IHDC Project Proposal Timeline/Items

By June 1

· CLIP/Amana/Czech/IWA/St Ambrose/Drake description & links to/from IHDC website up

· goal for number of entries established

· compound objects & image “branding” implemented

· UI Maps, African American, & Scott Co Historical begin entering data

· install Multiserver software to link UI/Drake/St Ambrose/Davenport?

· set metadata training day

· Present project to Iowa OCLC Users May 28, Claudia/Nancy

By July 1

· Add Grinnell Public? Simpson College? Others? to IHDC; Some to Drake server?

· Hold training session for new pilot project participants

· Begin to identify training needs/methods (metadata, scanning etc./in classroom, onsite/web-based, train trainers?)

· begin developing training manual

By August 1

· Draft training manual completed

· Metadata charts completed for: Artifacts, artwork, audio, documents, photographs, maps, video, other?

· IT/Website links to/from all pilot project collections & IHDC website

· Survey work: Instruments drafted and tested (use current participants), finalize at August meeting

By November 1

· Surveys conducted and analyzed

· Identify any additional work

· Add pilot project sites from western Iowa?

By December 1

· Written report on survey results

· Outline project proposal components/assign sections

· Identify possible funding sources

By January 1, 2005

· Project proposal draft completed