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Last week began with refocussing on the incorporation of more design content. We start on a first pass with a type of centre\/edge , type\/topos approach.\u00a0 Basically, we find people\/groups\/case that would constitute an ‘exemplar’ of hegemonic success in a field (in terms of established field criteria like prizes or commissions etc)\u00a0 and\u00a0 map those against other cases that push the borders of what is understood as ‘the field’.\u00a0 We grid the case studies and then overlay\u00a0 the connections between the types that help us think about other methods of organisation.<\/p>\n
<\/a> \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n We then drill down in case studies to find tricky cases and map them against conforming ones. We find case studies that our existing schema might have trouble with. For instance, time<\/em>, is a major axis of historical research- that is to say, it is a key filter that people will use on search queries.\u00a0 In our database this category does a lot of work (as it attaches to so many categories). So we run tests that have time problems. For instance,\u00a0 how to cover the issue of the changing names and principals and partners of design houses?\u00a0 How can we the ‘period active’ category in the existing schema to raise more meaningful searches. As we go through this process it help clarifies how data relates to each other- so we can find the most elegant data design solutions that don’t introduce so many elements that takes us away from our core business of biography ( albeit, a dynamic and expanded notion of what constitutes a creative ‘life’) so we can draw upon and expand our strengths so our content can be sustained in a quality state in an online context.<\/p>\n \n <\/a> \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n I love iterative whiteboard days. Days of focussing on concrete problems, collaborating with Olivia and Jo, or Ross Harley ( our Lead CI) , or Tom Ruthven (UNSW Library Innovation) among others and working the thoughts though diagrammatically- dumping the thought and the standing back and altering till it finally morphs into something approaching either a ‘design’ or ‘description’..<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
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