Proposed Testing Process
- Collaborative Testing Partner Launch Meeting (half day, July 2021)
- Set up Omeka S installation (July - August, 2021)
- Review model documentation
- Work with IT staff and OTG team as required or needed according to institutional situation
- Review existing holdings to select a testing universe of documents (July - August, 2021)
- Target: 5-10 documents for as many event types as possible (Not all collections will have material related to all event types)
- Develop workflow for creating event description using the Single Class Model, and to create items for related people and locations (July - August, 2021)
- Create Omeka S items related to your selected testing universe (September - December 2021)
- For each description session, fill out the testing documentation form:
- Summarize the records and identify the item types involved
- Estimate the time involved in creating the description
- Reflect on the fit of the descriptive properties in the model with the content in the sources
- Reflect on the adequacy of workflows and interface support
- Reflect on any points of confusion in the process
- Reflect on any elements of the content within the sources that is not adequately captured in the model
- Other general comments
- Monthly, review the source documents and resultant items with the project historian on the team to assess the fitness of the model for representing the content. Historians will complete an assessment form.
- Participate in monthly, hour-long Testing Partner meetings
- For each description session, fill out the testing documentation form:
- Participate in feedback synthesis and revision planning session (half day, January 2022)
- Conduct a second session of testing with the revised model using the same source material (February and April 2022)
- Participate in a final review and revision meeting (potentially in-person, a day and a half, May 2022)
- Celebrate the release of the model (June 2022)