CRMEX 2013 - Practical Experiences with CIDOC CRM and its Extensions (CRMEX)

The CIDOC CRM (international standard ISO 21127:2006) is a conceptual model and ontology with a fundamental role in many data integration efforts in the Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage (CH) domain. It has spawned various CRM-compliant extensions, such as:
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBRoo) for works and bibliographic data
CRM Digitization (CRMdig) for digitization and provenance
CRM for English Heritage (CRMEH) for archaeology
British Museum Ontology (BMO) for museum objects
Sharing Ancient Wisdoms (SAWS) for medieval gnomologia (collections of wise sayings)
PRESSoo, a FRBRoo extension for serial publications
A number of data models, while not CRM-compliant, have been influenced by the CRM, e.g. the Europeana Data Model - EDM. At the same time, some people claim that the examples of practical working systems using CRM are few and far between. There are various difficulties facing wider CRM adoption and interoperation:
Because CRM allows many different ways of representing the same situation, CRM adopters in various CH areas need mapping guidelines and best practices to increase the chance of interoperation
While RDF is the most viable CRM representation, there are various low-level RDF issues that are not standardized. Since RDF representation implies a certain implementation bias and still undergoes changes of good practice, CRM-SIG has been expecting good practices to emerge from people applying CRM in order to make recommendations
The goal of this workshop is to describe and showcase systems using CRM at their core, exchange experience about the practical use of CRM, describe difficulties for the practical application of CRM, and share approaches for overcoming such difficulties.
The ultimate objective of this workshop is to encourage the wider practical adoption of CRM.
The workshop addresses important topics and is quite relevant to the topics of TPDL, given the following:
Libraries are opening more and more towards Linked Open Data and semantic technologies
Library holdings are often considered one part of CH, to be combined and complemented with data from other CH institutions (consider Europeana and similar national aggregation efforts). CRM is a foundational ontology that can provide a unifying ground for all CH domains
FRBRoo is a popular CRM extension with direct application in the library domain
Topics
The workshop invites papers that cover, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Software systems and similar developments using CRM
CRM repositories that aggregate large amounts of CRM RDF data
CRM-compliant extension ontologies and domain specializations. Principles for extending CRM
Best practices for representing specific situations from specific CH domains in CRM
Best practices, guidelines and detailed mappings from various metadata formats and various CH domains to CRM
Joint use of CRM and other popular ontologies. Principles for selecting constructs from different ontologies.
Querying, searching and faceted browsing of CRM repositories
Display, editing, annotation and cross-linking of CRM data
Reasoning with CRM data
Encountered mistakes in representing CRM data. CRM learning curve and didactic considerations
Shortcomings of CRM, recommendations for CRM evolution. Collaboration on CRM evolution, merging RDF standardization approaches, recommendations for collaborative approaches
Performance and volumetric information about CRM-based systems
Evaluations of CRM adoption, usability of CRM-based systems, usage of specific CRM constructs