ALEG

What I've done

• Produced a draft of an Issues document attempting to group all the scary and unknown things together

• Produced a draft of an Implementation Options document, discussing options for implementation and proposing an approach based on widely used standards and "Open Source" components

• Completed update of data model based on feedback from Hobart meetings

• Yet more drafts of the Design Overview...

• Meeting with the AUSTLIT team which discussed the Data Model and Issues. This was a wonderful meeting which generated lots of ideas, but most welcome for me, we tackled the thesaurus issues and settled on an approach about which we all felt very positive (the results are now in the Issues document, and the Data Model Inventory has also been updated following this meeting).

• Meeting with Marie-Louise and Tony Ralli to discuss the project and the implementation options (all very positive).

• Detailed Implementation Timetable

• Feedback from partners on all the doco Marie-Louise has sent to them.

• Document how ALEG will handle some tricky cases - The "Poets of the Month" works from the mid 1970's and "Down the Lake with Half a Chook". These are amongst the most "difficult" cases Tessa and Kathy can come up with, so if we think the proposed data model can handle these, we'll be happy!

• Discussions with ADFA IT people on implementation hardware/software

• Prepare for meeting with Kinetica the week after on holdings

• Draft an implementation timetable

• A very productive week in which lots of loose ends were tidied up and a clear direction emerged.