LMC Formal Review 13 th January 2009 Jarred McGinnis KTP Technology Associate Knowledge Transfer Partnership University of the Arts London / The Press Association

The past 3 months in review Another residential management course done (one more to go) Completed second assignment and working on the second Presented mini-project (David P. in attendance) Registered for PRINCE2 course (5 days, last week in February) Researched “auto-tagging” state of the art Exalead, SAFE, Presto-space, Media-Campaign, Nstein, RichNews, Muddy Boots, GATE Edinburgh Uni.(coming soon), Oxford Uni., Sheffield Uni., Collaborations with PA Photo and their KTP associate Designed Journotes Project and its timeline Journotes Project on Schedule Chosen and installed mediawiki Preliminary Interviews with Journalists about usability Worked on hiding the more daunting aspects of wikis with simple, clean interface Worked with Mark Streatfield on design of page templates Beginning to indentify and address the challenges facing the project

Another residential management course done (one more to go)

Completed second assignment and working on the second

Presented mini-project (David P. in attendance)

Registered for PRINCE2 course (5 days, last week in February)

Researched “auto-tagging” state of the art

Exalead, SAFE, Presto-space, Media-Campaign, Nstein, RichNews, Muddy Boots, GATE

Edinburgh Uni.(coming soon), Oxford Uni., Sheffield Uni.,

Collaborations with PA Photo and their KTP associate

Designed Journotes Project and its timeline

Journotes Project on Schedule

Chosen and installed mediawiki

Preliminary Interviews with Journalists about usability

Worked on hiding the more daunting aspects of wikis with simple, clean interface

Worked with Mark Streatfield on design of page templates

Beginning to indentify and address the challenges facing the project

Journotes

Journotes in situ

Next Steps Journotes (user driven development) Set-up ‘live’ test system The slog – manual bootstrapping of PA content Train ‘test’ group of wire journalist and refine system according to their experiences (structured use. Working on Political Bios and Olympians) Present biscuit session about Journotes (another opportunity for user input) Write user manuals, hold training sessions Gradually increase test user group Live by April Projected development need is minimal Auto-tagging project Develop time line (in step with other PA development work) Develop implementation plan and strategy

Journotes (user driven development)

Set-up ‘live’ test system

The slog – manual bootstrapping of PA content

Train ‘test’ group of wire journalist and refine system according to their experiences (structured use. Working on Political Bios and Olympians)

Present biscuit session about Journotes (another opportunity for user input)

Write user manuals, hold training sessions

Gradually increase test user group

Live by April

Projected development need is minimal

Auto-tagging project

Develop time line (in step with other PA development work)

Develop implementation plan and strategy

Thank you