Yesterday we had a our ‘kick- off ‘ meeting with our new developers ‘The Interaction Consortium‘ – known as IxC for short. This officially inauguarates the building stage of the project. Greg Turner (Director, PhD and Technical Information Architect among other things) drove the meeting that was attended by the DAAO project team, Lead CI […]
moving to creative commons licences!
January 25th, 2011 · Comments Off on moving to creative commons licences! · Uncategorized
As part of the process of opening up the DAAO to the structures and benefits that the internet has to offer, we are moving to Creative Commons Licensing system. This is a small step that has big benefits. Its a small step because our existing Contributor and End-User Licence Agreements are already Creative Commons licences […]
We’re back!
January 17th, 2011 · Comments Off on We’re back! · Uncategorized
Happy New Year! We’re back! well Olivia and I are. We’ve had great holidays ( I went bush and did some birdwatching, Olivia hung in Sydney and did very little) and we now are now refreshed and ready for our big year ahead. First stop (as always) is the whiteboard, where I have been plotting […]
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Testing: abridged database for schema design
November 18th, 2010 · Comments Off on Testing: abridged database for schema design · Uncategorized
We are currently seeking feedback from Key Users/Contributors about how we are expanding certain areas of data capture in the database. Below is a short (6 min) video in which Jo Croucher (Our Data Manager) and I talk through some of the issues that we are using this abridged version of database to test. Those […]
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the hard work of making things easy.
November 15th, 2010 · Comments Off on the hard work of making things easy. · Uncategorized
Huge meeting last Thursday with DAAO core team (Jo, Olivia and me) and the House of Laudanum team ( Zina, Snow and Lotte (who skyped in from Amsterdam). We talked a lot about the contributor- that is the person who will write accurate quality biographies and enter accurate relevant data in the metadata fields. When […]
User Experience- meet Lotte Meijer
November 10th, 2010 · Comments Off on User Experience- meet Lotte Meijer · Uncategorized
We have begun our User Experience design process. This is a very exciting stage of the project, where we really start getting a sense of the site will be like- how it will function and what it might look like. It is also the time when all the hard questions have to be asked and […]
back to the whiteboard
October 15th, 2010 · Comments Off on back to the whiteboard · Uncategorized
crunch time. reports flowing in. feedback from CIs on phone and questionnaires. there has been lots of information coming in that we need to synthesize, process, and find where it fits in the big jigsaw puzzle. Back to the whiteboard. Last week began with refocussing on the incorporation of more design content. We start on […]
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meet the team
October 5th, 2010 · Comments Off on meet the team · Uncategorized
The DAAO has finally got a Data Manager! Not a moment too soon. At this critical point of data design, we needed data management specialist to guide this phase of the project. The arrival of Jo Croucher completes our core team and the impact of her expertise on metadata schema organisation has been immediate. We […]
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