Posts by nzlemming
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Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
The one big hole is that it handles image-to-PDF PDFs dubiously, which is a problem for anything older than about 1995 and also the journal Archives of Microbiology, for some reason, but if you’re largely working with papers from the past two decades – which is true enough most of the time – it’s fine.
Take John's approach from the previous page and put them up to Google Docs to be OCRed. Doesn't do too bad a job, actually.
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Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to merc,
Good organisations have documentation dept’s with people expressly there for formatting and publishing said docs whilst content providers worry about producing content not
I sort of agree, but getting simple semantic templates for document preparation and using styles instead of visually altering headings and the like would go a long way to producing accessible documents. If you need DTP resource for a special purpose, hire it in as required. The reason most government agencies don't have these people any more is that they don't have a full-time need. And those people, when we had them, were more about design than accessibility. We've been seduced by style over substance.
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Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to Elisa Lavelle,
Hi Mark – would you (or anyone else) know if there has been a BIM for the ACC Minister? I haven’t come across one and have been interested in the shifts in this portfolio. Kind regards Elisa.
Well prompted ;-) I've just started looking for the ones I think should be there on the Beehive list. The ACC report is buried in the Accountability Documents section of their site. Reasonably accessible but more than a few withheld sections.
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Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
How are you finding Mendeley? I tried it once and couldn't get my head around it at the time (probably because what I wanted was something that would parse a document and auto-create an abstract more than just do bib work).
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Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to jungle pickle,
Oh, absolutely. But I don't know that I could have covered all of that in one blog post. ;-)
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Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to Sacha,
Oh, you thinking Archives? I suspect that Auckland Council will have inherited all the previous records for the component councils, including COCs
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Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to Sacha,
Still be LGOIMA to the Auckland Council, I think
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Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to John Holley,
No, I did know you could do that to scanned docs and have done so. I hadn't realised it would also bypass the document security settings, though it's obvious in hindsight. It doesn't invalidate my point, though: why do we need to do this to get at our information?
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Hard News: Media Mathematics, in reply to Sacha,
Right, we're holding you responsible then. Beatings later.
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Speaker: Properly Public: It's our information, in reply to Andrew E,
Readers of this blog might also be interested in John Edwards' recent post on the BIMs.
Thanks, Andrew, I hadn't seen that. I concur completely. The OIA is a poorly understood beast by government agencies and ministers, and the public as a whole.