafter as the "Agios Pavlos extensions". These extensions : 

1.	enable complete transfer of the semantic contents of records based on the DC metadata element set, and all current qualifiers, to an equivalent CRM representation.

2.	Render possible a complete mapping of the CIMI Access Points and  z39.50 Profile to the CRM.

3.	Enable the mda Spectrum mapping to be completed for almost all the units of information which fall within the scope of the CRM.

4.	Render possible a virtually complete mapping of the CDS.

It was agreed that complete mappings of the CDS, Spectrum, the CIMI Access Points and Profile will be achieved by a future extension.

The process of elaborating the Agios Pavlos extensions effectively confirmed the validity of the methodology and reinforced the participant’s confidence in the potential of the CRM. 

The group also discussed formal criteria for evaluation of CRM compliance.

Detailed results of the meeting will be presented at the CIDOC conference in Ottawa.

Present at the meeting:
"Nicholas Crofts" <nicholas.crofts@ville-ge.ch>, 
"Ifigenia Dionissiadu" <ifi@benaki.gr>, 
"Martin Doerr" <martin@csi.forth.gr>, 
"Tony Gill" <tony_gill@notes.rlg.org>, 
"Siegfried Krause" <s.krause@gnm.de>, 
"Angela Spinazze" <ats@atspin.com>, 
"Steve Stead" <steads@compuserve.com>, 
"Matthew Stiff" <matthew.stiff@leander.demon.co.uk>

Nick Crofts

Rιunion CRM ΰ Agio Pavlos

Dans le cadre du projet de corrιlation, et ΰ l'appui du processus d'ιvaluation d'ISO, ICS-FORTH a accueilli une rιunion informelle avec quelques « partisans » du CRM. Le but de cette rιunion ιtait d'identifier le rτle et le but du CRM en ce qui concerne les besoins des utilisateurs, de comparer la version actuelle du CRM avec leurs besoins, de formuler des propositions pour d’ιventuelles extensions et d’examiner les questions techniques.