This morning on the bus, I initiated a conversation with an NRCan employee and told him about what I was doing at work. When I told him about the Wiki, he was like, well you should check out Phoenix, it's a much better option,..... So I followed him to his office and he showed me the developments of Phoenix (http://www.decisiontools.ca/)...his comments and concerns were quite valid as NRCan has to deal a lot with Maps, and other geodata, and his concern was with Wikis being able to support any type of software or capabilities to manipulate, etc maps.... The program which runs through Phoenix is very special as it has all of the technological advantages of using map softaware (which is already intergrated), plus it has a lot of portal oppertunities, which seem quite interesting. And on top of things, you have to imagine that this software was develloped in South America, by countries who used it for National Security measures in the case of emergencies, etc... pretty interesting! Anywho, that has been my first part of the day...
Later this afternoon, I am headed to the National War Museum for a presentation on their collection by a librarian or archivist (not sure yet), but should be interesting nonetheless, and it's Thursday which means that the museum is free after 4pm, so it should make an interesting early evening!
Cheers,
Jer l'Acadien!
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