On the path to order and openess

I feel this picture sums up how I feel today, reflective and tired. I am doing my best at working out a framework for a detailed box list that will make most sense to the society. When starting on this cataloguing journey, do other people spend time scratching their heads as to where things should go? Or is that just me? Most of it, to my surprise, floated onto the page and has stayed in a sensible order. Who would believe it...
I have moved on from the artist and am now based up in Hampstead for a period of 3 weeks. This is another reason for the total lack keeping up to date on my blog but thank goodness for continuous work!

ICA AtoM

Being freelance I have been wondering how to overcome not being able to afford and use Calm to do archival cataloguing. Reading the recent posts on ICA Atom on the NRA list I thought it would be a good idea to have a further exploration of the actual product.

I have been specifically looking at the installation guide of ICA Atom as a virtual appliance as it would only exist on my old faithful computer.  It started out alright and I was feeling confident that I would be able to understand the process and the screen shots are a god send. But then things started to become a bit trickier, in terms of understanding the instructions. If you look at the page they are simple enough it is go here and do that but i feel that is only half of the problem solved. Now it may be that I am having a particularly bad day as usually I enjoyed installing new gadgets. Although I do now have more sympathy towards those people who set up Calm and other cataloguing systems on their own. How do they do it?!!  I’m sure with a little more time and patience it will go in and I will be up and running in no time.

AG