Below are some of the highlights of each month.

July.

• Learning curve- immersion- scoping. all planning and listening no big announcements for this month

August:

• Datamapping and datamining begins: Dorothy Erikson database, Buku -Larrngy database, Art@Base.
• Digital Art Online enters into collaborative relationship with DAAO for data ingestion and exchange.
• DAAO begins collaboration with Eva Breuer Gallery to ingest data and working party is formed to investigate DAAO collaboration with other commercial galleries into the promotion and sustaining of Art History in tertiary secondary curriculum.
• Technical Steering Group formed: David Turnbull (Manager, UNSW, Web and Innovation), Sebastian Chan, (Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies, Powerhouse Museum)  Patrick Stoddart (Senior Manager, Technology Enabled Learning & Teaching, UNSW), Prof. Ross Harley ( Lead CI)
• ‘House of Laudanum‘ hired to conduct Business Analysis
• Memorandum of Understanding reached between Powerhouse Museum and DAAO to engage in collaborative research to develop of systems and processes for data exchange of design content. Working toward ARC Linkage together.
• Schema Analysis and Design begun
• Benchmarking begun

September

• Phone interviews with all CIs ( except two currently OS) completed.
• All Advisory Groups finalised ( see Research result page for details)
• First set of Research Scenarios and Benchmarks designed and sent to ART Research Advisory group
• External Experts for Design Research Advsiory group confirmed. User Experience consultants hired to organsie first meeting with Design Group .
• We have finally found the perfect Data Manager, Ms Jo Croucher. Backend Metadata Schema Analysis begun. Research into interoperable standards begun.
• Research Director ( Gillian) and Lead CI ( Ross Harley) received interim Business Analysis Report from House of Laudanum
• Procurement process for User Experience and Interface Design begun.
• More wonderful databases coming our way. ie Amy Griffith’s Artist Run Initiative’s database.
• The MREII grant (that Olivia Bolton is managing) is going very well and proving very useful in preparing the DAAO for its eventual migration to its new expanded schema.
• Gillian attended ThatCamp in Canberra. ( see post for details)
• Olivia will be on a much deserved break through October.

• More reports coming in:  Business Analysis ( House of Laudanum) completed.  DAAO site technical Review (Doric Order) draft review completed. Final version ready in Nov.  These will feed into design and development process.
• We will be finalising schema design and overseeing the building of wireframe filemaker  site  for user testing.
• more consultation… check your inboxes (BTW: Gillian is sometimes geemaree@gmail.com. Apparently some are getting emails from my default box rather than my g.fuller@unsw account)
• Datawashing process begun. Cleaning up data entry errors.  Identifying  and correcting data entry errors and incorrect use of fields.
• Legal Advice about changeover to Creative Commons License and holding Images commissioned.
• Liaising with ANDS about data capture and syndication projects
• Technical Advisory group activated.  Technical decisions about best platform for sustainability made.

• Legal advice received about processes of change to Creative Commons licences. Recommendations accepted by Management Committee, we will proceed with changeover.
• User experience design process underway
• Wireframe testing of User Experience (site navigation)
• Site look and feels produced
• Online testing of schema refinements
• Membership research begun.
• Datawashing continues
• Data maintenance and interoperability research continues, standards and vocabularies
• System Requirement specification document in process. First draft produced and sent to Technical Advisory Committee for feedback.

• Hiring Developer to build site
• Continuing brand development
• Finalisation of schema and my SQL restructure
• continuation of interoperability research
• data migration preparation
• publish overview of the project’s next six months.