Australia and New Zealand
Digital Encyclopedia Group

ANZDEG 2006: 7-8 December 2006
Content with Form

When
Thursday 7 and Friday 8 December 2006
Where
Fifth Floor Function Room
John Medley Building
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Hosts
The 2006 workshop was hosted by the Cultural Heritage Unit, University of Melbourne and was organised by Andy Brown-May, Cate Elkner, Gavan McCarthy and Jonathan O’Donnell.

2006 programme

Thursday 7 December 2006

8.30 am
Registration (Fifth Floor Function Room, John Medley Building)
9.00 am
Presentations on key projects
  • Basil Dewhurst, National Library of Australia - People Australia
  • Stewart Wallace – Dictionary of Sydney
10.30 am
Morning tea (Fifth Floor Function Room)
11.00 am
Presentations
  • Leonie Hellmers – Dictionary of Australian Artists Online
  • Jessica Coates – Creative Commons Australia
12.30 pm
Lunch (Fifth Floor Function Room)
1.30 pm
Project Showcase
  • Ted Chrisfield – the LUNA system
  • Ross Somerville and Tony Murrow – Tawa
  • Helen Morgan – the Blue Mauritius research companion
  • Sophie Couchman – CHIA
  • Rachel Tropea – ADB online
  • Ian Johnson - Heurist
3.00 pm
Afternoon tea (Fifth Floor Function Room)
3.15 pm
Wrap-up session, Gavan McCarthy
4.00 pm
Discussion re Friday’s proceedings
5.00 pm
Drinks and informal launch of eGold website (5th Floor Function Room)
7.30 pm
Workshop dinner, Kri Kri Restaurant

Friday 8 December 2006

9.00 am
Gavan McCarthy, presentation on ‘form’ (setting the scene for the day’s technological break-out sessions)
9.45 am
Jock Phillips, presentation on ‘content’ (setting the scene for the content-oriented break-out sessions)
10.30 am
Morning tea (Fifth Floor Function Room)
11.00 am
Break-out sessions
  • Focus on content – how do you go beyond simply presenting the ‘facts’ in a digital encyclopaedia (Room 512)
  • Complex knowledge domains - authority files, topic maps, standards (Fifth Floor Function Room)
12.00 pm
Reports back from break-out sessions (Fifth Floor Function Room)
12.30 pm
Lunch (Fifth Floor Function Room)
1.30 pm
Break-out sessions
  • Writing for the web (Room 512)
  • Rights, business models, Creative Commons (5th Floor Function Rm)
2.30 pm
Reports back from break-out sessions (Fifth Floor Function Room)
3.00 pm
Afternoon tea (Fifth Floor Function Room)
3.15 pm
Wrap-up session: Nick Thieberger, 'e-research and the humanities'
3.45 pm
Final discussions, looking to next year