Project Objectives


Goals & Objectives

 

Our project aims to realize the following goals:

· To provide the IS community with an informatics resource in the form of a wiki

· To explore different informatics communities, resources, and opportunities

· To engage/encourage participation from the UCLA IS community (IS faculty, students, staff, librarians, alumni) in the realization of an informatics community

· To publicize the work, accomplishments and research of the UCLA informatics community so that our program can rise in influence and relevance

 

Our project has the following objectives:

· Evaluation of wiki resource through surveys, usability studies, etc.

· The group would like to learn:

1. How to build a wiki

2. How to construct ontologies

3. How to develop and conduct usability studies

4. How to market wikis

5. How to build community

 

Timeline (dates are tentative)

· Our first official group meeting occurred on 6/28/06 from 4:30 – 5:30 pm

· The group will meet every two weeks to discuss project progress and deliverables

· The first iteration of the wiki with populated content is set for July 12th

· The second iteration will be scheduled for August 9th

· The first usability test will be performed the week of August 16th

· Changes to the wiki based on this test will occur by August 30th

· User manual will be delivered by September 13th

 

Deliverables

· Informatics wiki

· Bi-weekly status reports to Professor Blanchette including a project management outline of tasks completed

· Wiki user resource manual