ALEG

What I've done

• Most of this week has been spent drafting and discussing the list of attributes we need to keep in the data model, resulting in the production of an inventory.

• Thought more about the relationships between the entities of the data model, and how a topic map approach could help. Investigated the International Council Of Museums's CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model.

• Thought about a browsing interface which would allow users to explore ALEG by following relationships. A preliminary visualisation based on the Windows Explorer model raises as many questions as it answers, but is a start.

• Find out more about Kinetica and NLA plans for making holdings data available at no cost (?) (still pending...)

• Get the mini web site onto a shared network drive so that others can more easily add and update documents.

• Continue discussions on and refinement of the data model.

• Continue thinking/discussions on visualisations of the complex relationships - trying to come up with a browse model which users will find intuitive and useful.

• Start thinking about data maintenance user interface requirements.

• I'll be away Wednesday and Thursday at Australian Securities and Investment Commission.

• Going fine - I hope to get wide feedback on the data model over the next two weeks and have the basic attributes and relationships bedded down.