The Think Tank

how creative can you possibly be when you are making money

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:56:00 -0800

how creative can you possibly be when you are making money

The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model [PDF 156KB]

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:48:59 -0800

The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model [PDF 156KB]:

The DCC Curation Lifecycle Model provides a graphical high level overview of the stages required for successful curation and preservation of data from initial conceptualisation or receipt. The model can be used to plan activities within an organisation or consortium to ensure that all necessary stages are undertaken, each in the correct sequence. The model enables granular functionality to be mapped against it; to define roles and responsibilities, and build a framework of standards and technologies to implement. It can help with the process of identifying additional steps which may be required, or actions which are not required by certain situations or disciplines, and ensuring that processes and policies are adequately documented.

Curation Reference Manual

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:37:00 -0800

Curation Reference Manual:

The Manual is an ongoing, community-driven project, which involves members of the DCC community suggesting topics, authoring manual installments and conducting peer reviews.

Each instalment is designed to help data custodians, producers and users better understand the challenges they face and the roles that they play in creating, managing and preserving digital information over time. For each topic covered, suggestions for best practice and real life examples are given.

"Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:08:14 -0800

“Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.”

- William James

"Truth in our ideas means their power to work."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:46:04 -0800

“Truth in our ideas means their power to work.”

- William James

"A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes..."

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:27:59 -0800

“A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.”

- William James

‘The Corporate Machine’, based on the original comic...

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:09:38 -0800

‘The Corporate Machine’, based on the original comic strip from The Flowfield Unity.
(Music by William Godfrey)

"The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction..."

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:52:46 -0800

“The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.”

- Walter Benjamin

Subterranean ant structures rival human ones

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:00:31 -0800

Subterranean ant structures rival human ones

Inventing Wonderland: The Child as Muse Alice Liddell as a...

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:49:00 -0800

Inventing Wonderland: The Child as Muse

Alice Liddell as a beggar girl, photographed by Lewis Carroll in 1859, when she was seven and he was twenty-seven. He wrote Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for her three years later.

Open to Suggestions

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:28:01 -0800

If there are ways you see that we could make our service better we’re open to your input and suggestions.

Orangutan’s learn to search for food with learning toys at...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:06:45 -0800

Orangutan’s learn to search for food with learning toys at Nyaru Menteng.

The Red Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge) is a 1956 fantasy short film,...

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:37:00 -0800

The Red Balloon (Le Ballon Rouge) is a 1956 fantasy short film, directed by Albert Lamorisse. It is a dialogue free film which nonetheless won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.

"A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous..."

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:40:00 -0800

“A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don’t compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devices and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.”

- Carl Sandburg

Billy Collins ‘Forgetfulness’ (animation by Arturo...

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:56:41 -0800

Billy Collins ‘Forgetfulness’ (animation by Arturo Wibawa)

Forgetfulness — Billy Collins Animated Poetry

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:25:52 -0800

Forgetfulness — Billy Collins Animated Poetry

M Contests

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:11:00 -0800

Our @mcontests feed has just been launched with to the minute Calls for Entries, Submissions & Proposals for Playwriting, Songwriting, Journalism, Photography, Advertising, Design & Literary Competitions from around the world.

"For the tools of learning are the same, in any and every subject; and the person who knows how to..."

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:30:31 -0800

“For the tools of learning are the same, in any and every subject; and the person who knows how to use them will, at any age, get the mastery of a new subject in half the time and with a quarter of the effort expended by the person who has not the tools at his command.”

- Dorothy Sayers (The Lost Tools of Learning)

Once in a while in a design session there comes a time when your...

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:34:00 -0800

Once in a while in a design session there comes a time when your eyes will play tricks on you and will need to get couple other people’s eyes on a design just to double-confirm that you aren’t losing your mind. More often than not, the design will need to change to fit the common perception, and you can almost always count on at least one person to tell you that there is a ‘perfectly logical explanation’.

sleep in heavenly peace

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:15:29 -0800

sleep in heavenly peace