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enCongratulations CIDOC-CRM SIG and the Year Ahead for #cidocCRM Development
http://www.factminers.org/content/congratulations-cidoc-crm-sig-and-year-ahead-cidoccrm-development
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/factminers_yr4cidocCRM_hastags.png?itok=6RzCfVPK"><a href="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/images/factminers_yr4cidocCRM_hastags.png"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-large" src="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/factminers_yr4cidocCRM_hastags.png?itok=6RzCfVPK" width="480" height="306" alt="" /></a></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/news" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">News</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/cidoccrm" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">#cidocCRM</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/museum-informatics" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Museum Informatics</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/metamodeling" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Metamodeling</a></li><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/neo4j" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Neo4j</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/graph-database" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Graph database</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>FactMiners joins the Library, Archive, and Museum (LAM) tech community in congratulating the members of the <strong><a href="http://www.cidoc-crm.org/special_interest_members.html">CIDOC-CRM Special Interest Group</a></strong> for its kick-off to 2015 with release of <a href="http://www.cidoc-crm.org/official_release_cidoc.html#CIDOCCRM6.0">Version 6.0 of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) <strong>Conceptual Reference Model</strong></a>. In addition to the major point update to the model's Reference Document, the CIDOC-CRM SIG also <a href="http://www.cidoc-crm.org/collaborations.html#CIDOC-SPECTRUM">announced a collaboration with the UK-based <strong>Collections Trust</strong></a> to create a CIDOC-CRM extension for the Trust's widely-used and highly-regarded <a href="http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/spectrum"><strong>SPECTRUM</strong> standard for museums' <em>collections management systems</em></a>.</p>
<div class="image-left"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/collectionstrust_spectrum.png" width="500" height="375" alt="collectionstrust_spectrum.png" /></div>
<p>The CIDOC-CRM (tweeted/hashtagged here and elsewhere as <strong>#cidocCRM</strong>) serves as a <em>metamodel </em>providing definitions and a formal structure for describing the implicit and explicit concepts and relationships used in <strong>cultural heritage documentation</strong>. FactMiners is committed to <strong>#cidocCRM-driven design</strong> for our Open Source social game and exploratory personal and professional "serious fun" research platform.</p>
<p>"Early adopter use cases in the museum community are understandably focused on the descriptive, or ontological, aspects of the CIDOC-CRM. Designing and developing new software systems based on a rigorous metamodel is not the first thing you do with such a resource." said Jim Salmons, tech lead, researcher, and founder of FactMiners and <a href="http://www.SoftalkApple.com">The Softalk Apple Project</a>, "We are very encouraged by publication of the new edition of the Reference Document together with the SPECTRUM announcement. Given the mission and community of The Collections Trust, this is very good news for any museum techies and researchers interested in #cidocCRM-based development projects."</p>
<p>"For our part," Salmons continued, "FactMiners is announcing the launch of our <em>'Year of the #cidocCRM Full-Graph Deep Dive'.</em> We're asking Kindred Spirits interested in #cidocCRM-driven software design and development to tweet and tag their posts and communications with <strong>#cidocCRMdev</strong> and <strong>#cidocCRMgraph</strong>. These hashtags will help focus communication within the museum and broader LAM tech communities specific to these important emerging topics."</p>
<p>In addition to rallying interest in #cidocCRM-driven development within the museum informatics community, FactMiners will increase its outreach activity to engage the Neo4j and broader graph database communities in the exploration and development of a "full graph" implementation of the #cidocCRM. </p>
<p>FactMiners will also engage <a href="http://www.neo4j.com">Neo Technology</a>, the <a href="http://www.structr.org">Structr</a> folks, and vendors in the graph visualization community, like <a href="http://www.KeyLines.com">KeyLines</a>, to join us in making a contribution to the global cultural preservation movement by working together this year to create a new Neo4j/Structr-based replacement for the <a href="http://www.CIDOC-CRM.org">www.CIDOC-CRM.org</a> community website. This site is used as a central repository for the #cidocCRM model and its various information resources and news about this ISO standard metamodel. As new developers embrace the #cidocCRM, the community website will be increasingly important. An interactive Neo4j and Structr based site with "live document" visualizations and cross-referencing for the #cidocCRM metamodel will be an ideal way to showcase our web, app, and visualization technologies while making an important contribution to global cultural preservation.</p>
<p>"2015 looks to be the year that the CIDOC-CRM gets a real 'shakedown cruise' as a broader community of software designers and developers begin to explore and use this valuable resource within the cultural heritage community." Salmons said, "And FactMiners is happy to be a part of these exciting developments in the evolution of Internet and its use in the preservation and transmission of our cultural heritage. Keep up the great work CIDOC-CRM SIG! Full speed ahead #cidocCRMdev and #cidocCRMgraph!"</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:08:57 +0000Jim Salmons45 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/congratulations-cidoc-crm-sig-and-year-ahead-cidoccrm-development#commentsOur #MCN2014 Presentation Exploring Metamodel Subgraphs - GraphGist Edition
http://www.factminers.org/content/our-mcn2014-presentation-exploring-metamodel-subgraphs-graphgist-edition
<div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/metamodeling" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Metamodeling</a></li><li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/graph-database" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Graph database</a></li><li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/mcn2014" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">#MCN2014</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div class="image-right"><a href="http://gist.neo4j.org/?8bdcc380cbb240c7d17a"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/softalk_metamodel_steps_quick.gif" width="480" height="346" alt="softalk_metamodel_steps_quick.gif" /></a></div>
<p>We invite you to view the Neo4j-based <a href="http://gist.neo4j.org/?8bdcc380cbb240c7d17a"><strong>"GraphGist Edition"</strong> of our recent #MCN2014 presentation</a> about FactMiners and <a href="http://www.SoftalkApple.com">The Softalk Apple Project</a> at the <a href="http://mcn.edu/?page_id=162">annual conference of the Museum Computer Network</a>.</p>
<p>We again thank the <a href="http://www.mcn.edu">Museum Computer Network Association</a> and <a href="http://piction.com/">PICTION</a> for sponsoring our Emerging Professional scholarship that enabled Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky to attend the conference on behalf of our projects to learn, network with Kindred Spirits, and make our presentation to the museum technology community. The opportunity to attend this excellent conference was phenomenal and will be a source of enthusiasm and inspiration for our continued evolution of our grassroots Citizen Science/History projects.</p>
<!--break--><h2>What is the GraphGist Edition?</h2>
<div class="image-left"><a href="/sites/default/files/images/jim_timlynn_mcn2014.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/jim_timlynn_mcn2014.jpg" width="240" height="240" alt="jim_timlynn_mcn2014.jpg" /></a></div>
<p>In the Open Source developers' world and most notably in the GitHub.com community, a <a href="https://help.github.com/articles/about-gists/"><em>gist</em></a> is most usually written as a convenient document-based "how-to" or helpful short explanation about a useful snippet of programming code or a programming design or method that can be served in a "live example code" format. Folks interested in Python write Python-based gists, Ruby folks do Rudy-based gists, and so on. </p>
<p>In the Neo4j community, we have an incredible learning/sharing "live document" format called a <a href="http://gist.neo4j.org/"><strong>GraphGist</strong></a>. The Neo Technology documentation team developed this clever server-based technology and documentation format standard to facilitate exploring and sharing ideas and techniques using Neo Technology's Open Source <a href="http://neo4j.com/developer/graph-database/"><strong>Neo4j graph database</strong></a>.</p>
<div class="image-right"><a href="http://gist.neo4j.org/?8bdcc380cbb240c7d17a"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/factminers_mcn2014_graphgist.png" width="480" alt="factminers_mcn2014_graphgist.png" /></a></div>
<p>By writing to this standard and serving your GraphGist through the freely available gist.neo4j.org server, a writer can explore <a href="http://neo4j.com/developer/cypher/">Neo4j's <strong>Cypher</strong> query language</a> by showing and explaining queries that are then run server-side with the results being dynamically visualized in your browser view of the GraphGist. This document technology is obviously valuable for communicating to others in teaching and explanatory contexts. But GraphGists are also useful as an incredible self-learning and project-design documenting resource.</p>
<p>My <strong>#MCN2014 presentation</strong> includes a section that summarizes the core ideas of the <strong>metamodel subgraph design pattern</strong>. The <a href="http://gist.neo4j.org/?8bdcc380cbb240c7d17a"><em>"Where Facts Live" - Exploring the Metamodel Subgraph of a FactMiners Fact Cloud: GraphGist Edition</em></a> provides a "live document" version of the four Cypher queries that I used to build the basic structure of a metamodel subgraph of Softalk magazine during my #MCN2014 presentation.</p>
<p>For those who may be interested in additional details and a "Hello, World" scale introduction to how a metamodel subgraph can be used for computational analytics as part of an Open Culture cognitive computing platform, see this <a href="/content/neo4j-graphgist-design-docs-line">two-part GraphGist on the metamodel subgraph pattern</a> and this <a href="/content/inside-factminers-brain-rainman-meet-sherlock">"Rainman/Sherlock" piece exploring the cognitive computing aspects of our project's mission</a>.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:14:48 +0000Jim Salmons44 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/our-mcn2014-presentation-exploring-metamodel-subgraphs-graphgist-edition#commentsAbout Graph Databases and FactMining
http://www.factminers.org/content/about-graph-databases-and-factmining
<div class="field field-name-field-image field-type-image field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><figure class="clearfix field-item even" rel="og:image rdfs:seeAlso" resource="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/Softalk_collage_4_factcloud.png?itok=RZJYDYWm"><a href="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/images/Softalk_collage_4_factcloud.png"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="image-style-large" src="http://www.factminers.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/images/Softalk_collage_4_factcloud.png?itok=RZJYDYWm" width="451" height="480" alt="" /></a></figure></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-tags field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><ul class="field-items"><li class="field-item even" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/design" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Design</a></li><li class="field-item odd" rel="dc:subject"><a href="/tags/graph-database" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">Graph database</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-rss view-mode-rss"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The Softalk magazines are brimming with "facts" about the Microcomputer Revolution. This overview will tell you a bit about how we will use <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database">graph database technology</a> to unlock this incredible resource within our 9,100-page treasure trove.</p>
<p>The core data modeling constructs of a graph database are "nodes" and "relationships." I could tell you more, but <a href="http://www.neo4j.org/learn/graphdatabase">this short four-slide explanation on the Neo4j website nails it</a>. (Neo4j is the Open Source graph database from Neo Technology that we will be using for this project and for the Fact Miners social game app platform.)</p>
<div class="image-left"><a href="http://www.neo4j.org/learn/graphdatabase"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/what_is_graph_db_neo4j.png" width="420" height="296" alt="what is a graph database at Neo4j.org" /></a></div>
<p>The graph database's <strong>[NODE] => [RELATIONSHIP] => [NODE]</strong> construct can be used to create a flexible "grammar" that both organizes known information AND provides the flexibility to organically evolve your information model as new information is discovered and we expand our understanding of interrelationships within our data. In short, a graph database is ideal for creating The <strong>Softalk Apple Project "Fact Cloud" Companion</strong>. </p>
<p>Let's take a look at one simple example: <em>"Choplifter is the #1 bestseller on the Top Thirty list in the October 1982 issue of Softalk."</em></p>
<p>We start with this elementary structure:</p>
<div class="image-solo"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/FactCloud_1.png" width="456" height="84" alt="An elementary graph DB 'fact' - [Node] => [Relationship] => [Node]" /></div>
<p>With this simple construct, we can express "facts" (elementary assertions) such as:</p>
<ul><li>["Joe"] => ["Likes"] => ["Jane"]</li>
<li>["The sky"] => ["Is_color"] => ["blue"]</li>
<li>["Acme Inc."] => ["Makes"] => ["Widgets"]</li>
</ul><p>Simple, powerful... but you can see where things would get gnarly quickly if everything had to be expressed, stored, and retrieved at such a fine-grained level. So, beyond this core construct, a graph database (like Neo4j) can allow <strong>labels </strong>and <strong>property lists</strong> to be attached to Nodes and Relationships providing additional "flavors" of expression within our data model:</p>
<div class="image-solo"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/FactCloud_2.png" width="456" height="112" alt="FactCloud_2.png" /></div>
<p>These label and property-list "decorations" dramatically enhance the range of what can be expressed in the information model of a graph database – a "fast bike" rather than a "bike" which can itself be labeled as a type of "vehicle." Before we quickly get beyond the "wee bit" focus of this page, let's look at how we can use this notation to "gather the facts" that we know from this one line in the Top Thirty list in the October 1982 issue...</p>
<div class="image-solo"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/FactCloud_3.png" width="456" height="474" alt="FactCloud_3.png" /></div>
<p>If we put these elementary "facts" together in a connected graph, you see the start of a "Fact Cloud"...</p>
<div class="image-solo"><img src="/sites/default/files/images/FactCloud_4.png" width="456" height="199" alt="FactCloud_4.png" /></div>
<p>Now imagine a voracious social game-playing community of "Fact Miners" descending on The Softalk Apple Archive. Imagine how many "facts" this crowdsource resource could find on a single page of the magazine. Extrapolate that out to a full issue, then imagine if all 9,100+ pages of the 48 issues of Softalk were mined for their embedded facts. Imagine what an unprecedented education and research resource could be created by a bunch of folks having some "serious fun."</p>
<p>This is our vision for the <strong>Softalk Apple Archive "Fact Cloud Companion"</strong> that we will create through this project and its "spawn" of the <a href="http://www.FactMiners.com">www.FactMiners.com</a> social-game community and the <a href="http://www.FactMiners.org">www.FactMiners.org</a> developer community.</p>
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</div></div></div>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 16:42:13 +0000Jim Salmons14 at http://www.factminers.orghttp://www.factminers.org/content/about-graph-databases-and-factmining#comments
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