| HILT
Deliverables |
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| Months
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Deliverables
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| Sept-Nov |
1.
Initial survey and review of the UK and international literature on
the issue of high level subject terminologies and their inter-relationships,
and of expert UK and international opinion on problems, solutions
and strategies related to the topic. |
| Sept-Oct |
2.
Devise a comprehensive list of all major UK stakeholders. |
| Sept-Post
Project |
3.
Development and implementation of a dissemination and feedback strategy
for the project, the aim of which would be to inform these stakeholders
on project progress and obtain ongoing input from them (web-site,
e-list, possibly a newsletter if any participants will have difficulties
accessing the web-site and the e-list). |
| Oct-Feb |
4.
Report on each stakeholder’s perspective on the problem and related
issues - the subject schemes they use (including those related to
more specific subject areas), the elements of the problem from their
viewpoints, their needs as regards integration of any UK solution
with international schemes, their views on which, if any, existing
universal schemes they see as potentially offering a solution or partial
solution to either the question of international integration, or the
cross-searching or browsing problem, or both. |
| Feb-March |
5.
Extended version of deliverable 1 based on additional research informed
by the results of deliverable 4 and offering a more complete view
of available knowledge and opinion on the issue. |
| Jan-March |
7.
Report of a survey of literature, projects, organisations, and individuals
to determine current views on best practice in respect of both user
and machine oriented interfaces both to thesauri and to subject terminologies
generally. |
| Jan-March |
8.
Draft report on the findings of the project to date, organising, evaluating
and analysing the data, identifying a range of possible approaches
to the various issues raised, and making draft recommendations on
the best approach to the problem (or whether it is resolvable at all). |
| April |
9.
Awareness raising in the stakeholder communities through dissemination
of the draft report and a request for feedback and comment. |
| May |
10.
Major workshop in the MODELS series, this to include breakout sessions
on key issues identified in the draft report. |
| May-July |
11.
Wide dissemination of workshop outcomes in the form of a new draft
of the report. |
| May-June |
12.
Penultimate draft of the report. |
| October
and June-July |
13.
Report of the external evaluator. |
| July-August |
14.
Final report and recommendations, incorporating the external evaluation
report itself and, if appropriate, any changes it proposes. |
