Lately, the team’s collective mind has been really focussed on schema design. We have working through the LIEF’s brief which requires that our database have more information on exhibitions, roles ( like curators, clients, gallery directors and secondary roles, like teacher, administrator etc) to help with generating more profound research queries. We have of course [...]
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Schema Design!
September 10th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Its been a big week as we have been concentrating on Schema Design. We have been analysing the new datasets that have been coming our way and continuing our phone and face to face interviews with CIs to clarify and refine exactly how we need to extend over coverage in the ares of Exhibitions, Organisations, [...]
Tags:consultation·design·diagrams·schema
Project Map: at a glance 1.0
September 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
This diagram represents an overview of the schedule, major components and milestones of the Project. It is a gantt chart in box form. As the project progresses, various little elements will change within it as we learn more – but the critical path should not change.
more whiteboard adventures
August 26th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
This week Olivia and I have been focusing on the schema changes we need to implement in order to capture additional information on Exhibitions. We have been analysing Jonathan Holmes’ wonderful Art@Base exhibitions database, which, as well as providing much needed content, has provided a very useful model for an expanded exhibitions field structure. We [...]
This week in whiteboard
August 13th, 2010 · Comments Off · Uncategorized
Many of the most illuminating discussions i have with people on any project is over diagrams. When someone makes that box connect to that circle via an arrow (or better yet, a dotted line), that is usually when the penny drops for me. Here are a few of the scribbles that facilitated conversation this week. [...]
Tags:agile·diagrams·method·whiteboard
Cacoo: collaborative drawing tool
January 4th, 2010 · Comments Off · Resources, Tools & applications
Cacoo is still a bit buggy but has potential for those wanting to construct diagrams with others online and in real time. The editing tool comes with a set of very easy to use drag/drop stencils to construct flowcarts, network charts, UML, mindmaps etc. It’s also possible to upload any image onto the page. Diagrams [...]