Those following the Collection Improvement PoC might be interested in the edna Content Standards overview [also a PDF version 213Kb], - this describes policy issues that the PoC team are trying to automate.
In order to help people to get away from ‘production think‘, I’ve been struggling with trying to precisely define a Proof of Concept. It’s almost easier to define what it’s not…
Back in March this year, I thought:
A high risk, high trust and low governance project that creates a conceptual solution for the client. Focus solely […]
“We want to buy it” was one reaction from a guest at Show and Tell 2.
This is a common reaction to most Show and Tells; something which I take a sign of success (we’re on the right track) yet cringe with the thought ‘no - it’s a PoC; a prototype rather than a product‘.
Judging […]
Today’s blog post comes courtesy of Sarah
Show and Tell – although most of NCVER people can’t come we will go ahead on Fri 28th. Vaughan will invite the Flinders people. We will take 30 min, from 4 to 4.30, followed by drinks. Sarah will send general invitation to ed au and book Jo’s Café. We […]
Time to get the elves and the shoe maker busy again.
Required research: (a gem via Vaughan)
“A valuable way to gain understanding of a complex network is through the identification of its important, or prominent, nodes.”
Kleinberg Hubs and Authorities : is this coincidently what EDITH is? Is EDITH a way of discovering Authorities?
To get to Show […]
Yesterday’s meeting touched on the benefits of a strong vision. The vision provides a yard stick to measure all ideas against.For the evaluation stage, I started rambling on about ‘there should be an option for a IOs to tick if the resource is an event or document and therefore present a different set of […]
Through EDITH, your candidate educational website will be in the company of a lot of others: currently EDITH is generating over 250 website candidates a day!
With so many websites, which ones should Information Officers add to the collection?
In last week’s POC meeting we realised that the existing EDITH selection path for candidate website would not […]
Last month I challenged you to think how we could describe website and online resources accurately.
Here’s our thinking for the metadata ‘describe’ phase: to turn describing websites into a game that anyone can play online.
Here’s how we got there:
1. http://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=whatis Mechanical Turk is probably one of the best known early web based crowdsourcing systems used […]
I got very excited about how the structure of the web is changing under the momentum of web 2.0. The penny dropped when I realised Flickr, YouTube, Google and Del.icio.us, Yahoo Pipes aren’t websites - they’re fundamental web 2.0 service infrastructure.
Those organisations who doing great things in the web2.0 space are those who do […]
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 […]
