Congratulations CIDOC-CRM SIG and the Year Ahead for #cidocCRM Development

FactMiners joins the Library, Archive, and Museum (LAM) tech community in congratulating the members of the CIDOC-CRM Special Interest Group for its kick-off to 2015 with release of Version 6.0 of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) Conceptual Reference Model.

Thoughts on a Graph Representation of the CIDOC-CRM: Property Declarations

I am having an interesting time looking at the CIDOC-CRM – the Conceptual Reference Model for museums developed by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). In particular, as generally described in my last post, I am looking at the CIDOC-CRM with a "pure graph" lens on a metamodel developed with an object-oriented perspective. In this post, I take a closer look at what "node-ifying" the CIDOC-CRM Property Declarations would look like and why this is a potentially powerful idea.

Wishlist: A Metamodel Partition in Neo4j Graph Database

There are many reasons I had to explore the embedded metamodel subgraph design pattern for Neo4j databases in the first series of FactMiners ecosystem design documents.

My interest is grounded in my experience in the 1990's developing a pair of complementary Distributed Smalltalk frameworks to do what we called "executable business models." The basic idea was that if we came up with a super-elegant metamodel about how to do business processes AND STUCK TO IT no matter what on the server/executing-model side of things then the Desktop Visualization framework could dynamically generate what customer/users mistook for "applications." We found INCREDIBLE leverage in design-to-implementation and stakeholder buy-in (as what we built made sense to them... it was their mental model embodied in software).

We can bring this kind of leverage to graph databases, and I hope Neo4j will be the pioneer leader in this, by coming up with a community standard for an embedded metamodel subgraph feature.