ALEG

What I've done

• Attempted a way of organising people/pseudonyms/names. In the light of some of the work done by INDECS, we may add 'pseudo-person' between a person and a pseudonym-name in case we want to be able to ascribe person like qualities (birth date, gender, relationships, blood-group, further pseudonyms ...) to the pseud!

• XML Europe 2000 this week included 15 presentations on Topic Maps! Wow! Maybe this stuff is for real!

• Begun defining non-core topics and relationships. This is a big job, but bits are falling into place.

• Lots of email discussions with MLA, AM, KK

• Judith Pearce alerted us to the INDECS work, and also the IFLA FRBR (warning - 144 pages of PDF) and Harmony Project. These are all extremely relevant, and I'll assimilate ASAP!

• Investigated low-end Topic Map -like visualisation implemented by Lucid Fried Eggs example: www.memes.net.

• Start thinking about data maintenance user interface requirements.

• Continue define the "topics" we want to record, organise them in hierarchies and define relationships with major entities

• Continue discussions on and refinement of the data model. Hopefully update all documents with amendments arising from email and meetings.

• Probably in late (10-11?) Monday

• Start thinking about data maintenance user interface requirements.

• Well, didnt finish the data model first cut, as hoped (but I forgot it was a short week with a public holiday, but something tells me I was more than 1 day out..). On the other hand, the level of feedback and research into related directions (particularly Judith Pearce's references) was well worth while.

  Hope to definately complete the first cut of the data model this week!