Hi All

The Sydney Morning Herald did a little story on our incredible administrator, Kim Goodwin last weekend.  Kim was the inaugural winner of the Nick Waterlow Scholarship in Art Administration. For those who want to read on http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/from-tragedy-comes-artistic-new-life-20110423-1ds0n.html

The DAAO is looking for an energetic and responsible Design Content Research Assistant to implement a short-term design content building project.

The main focus of the role will be mining and linking Australian design biographical content from specific partner catalogues and datasets into the DAAO.  The role will require a fair amount of working with databases so an eye for detail is necessary.

The position is Level 5 Casual, 0.6FTE for approximately 2.5 months (May to July 2011).

The position does not need to be Sydney-based, so those from other states who are willing and able to work remotely and keep in touch with the team online are very welcome to apply.

People interested in applying should email a C.V. and brief cover letter to Olivia Bolton (o.bolton (at) unsw.edu.au) as soon as possible as the project will begin in early May… how exciting!

Here is the position description

Sorry I haven’t posted for a while. What with data migration, site building, interoperability negotiations and stitching up our next LIE, blogging became priority c 😉

quick update;

data migration is more or less complete. We are just mainly ‘cleaning up’ now. Data Migration would have to be one of the most intense work experiences i’ve ever known. You learn so much about your  data and all the really grunty bits of data organisation. Huge learning curve for all of us and tremendously exciting- but also exhausting. I imagine Liz will post on the process sooner or later. ( She’s been quite heroic! – We love our data dudes at the DAAO!)

site building : we are working with editing interface now- bells and whistles are being attached each day. Alastair from IxC, (our developers) is an island of calm in an sea of activity tickets that fly around in the online project management system.  All appears to be happening more or less on time. all good there.

LIEF and interoperation: It is becoming apparent that we have a pressing need to develop some seriously efficient  automated and semi-automated  work flow tools for interoperating with large datasets. All the collections and research insitutions  I have met get the usefulness of our project and how it will expose quality datasets to eachother. Consequently,  everyone is signing on.  I was in Melbourne last week and was overwhelmed with how many major resources there are in Melbourne alone. We will be working very closely with many Victorian research and collection institutions in the next round. Its is very exciting and will enhance our research capacity enormously.

and finally! here are some identity concepts to comment on.

Both are still in development and both have been presented to Management Committee  and DAAO production teams (last Friday).  I won’t disclose our thoughts as yet, so as not to colour any opinions.  Comments are open. let us know what you think.

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE.

in context:

and another:

and in context.