ALEG
Weekly Report - Week 14, 4 August 2000
What I've done
- Meeting with Charles Newton/Willma Nelowkin from Computer Science,
and Tony Ralli, Fran Cassidy and Marie-Louise from the Library to
discuss platform options for ALEG. No issues raised regarding
the design. Agreed to get quotes
for hardware from Sun, which Fran has done already!
- Talked to Fran about formats for transferring data
from AUSTLIT - we've settled on the format used to dump
data for the AUSTLIT CD
- Talked to Kerry about formats for transferring data
from BAL/LAW - Kerry extracted the data and has emailed it to
me
- Starting drafting database designs to implement the logical
model
- Drafted an Implementation Plan for Stage 3
What I haven't done but need to do soon!
- 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!
Next week
- I'm uneasy about the capacity/cost of the proposed Sun hardware
- more discussions this week with Marie-Louise and Fran, hopefully
resolve and order hardware
- Meeting with Kinetica team from NLA re access to holdings options
- Complete physical database design
- Hardware related things will probably now be late - after completing
database design start on designing server and client infrastructure.
Summary
-
The hardware issue has me a bit concerned. It is definately
easiest for everyone if we go with Solaris under SPARC hardware,
but the cost/benefit looks questionable. Other options allow us
to save a lot on hardware, and get a more upgradable system,
but could be more complicated to support.