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201620172018
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Investigation PhaseTesting and Evaluation PhasePilot ImplementationAssessment and planning
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Kick off virtual meeting with project personel and partner institutions
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Advisory board meeting for investigation phase
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Collect and evaluate baseline data from fields with controlled vocabularies from partner institutions
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Capture baseline metadata from partner collections, and save for assessment activities
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Explore using EAC-CPF, OWL, and SKOS standards to create and represent relationships between entities within the controlled vocabulary
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Virtual meetings with partners to evaluate standards
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Summarize and communicate findings from first phase of work
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Advisory board meeting for testing and evaluation phase
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Develop a scoring model and evaluation criteria for open source software that supportes LOD vocabulary creation and maintenence
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Evaluate open source software that can be used to create, maintain, and make available the data contained in a compiled regional controlled vocabulary
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Virtual meetings with partners to evaluate software
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Develop plan for pilot and full evaluation of selected software
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Advisory board meeting for pilot implementation phase
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Perform full evaluation of selected software - harvest, standardize, reconcile, and import controlled vocabulary information into the software of choice and make data available as LOD
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Hire and train student assistant to facilitate data entry, vocabulary reconciliation and enrichment, research, vocabulary maintentence, and assessment tasks.
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Enrich data with relationships and collections holding information.
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Explore the possibility of setting up an OpenRefine reconciliation service for the vocabulary
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Develop and revise collaborative workflows
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Virtual meetings with partners to revise workflows
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Advisory board meeting for assessment and planning phase
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Assess the outcomes of the project by reviewing workflow, identifying training opportunities, and exploring the impact of the centralized vocabulary on users of local digital asset management systems, regional digital library collaboratives (e.g., MWDL), and national level digital library efforts (e.g., DPLA).
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Capture and assess data on the percentage of names not in a national authority file, the number of names unique to one institution, and number of relationships we are able to express with the vocabulary.
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Develop a plan for expanding the controlled vocabulary to more institutions.
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Write executive summary of project for MWDL Board and Digitization committee
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Virtual meetings with partners for assessment and wrap-up
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Advisory board meeting for project wrap-up
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Present project at one or more national conferences
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