3. Activities and Progress - continued

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3.2 Achievement of project objectives to date

“What have been your main objectives or targets during the period and how far have you been able to meet them?” [4]

The following table details the milestones to date in the Project Plan, their due date and the progress that has been made towards accomplishing them:

Milestone Date Progress
Project start date 1 Dec 95 All staff in place except Project Leader, who took up post on 3rd January 1996
50 records 22 Apr 96 Achieved
100 records 1 Jul 96 Achieved
Metadata report 29 Jul 96 Behind schedule; estimated completion late August 96
Survey report 31 Jul 96 Behind schedule; estimated completion late August 96
200 records 15 Aug 96 On target

3.3 Outputs

Have you produced any outputs from your activities (such as materials, publicity, reports etc.?)

The following outputs are copyright The Surrey Institute of Art & Design on behalf of the ADAM Project Consortium 1996 unless otherwise stated.

3.3.1 Internal Reports

  • IAFA Report: A brief overview and evaluation of the IAFA templates as used by the current eLib Access to Network Resources Projects in assessment of their suitability for use in the ADAM Project, Rebecca Bradshaw
  • ROADS - First Impressions, Mark Burrell
  • Selecting resources for inclusion in a WWW based information gateway database: The ADAM Project, Rebecca Bradshaw
  • Strategy for Use of Vocabulary in the ADAM Database (Draft), Rebecca Bradshaw
  • Proposal for a set of Cataloguing Rules for the ADAM Database, Rebecca Bradshaw
  • Cataloguing Rules for the ADAM Database: a Procedural Manual, Rebecca Bradshaw
  • ADAM Consultation Phase I Survey Methodology, Alison Ferry
  • ADAM Consultation Phase I: Evaluation of Findings (Draft), Alison Ferry

3.3.2 Published Papers

  • Tony Gill, “The ADAM Project”, Learning Resources Journal Vol. 12 No. 2, June 1996, ISSN: 0268-2125
  • Tony Gill, “A Project Called ADAM”, Ariadne Issue 3, May 1996, ISSN: 1361-3200 (paper) & 1361-3197 (electronic)
  • Tony Gill, “The ADAM Project”, ARLIS News-Sheet Issue 121, July/August 1996, ISSN: 0308-809X

3.4 Notable achievements

Do you have any particular successes to report?

  • Running a rudimentary but functional service less than three months from the Project's official start date, and less than one month from the delivery of the server.
  • A significant and detailed survey of our potential user community comprising a non-probabilistic sample of 710 responses.
  • Production of a descriptive web site that won the eLib “Best Project Web Pages” competition 1996.

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