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Floodgates open!

September 17th, 2010 · Comments Off on Floodgates open! · Uncategorized

Many of you, particularly those of you on the Editorial Board and the Art- and Design Research Groups will have been receiving  quite a few emails from Olivia and I this week; informing you of consultation processes and timelines; providing reports and asking for feedback, updates on how work is proceeding on the MREII grant. […]

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Schema Design!

September 10th, 2010 · Comments Off on Schema Design! · 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,  […]

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Project Map: at a glance 1.0

September 3rd, 2010 · Comments Off on Project Map: at a glance 1.0 · 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.

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THATCamp Canberra

August 30th, 2010 · Comments Off on THATCamp Canberra · Uncategorized

THATcamp Canberra is now finished, I’ve learnt so much in the past two days that it would take three days to write a coherent report. No time for that at present, so for now I’ll just list in  a random way the things I got from ThatCamp. There is the twitterfeed #thatcamp for more extensive […]

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more whiteboard adventures

August 26th, 2010 · Comments Off on more whiteboard adventures · 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 […]

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This week in whiteboard

August 13th, 2010 · Comments Off on This week in whiteboard · 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. […]

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