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When I first started thinking seriously about these OFC ideas back in 2004, I set about trying to turn an intuitive art into a clear repeatable process. I produced three documents\u00a0 of which only the White Paper<\/a> has appeared in this blog. The other two are essentially draft documents which have not been properly tested and refined; however, I\u2019ve decided to include them here as they do at least provide an indication of the sort of detailed activities that OFC entails. They are a Service List<\/a> and a Process List<\/a>. Both incorporate the notion of charging for the service \u2013 though that is by-the-way; I no longer have any ambitions to create a business, though I would dearly like to be able to try out my ideas on some real world collections of objects which belong to someone else and with which I am not already familiar. The OFC exercises documented within this blog have been informative but are almost certainly not sufficient to be able to define a fully generalisable process.<\/p>\n

I have<\/u> applied OFC techniques to one set of material that was not my own: it consisted of 6 large egg boxes containing the stamp collection of an old friend\u2019s mother who had died. My friend is not a stamp collector and was having trouble disposing of the collection. I am a stamp collector so I was excited by the prospect of both exploring the collection and having the opportunity to apply some\u00a0 OFC techniques. In my first encounter with the material I took about three hours to go through it all, divide it up into the major categories, and get an overall picture of what it consisted of. I agreed with my friend that I would sell the material through Ebay, so subsequently sorted it into sub-categories that I thought would interest potential buyers. I ended up with approximately 37 Lots which I proceeded to sell on Ebay over a 3 week period. For each Lot I took photographs and wrote a description for it\u2019s Ebay entry; and I managed what I was doing in a Word document which contained the following information for each Lot:<\/p>\n