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