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What I plan to do in August at work?
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What I plan to do in August at work?
On June 6, 2005, I started to write about ![[WWW]](/www/moin/htdocs/classic/img/moin-www.png)
my big (professional) dreams, specifically, what "I've been trying to accomplish in my professional work over the last five years and where I want to go in the next five." I pointed out that the statement Seamless Use and Reuse of Digital Content By Scholars, a statement of current and future research plans and interests, is still mostly accurate. I didn't get very far in writing about those "big dreams" because I could not find a way to articulate how the big dreams were related to the "small things" that have caught my attention and my writing time.
For instance, recent entries on my blog cover topics such as my dead camera, Virtual Earth, RDF, Web 2.0, and embedding URNs in HTML. On their own, these entries are reasonably coherent, but how do they tie into my stated research theme of "creating an ideal scholarly information environment that would give researchers seamless access to any digital content source, handle any content type, and apply any software service to this scholarly content"?
Showing how all the pieces of my work (including what I write on my work blog) tie together is my major work-oriented goal for the next month. Specifically, some of the tasks I plan to accomplish in service of the goal are:
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describing the current state of the Scholar's Box and creating a plan for developing it as both as an "end-to-end" prototype for gather/create/share functionality and as a usable piece of software.
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outlining an architecture that should undergird a revision of the Scholar's Box
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describing how working on the Scholar's Box tool relates to furthering the causes of fostering gather/create/share services in systems outside of our control
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decide on the sources and types of content around which to focus future Scholar's Box development
Clearly, such a list is only a small start to figuring out what to do. I'm pleased that I just came across the free chapter 3 of Scott Berkun's new book on project management: How to figure out what to do.
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I usually like to work in parallel on a number of entries. Here I list them so they can be easily noted and accessed:
