EDC Project Schedule
Phase 1: Digitization and Planning
- Digitized and provided cataloguers with access to notebook images
- Digitized Museum images
- Selected films for digitization
- Completed metadata crosswalk between the collections
- Defined the Edgerton database
- Defined the architecture for a federated search
- Began to understand what assets are available and which we have to add
- Created an "In-Progress" site for Foundation members
- Formalize user requirements for June 2009 web site
- Begin to define copyright and usage statements
- To do: set up server hosting arrangements with IS&T
Phase 2: Data Presentation, roll-out June 2009
Users will be able to:
- Learn about Doc (website articles, images)
- View and read notebook pages (present images in larger format)
- Search across collections
- Login for users (simple identification)
- Transcribe notebook pages (independent wiki) - with a link to relevant page image
- The same website will be available to visitors of the MIT Museum via public kiosks (July-Aug 2009)
Phase 3: Enhanced User Interaction, future
- Capture user stories and images
- Annotate/tag assets (folksonomies)
Priorities
This page describes functional priorities to achieve the scheduled goals.