[xtm-wg] RE: XTM-UCS: Collate and Glossary

["Bryan Thompson" <bryan-pop@cog-tech.com>]

Patrick,

I would like to see if any other people step forward and how much volume
this survey generates.  Half the task will be just extracting the responses
from the XTM archives.  The raw data format can be just a table whose
columns correspond to the questions.  Beyond that we should read through the
suggested use cases and make some initial decision about which distinct
descriptions are actually the same use case.  We can model that by adding
columns that correspond to the abstract use case descriptions (the Topic
identifier, if you will) and that indicate which use case description (the
Topic occurrence) corresponds to which abstract use case.  Easier to do than
do describe clearly, I'm afraid.

The people who analyze it can always transform it from there.

The one thing that we didn't do is set a deadline - we should re-post the
survey in a few days with a deadline notice....  Maybe a deadline for the
initial survey of 31Aug2000?

Ann has offered to take first pass at the collated data, which sounds great
to me.  I think that Peter and some others will want to be tightly in the
loop with her on that....

-bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Durusau [mailto:pdurusau@emory.edu]
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 3:26 PM
To: Bryan Thompson
Cc: xtm-ucs@cog-tech.com
Subject: XTM-UCS: Collate and Glossary

Bryan,

If you want to suggest a format for collating the survey data I would be
willing to share collating duties with one or more other members of the
group. I don't have the cycles to handle it solo. And then only for members
of the actual working group or related XTM community. Obviously I would put
a higher priority on those responses than on ones that are sent in from
more public type announcements.

To keep us all on the same page, however, I would be willing to be
responsible for a glossary of technical terms that are used in either the
survey data or our report. I have order the Soma book from Amazon and can
keep a running file with definitions that we can vet with the rest of the
group before making it part of our announcements. That will probably mean
that I will have to contact respondents if it appears they are using terms
in a non-standard way. No guarantee that it will be read or used but it may
help us be more precise while we wait for other people to stop speaking so
we can talk. ;-)

Patrick

Bryan Thompson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Would anyone in XTM-UCS like to offer to collect and collate the survey
> data?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -bryan
>
> Bryan Thompson
> Executive Vice President
> Cognitive Technologies, Inc.
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> bryan@cog-tech.com

--
Patrick Durusau
Director of Research and Development
Society of Biblical Literature
pdurusau@emory.edu


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