Dear all,

I am wondering if anybody would be interested in proposing a Wikidata mapping using CIDOC CRM. Heraklion, where the conference will take place, is a CRM centre where lots of LOD specialists will join.

I would be happy to answer any questions

best Trilce

**CIDOC 2018 Call for Papers* OPEN UNTIL February 28, 2018Now through February 28, we are accepting proposals for presentations, workshops, and case studies for the International Committee for Documentation (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museum’s (ICOM) annual conference. Every year, the CIDOC conference brings together museums and cultural heritage professionals and researchers together in a dynamic, common forum to share knowledge and experience, to gain new perspectives and to make new connections. The theme of this year’s conference is Provenance of Knowledge. Visit the CIDOC 2018 Call for Papers page for submission guidelines and selection criteria: http://www.cidoc2018.com/call-papers http://www.cidoc2018.com/call-papersThis year’s conference will be held in the historical seaside city of Heraklion, Crete in Greece from the 29th of September until the 4th of October. The conference offers a full programme of sessions and working groups offering new perspectives and hands on learning experiences. Conference participants, moreover, will have the chance to experience the museological, historical and natural wealth of Crete through a full cultural programme, including a visit to the archaeological site of Knossos, palatial capital of the ancient Minoan civilization.The thematic focus of the conference is ‘the Provenance of Knowledge.’ As an essential aspect of documentation, Provenance of Knowledge refers to the work of tracing the origins of the information and knowledge about an object, an entity or an idea in order to reconstruct the whole chain of creation, use, interpretation and dissemination of this knowledge. The aim of such reconstruction is to confirm or disconfirm, illustrate, and draw upon the information contained in documentation in order to facilitate understanding across cultures and time. Work on provenance of knowledge by different professionals from different perspectives helps draw together the various threads of documentation, scholarship and the material evidence kept in museums and other memory institutions into a common resource for humankind.The task of validating the information and knowledge held in memory institutions is increasingly aided by the use of digital technologies in documentation. Such advances, however, bring their own difficulties, as the abundance of the available information makes it difficult to introduce standards and processes to model and maintain the development and validity of documented information. Therefore, perspectives on unravelling the complications of digital provenance of knowledge are particularly welcome.The 2018 CIDOC conference aims at supporting museums and memory institutions in the task of documentation by deepening our common understanding of the challenges of provenance of knowledge and the importance of documentation as a means of knowledge preservation, dissemination and exchange between peoples and across time.You are, therefore, warmly welcomed to share your insight into the questions of provenance of knowledge and documentation generally with the documentation community of CIDOC that will be gathered on the beautiful island of Crete, Sep. 30 – Oct. 5, 2018.Visit the CIDOC 2018 Call for Papers page for submission guidelines and selection criteria: http://www.cidoc2018.com/call-papers http://www.cidoc2018.com/call-papers*