[copy of my post from the RRT Team blog]
Introductory Report released
We’re pleased to announce the release of the final version of RRT’s introductory report:
An ecological approach to repository and service interactions .
In the report we examine the idea that ecology can usefully serve as a metaphor (or source of metaphors) to help articulate the complex [...]
At the end of this week JISC’s Common Repositories Interfaces Group (CRIG) are holding a two day meeting to look at the key scenarios affecting repository interfaces.
Our discussions for the two days are going to build on a series of teleconferences organised by the CRIG support project - WoCRIG which have just been podcast. I’m [...]
This a more focused brief discussion to follow up my last post about different approaches to modeling. It attempts to understand some of the similarities and differences between a domain modeling approach and an ecological approach.
Thoughts so far:
Like a domain model an ecological view is concerned with more than the technical issues and interfaces
A domain [...]
A brief update on the progress of the repository ecology work. We’ll be revising the draft report shortly but here’s an overview of what else is going on with this work.
ECDL2007 Workshop
We held a workshop in conjunction with this year’s ECDL conference (workshop home page http://tinyurl.com/27jses ). I’ll return to some of the presentations [...]
Or: a Friday afternoon study of poker.
In an attempt to make some more sense of how the ecological view fits with some other key ideas in the repository space here are some different views on a game of poker. I hope that taking a non-repository related example should force a clearer articulation. When time [...]
CaPRéT alpha testing - copy and paste text with license and attribution
