Australian Literature Electronic Gateway (ALEG)

1. Introduction

   - what is a data model, what is ALEG, why am I biased towards Topic Maps (22 May - 7 June 2000)

2. Data inventory

   - a list of what we need to store (27 July 2000)

3. ALEG Entity index

   - a closer look at the main entities in the data model (4 July 2000)

4. Relationships
   • Introduction

     - an exploration of relationships we may need to represent

   • Relationship Inventory Part 1 - Major ALEG Entities

     - a list of relationships we need to represent between the major ALEG entities - creator, work, instantiation (4 July 2000)

   • Relationship Inventory Part 2 - Topics and Major ALEG Entities

     - a list of major topics and relationships between them and between the major ALEG entities (4 July 2000)

   • Names, alternate names, pseudonyms...

     - about people and their names (3 July 2000)

   • Dates

     - even something as simple as a date isn't (10 August 2000)

5. Archive Items

   - incorporating non-bibliographic, non biographical material from the Lu Rees Archives (23 June 2000)

6. Visualisations

   - jumping the gun, but trying to make this less abstract by presenting a naive rendering for a browsing user of a Topic Map based system (6 June 2000)

7. Issues

   - tricky things we are unsure of (25 July 2000)