On Thursday 27th August, Colin and Cerys met with Graham at Wolfson College, Oxford to discuss the potential roles(s) of Annalist in characterising metadata usage, with a longer-term view to putting together a “getting started” guide for researchers wishing to…

Towards the end of Phase 1, we looked at how our methodology had changed since we conceived the project. That discussion continued during the second sandpit and indeed the methodology continues to evolve during Phase 2. To begin with, we…

Iris is currently working on an audio visual piece called Smoke gets in your Eyes. It is made from original photographic documentation of mid 20th-century air pollution in the cities of Pittsburgh and St Louis (courtesy of the Smoke Control…

Iris Garrelfs (University of the Arts London) is investigating the extent to which metadata is – or could be – used actively within practice-based research and Procedural Blending (see What is?). Iris is also comparing the nature of the data…

Graham Klyne is continuing his work with Annalist, modelling the STFC use case in collaboration with Tom Griffin and gaining a fuller understanding of the procedural blending model for describing creative/artistic processes, working with Iris Garrelfs and Thanasis Velios. With…

We resumed work on the website several weeks ago, but ran into difficulties that appeared to be related to the setup of the WordPress instance we are using. Since then, Cerys has Willoughby taken up the challenge and is improving…

We heard from Daniela that the our project had been selected for the second development phase. Now we’re busy pulling together the information that we need to supply to Daniela: numerous emails and edits to the project plan.

Mike Mineter has provided us with notes about the TaPP workshop (Edinburgh, 8-9 July 2015) that he attended and presented a poster about CREAM, using GeosMeta as an example (ask Mike if you would like a copy of the poster).…