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Data visualisation and advanced MUSKETry

by alanepaull
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on Wednesday, 28 March 2012
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One of Jamie Mahoney's ON Course blog posts suggested this train of thought. It was started by a quote from Edward Tufte’s 'Visual Display of Quantita...
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Part time pre-Ellumination

by alanepaull
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on Wednesday, 14 March 2012
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We have a second Elluminate session on XCRI-CAP data definitions and vocabularies this afternoon, so naturally I've been ruminating on the subject. So...
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Round 2 of data definitions continues

by alanepaull
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on Monday, 05 March 2012
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I've been amending v1.6 of the Data Definitions document and v2.0 of the Vocabulary Framework for a few days now. Rather more has come up than expecte...
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BS 8581 and all that jazz

by alanepaull
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on Tuesday, 21 February 2012
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BS 8581-1 is the catchy name for the emerging British standard that is / was XCRI-CAP. Members of BSI committee IST/43 (trips of the tongue, no?) have...
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Vocabulary Framework

by alanepaull
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on Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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I've now at last published the draft Vocabulary Framework Document for the Course Data Programme: you can get it at http://www.xcri.co.uk/KbLibrary/Co...
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Straw man

by alanepaull
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on Wednesday, 25 January 2012
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Well, the first public draft of the straw man data definitions document has been published (Version 1.6 of Data Definitions). It's rather longer than ...
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Working group working

by alanepaull
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on Wednesday, 18 January 2012
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The working group on data specification and vocabularies has started. Many thanks to the early birds who've already begun to comment on the initial 's...
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Welcome to the data specification and vocabularies blog!

by alanepaull
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on Wednesday, 18 January 2012
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This blog section is to focus on the work we're doing on the data definitions (or specifications, I'm not sure quite which one I prefer) and vocabular...
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