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Revision as of 10:20, August 13, 2012
Project Goals
Editorial history
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Contents
[hide]Purpose of this page
This page sets out the primary goals of the project. It also suggests standards by which we should measure our performance against these goals and seeks a discussion of these proposed standards and measurement processes with the project team
Suggested links
Project Goals
What have we said?
Our website: "MarineLives is an innovative academic project for the collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary manuscripts, which were originated in the High Court of Admiralty, London, 1650-1669. The end product will be a publicly and freely available online academic edition."
Two primary goals
- Content: Delivery of a public and freely available online academic edition (within reasonable time)
- Process: Develop and demonstrate effective innovative approach to collaborative transcription, linkage and enrichment of primary documents
Suggested standards
Content
- Quality of textual output
- Quantity of textual output
Process
- Creativeness, effectiveness and efficiency of project process
Energy
- Unanticipated benefits
Possible measurement
Content
- Nominate named expert individuals in advance, not directly involved in the project, to assess the quality of the content?
- Who?
- Benchmark the quality and quantity of the content against other reference content; the reference content to be agreed in advance?
- What content? How define quality?
- Willingness of academics to formally cite content from MarineLives project?
- Self-evaluation by team members of quality of content?
Process
- Creativeness:
- Evaluation by named expert individuals of project processes?
- Self-evaluation by team members of creativity of project processes?
- Effectiveness:
- Deliver desired content goals?
- Objective feedback solicited from team members following conclusion of the project regarding the project experience?
- Efficiency:
- Output relative to input costs (total monetary costs; and money equivalent of volunteer time and other resources voluntarily made available to the project)?
- Extent to which rework is avoided in the project?
Energy
- Undergraduate dissertation topics influenced by involvement of undergraduate project associates in MarineLives?
- Journals article submitted and approved making reference to the MarineLives project?
- Year thirteen student admissions to university assisted by involvement of school students in MarineLives?
- Potential funders (individuals and/or companies and/or institutions) approach core team following project seeking to explore possible funding of a project extension or project spinoff?
- Desire of project participants to work together again?
Questions to project team
- What transcription productivity targets should we set ourselves?
- Individual productivity?
- Facilitator team productivity?
- Minutes/hours per standard page for first cut unedited transcription?
- Minutes/hours per standard page for first full edit?
- Minutes/hours per standard page for page signoff?
- How should we expect productivity of individuals and teams to change over fourteen week project?