Re: Assistance with Research for Computerbank

[Daniel Dekok <kazgar01@yahoo.com>]

Off the top of my head, A lot of the government based
materials are in pdf format, which should be fine in
reading.  From experience the GST cdrom did have a
windows based application (i think it was macromedia)
but there was a lot of data in pdf as well.

...Just had a quick look around, the information about
the CD has this: "This product is produced by
Standards Australia International Limited on behalf of
the ABCB."  (this is from
http://www.abcb.gov.au/content/products/)

www.standards.com.au offers all the australian
standards on one CD for some immense amount, and it
seems to consist of a windows based search/database
tool linked to, again, pdf files :)

As for the whole system of helping out, couldn't
sometihng like bugzilla be useful here, forward the
questions into the system, then people can mark the
questions there working on, so others don't need to.

Daniel

--- Kylie Davies <kylied@projectx.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> CBV (and hopefully other CB\'s) will start to
> forward generic research questions
> on behalf of users / recips to our mailing lists
> (this one and the cbtechnical
> list). 
> 
> The idea behind this is to increase the sharing of
> tasks that dont actually
> require physical presence to complete. That is you
> really dont have to be
> anywhere to do this research stuff! 
> 
> In order to avoid many people doing the research
> (and duplicating effort) we
> will need to work out a system for doing this. The
> best way I can see is for
> individuals to put their hands (or emails up) up to
> say \"this one is for me\" or
> \"hmmm, yeah I know a bit about this - I\'ll take it
> on\". If it is something that
> can be discussed on the list - then an open
> discussion could be started.
> 
> Thoughts please?
> 
> So lets give this whole research idea a go then;
> 
> 1. First question for all is about CDROM books.
> Computerbank has recently been
> asked (twice) about CD ROM books / info disks and
> whether or not they will be
> able to be read on our systems where there has been
> a cdrom installed or
> provided. 
> 
> Does anyone know what kind of file formats these
> come in? Has anyone had
> experience with this kind of thing?
> 
> 2. More specifically, one person was asking whether
> or not the Australian
> Building Practices code (apparently available on cd)
> and other related materials
> could be read on the systems that we are
> distributing. 
> 
> Does anyone want to take this up? What other things
> would it be good to know
> about this research? 
> 
> There is no deadline for this question but an answer
> (or thoughts) within a week
> would be good. :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Kylie Davies
> Executive Officer
> Computerbank Victoria
> http://www.computerbank.org.au/


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices
http://auctions.yahoo.com/
-
ComputerBank Australia -- http://www.computerbank.org.au/