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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 […]

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Vale delicious?

December 17th, 2010 · Comments Off on Vale delicious? · Uncategorized

TechCrunch has reported a leaked slide from a Yahoo internal meeting which intimates the once popular social bookmarking site delicious.com (owned by Yahoo) may be shut down. It’s early days yet, only being a couple of hours since the report appeared on TechCrunch, but the online world is already responding. At the moment, #delicious is […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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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