Configuration Management - lecture 7:

The library metaphor

Literature

• Kelly, chapters 5 & 7.

A CI is a Configuration Item (the formal definition is given in chapter 7).
Read chapter 5 to get the context in which we treat the library. Pay attention to page 35 and try to figure out what it is I like about it.
Study chapter 7 very carefully. Make sure that you fully understand:
• the difference between what is and what is not a CI
• the two-tier model - or is it three-tier?
• Bendix &Vinter.

You might want to go back to this paper and (re)read:
• the library metaphor and theory

Lecture summary

• CM levels
• workshop background and purpose
• the library, metaphor, principles and activities
• examples
• library structures
• identification, preservation and history
• how to run the workshop

Hand-outs

3 slides pr. page, 6 slides pr. page

Exercises

Exercises will be carried out in the established groups. Text for today's exercises.

Quote of the day

There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. (Swift)
Der findes intet bestandigt, undtagen forandring. (Gräsk ordsprog)