Project Updates
Project Update, May 2016 - October 2016
The first phase of the project centered on building out infrastructure, setting up regular meetings for project participants, getting feedback from the advisory board, collecting metadata from project participants, and exploring standards and reporting out at regional and national conferences. In addition, Jeremy and Anna were invited to take part in the IMLS Shareable Authorities Forum to be held at Cornell University, and have been participating in working groups and the planning committee associated with that project.
Primary activities for investigation phase were:
Additional updates
Current site technical infrastructure
- Google site for broad communication about project has been developed and in active use.
- We created a shared google drive for project participants to upload data
- Google documents backed up in an Open Science Framework site
Project Update, November 2016 –April 2017
The second phase of the project centered on developing our evaluation criteria and testing for tools to use for vocabulary management. While we are not done with our tools testing phase as originally planned, we are on track to finish that up in the next several weeks. In addition, we’ve started some additional projects that will lead to greater efficiencies with our planned work in the final year of the project. We have a graduate student assistant in place, who is currently reconciling our data set.
Project Update, May 2017 – October 2017
The activities in the previous phase of the grant that focused on testing open source software for vocabulary management were more time consuming than originally anticipated in the grant proposal. In addition new areas of work emerged, leading to some of the planned activities originally outlined below not being completed. During this phase of the project we have also articulated additional work for the WNAF project partners centering on metadata corrections and NACO enhancements.
Additional Work Areas