8-9 December 2005
On 8-9 December 2005, the Australia and New Zealand Digital Encyclopedia Group (ANZDEG) met in Wellington, New Zealand.
8 December 2005
On the 8 December 2005, Te Ara the Encyclopedia of New Zealand and the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage hosted the group at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
- 9:00 am - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. The experience so far; current trends in use, and looking forward. Jock Phillips, Te Ara, Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
- 10:30 am - Morning tea
- 11:00 am - Dictionary of Sydney. Ian Johnson, Archaeological Computing Laboratory & TimeMap Project, University of Sydney.
- 11:45 am - Encyclopedia of Melbourne. Andrew Brown-May, Encyclopaedia of Melbourne
- 12:30 pm - Lunch
- 1:15 pm - South Seas and Indigenous Queensland Cultural Atlas. Paul Turnbull, Head of the School of Arts, Media and Culture at Griffith University, Brisbane.
- 2:00 pm - Open Session for Project Showcases. This was interrupted by the fire drill.
- 2:45 pm - Afternoon tea.
- 3:15 pm - From the User Perspective: Personas. Discussion led by Jonathan O'Donnell and Tessa Copland. Statistics New Zealand had found them very effective, and Nicky McCreanor gave us some great insights.
- 4:15 pm - Identification of issues and topics for Friday breakout sessions.
- Evening - Dinner.
9 December 2005
On the 9 December 2005, the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) hosted the group at Victoria University of Wellington.
- Search Retrieve Web (SRW). Implemented in Te Ara The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Tim Wheeler, Optimation, Wellington, New Zealand.
- 9:00 am - Topic maps, user interface and external linking. Conal Tuohy, NZ Electronic Text Centre, Victoria University of Wellington.
- 10:00 am - Metadata - "wild vs. naked". Jonathan O'Donnell, Web Consultant, Melbourne.
- 10:30 am - Morning tea.
- 11:00 am - Aboriginal Language Database (Web Interface Issues). Michael Walsh, Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney.
- 11:30 am - Telling stories in interactive environments. Elias Wyber, Murdoch University, Perth.
- 12:00 pm - Lunch.
- 1:00 pm - Breakout session 1 - two streams.
- 1:45 pm - Report back.
- 2:15 pm - Afternoon tea.
- 2:45 pm - Breakout session 2 - two streams.
- 3:30 pm - Report back.
- 4:00 pm - Wrap up and action. Ian Johnson and Jock Phillips.
