The regular reader of this blog would know the team wants to make what’s hard about collection management easy. This week’s meeting asked the question what’s hard about meta-data.
The answer is of course is creating ‘correct’ metadata. For example how would you extract the subject out of a website, PDF, Word doc, audio file […]
This week the POC2-EDITH team have been struggling with managing the magic project troika of resources, priorities and time.
Each one of us have had competing priorities affecting what we can achieve. The will and skill are there. Education.au’s experience for Proof of Concept issues has revealed time is our most critical factor in these projects. […]
This post on learning lessons is a week late. Learning the lessons at the end of each milestone rather than at the end of the project is a key POC characteristic.
The effort put into the Show and Tell 1 paid off. Everyone was engaged with the topic and there were even a few laughs. […]
I have become a fan of getting it wrong. Deliberately.
Ultimately it saves me a lot of time.
To explain: currently we are modelling how education.au intranet could be structured. All my preparations for this - content management, portal home page, security model mock-ups have been put up with the proviso that it’s probably totally wrong (requires […]
The following was the Show and Tell 1 to the staff at education.au.
Edna Proof of Concept 2 Show and Tell 1
Pop Quiz! ..and you thought you didn’t have to do any work!
Q: How many current records are held in the edna collection (that is not including the distributed collections like ABC […]
