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DAMA Canberra Chapter's Corporate members include the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Australian Taxation Office (ATO), Centrelink, Customs, Department of Defence (DoD), Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA), Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC), Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA) and Medicare Australia. There are also a number of individual members who are independent contractors and consultants working in government agencies.
The Chapter holds bi-monthly meetings and hosts regular meetings of the Metadata Implementors Group that focuses on metadata standards, metadata registries, and other emerging metadata issues.
The major benefit sought by members is to be part of an informal network to hear guest speakers, network, and exchange ideas with data managers who have similar responsibilities in other organisations. To assist the networking, DAMA provides cocktails or a dinner with each meeting. On average thirty members will attend each meeting.
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Mid-Year Dinner, Roundtable Discussion and Annual General Meeting [view/hide details]
We are required to have an Annual General Meeting each year to elect committee members and be regailed with exciting and inspirational presentations from the President and Treasurer. Peter Davis is stepping down this year as, for some reason, he would rather take an extended trip around the world.
After the AGM we will have a roundtable discussion on what each of the represented Departments and organisations are doing in the data management arena.
Following drinks, we will be finishing the night with a dinner, heavily subsidised by DAMA. Partners are welcome to attend.
The cost for dinner will be $25/person for pre-dinner drinks and a two-course meal including wine.
About the AGM
The objectives of the annual general meeting are for the Committee to give members an update on what they have been up to and to fill committee positions. Whilst we haven’t been too rigorous about it in the past, the time has come when we really need to get some new and active participants involved. We definitely need a new president and our Treasurer wouldn’t mind a change. If anyone is interested in a particular position - please volunteer. The existing committee has always been a cooperative and flexible team. Although sometimes it has been tough to maintain connections as jobs, circumstances and email accounts change!
Below is a brief role description for a president and the treasurer.
President
The role of DAMA Chapter President requires a small amount of time and a bit of planning, a bit of admin and a bit of coordination. Add to that - at least some background and interest in Data Management and you have a role which could really be filled by any of our members.
For the investment of your time in organising and promoting this professional development “self help” group you get: opportunities to meet a broad range of IT professionals from across the APS and private industry; invitations to presentations covering common technical and business issues; and opportunities to expand your personal network and contacts. You can also take opportunities to develop your own presentation skills (although you should avoid getting carried away - and bad jokes ...... apparently).
Treasurer
DAMA Canberra has organised with the Canberra office of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) for them to take on the membership and other administration functions that the Treasurer has previously performed. Though there will remain oversight and reporting requirements, the Treasurer's task will be much simpler and it is hoped that members get much better service than they have in the past!
Please think about getting involved and helping out - the Committee needs fresh input and new perspectives.
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Tuesday 19 August 2008
5:30 - 5:45pm - AGM
5:45 - 6:30pm - Roundtable Discussion
6:30 - 7:00pm - Drinks
7:00 - 9:00pm - Dinner
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Rydges Lakeside
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Parking available at back of hotel
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Please email Andrew Smailes at by COB Friday 15 August.
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DAMA Canberra Chapter
PO Box 1705
Tuggeranong ACT 2901
E-mail:
President - Andy Peyton
Organisation: Dept of Health & Ageing
Voice: 0413 311 340
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Vice President - Leah Matthews
Organisation: Medicare Australia
Voice: 6124 6570
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Treasurer - Andrew Smailes
Organisation: Dept of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Voice: 6233 8640 / 0408 645 475
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Webmaster - Andy Peyton
Voice: 0413 311 340
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Immediate Past President - Peter Davis
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Committee Members
Cathy Davies - Dept of Veterans' Affairs
David Hough - Dept of Immigration and Citizenship
David Jaques-Watson - Formation Data |
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| Date |
Presentation |
Speaker |
| June 2008 |
Standard Business Reporting Program |
Paul Madden - Treasury |
| April 2008 |
Data Intelligence - Data Warehouse Lifecycle Management |
Steve Hitchman, Management Information Principles (MIP) |
| Mar 2008 |
11th Metadata Openforum and ISO Data Management and Interchange standards |
Don Bartley (ABS) |
| Feb 2008 |
Case study on Wiki development |
Pascale Kelly |
| Dec 2007 |
Christmas Dinner at Ottoman Restaurant |
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| Nov 2007 |
National Data Network |
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| Sep 2007 |
Developing Data Matrices for Customer Data |
Dirk Schluter and Heikki Malmberg (Centrelink) |
more...
| July 2007 |
Document Verification Service (VFS) & National Identification Security Strategy (NISS) |
Wayne Colless, Attorney-General’s Department |
| June 2007 |
DIAC IT redevelopment program |
Steve Wootten & David Hough, DIAC |
| Apr 2007 |
Technical Metadata Standards Topics and Experiences with Open Source 11179 Metadata products |
Don Bartley, Chief Technology Officer, Branch Head (Technology Research Branch), Technology Services Division, ABS & Zoltan Partosh, Applications Developer/Programmer |
| Feb 2007 |
Achieving support from Senior Management for Data Management |
Papiya Chakravarti, Director, Data Management Section, Data Services Branch at Centrelink |
| Dec 2006 |
Rochade Support for Metadata Management |
Dennis Doolette, Rochade |
| Nov 2006 |
The Role of Information Architecture within Enterprise Architecture |
Philip Hind, Chief Knowledge Officer with the Australian Taxation Office |
| Oct 2006 |
10th Anniversary Dinner |
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| Mar 2006 |
Networking at the Boathouse Restaurant |
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| Dec 2005 |
Databases, XML, and the Semantic Web |
Jim Melton |
| Dec 2005 |
Roundtable Discussion on Data Management Issues & Achievements in 2005 |
Representatives from various organisations |
| Oct 2005 |
DAMA National Conference |
Click on the CONFERENCE link on the left for further details. |
| Jun 2005 |
Probabilistic Deduplication, Data Linkage & Geocoding |
Dr Peter Christen |
| Mar 2005 |
Data Profiling |
Russell Best, MIP |
| Dec 2004 |
Round table discussion & Christmas
Party |
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| Nov 2004 |
Metadata Implementer Group |
Don Bartley, ABS |
| Sep 2004 |
Trends in Data Integration |
Andrew Lampitt, Sunopis |
| May 2004 |
Enterprise Architecture at HIC |
Steve Nolan, HIC |
| Mar 2004 |
Interoperability |
Tony Judge, NOEI |
| Dec 2003 |
Round table discussion & Christmas
Party |
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| Nov 2003 |
Corporate Metadata Repositories |
Dan Gillman, US BLS |
| Nov 2003 |
Data Modelling Seminar |
Rob Smith-Roberts, OODW |
| Sep 2003 |
ISO Metadata Standards |
Don Bartley, ABS |
| Aug 2003 |
Information Architecture |
Phillip Sloper, Defence |
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