POC is a fluid by it’s very nature. This POC-2 week has challenged how we want to run this project.
Evolution 0
The POC Collection Management engine / blackbox’s name has now evolved to:
EDITH - Edna Discovery Information Trapper and Hoarder (edna’s little sister).
Evolution 1
Cool thought for the day. We evolved the idea that we’re creating another place for Information Officers (IO) to find resource just like Google, RSS feeds, del.icio.us etc but infact we’re are developing the place where resources come to ed.au IOs instead.
It’s not just about discovering masses of online resources but it’s an engine that allows you to tap into any/many online repositories and extract the authoritative tags, people and resources for evaluating and describing quality educational resources.
Evolution 2
A questioned was raised: are we accidentally doing what we sought to avoid - another triptych type project? Focusing on Discovery for this Show and Tell 1; Evaluation for SnT-2; Description for SnT-3?
Yes but no. We have evolved from ‘POC-1′ way of doing something completely unplanned at each stage to now with POC-2 having a consistent plan from beginning to end.
Evolution 3
A hard call for the POC lead, Sarah: to delay or not to delay. The primary factors:
- Nick and Vaughan have other urgent project work demanding their precious time.
- Nick is unsure whether he’ll something decent ready by next Friday.
- A short week this week compounding the issue.
- A desire to keep the POC on track time-wise.
- A desire to have someting decent for SnT-1.
Sarah has answered the question by being realistic: she scoped the potential development time Nick & Vaughan is going to get and looking how that affects the rest of the schedule. It will only be either a 1 or 2 week delay.
The evolved decision: delay now and wait to next Wednesday for Nick’s assessment on the time required to get to SnT-1.
[Thanks Janet Reid the blog’s picture mashup]
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Great blog Tom. You captured the discussion well. I’d also like to mention the notion advanced by Nick of the Dial (dare I say that could stand for Discovery, Information, Assessment, Labelling?!). Nick suggested that our device could be used as a kind of dial. We choose certain settings depending on how much we want to filter out or allow in, for example: (1) by sectors - perhaps we want to capture more widely for schools via EDITH than for Higher education because there might be more on higher ed in delicious (a speculative example only!) – so we might say (for argument’s sake) that we require 3 users to have bookmarked the same item for one sector and 5 for another; or, (2) we may have a situation where several Information officers are on leave and our capturing efforts are down – so we “turn up the dial” to capture more via EDITH for that period. The idea of building in our evaluation elements as settings on the dial is very exciting.
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