UPDATE for MEG, 1st March

[carolynwhite2]

Would one of you passing elves pick this up and take over to MEG?

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PROGRESS ON CATALOGUING PROJECT AS AT 1st March 2005

The group has now catalogued 57131 posts in total, including the old
Yahoo Club. We have reached post 42800 on the main list - meaning we
have coded 2800 posts in February. In the process, we have rejected 
26786 posts - 54.3% of the total coded. 

The group currently has 26 members, of which 16 are actively coding.

The coding progress has slowed in the last week as the group is 
engaged in a complete review of all the posts so far categorised. Our 
main conclusion is that individual posts have been classified to too 
many categories, making sections less focused than we had expected. 
It is a simple process to put this right, but the review is likely to 
take a further week or so before we can continue coding. 

On the technical front, Paul, Tim & Carolyn have had a conference 
call to discuss the screen designs for the user interface and other 
technical issues. There were three outcomes - (a) a decision to 
reduce the number of headings used in the category list, to ensure 
catalogue searches did not time out before completing (action - 
Carolyn); (b) an agreement to produce a list of technical 
requirements for the server the catalogue will require (action - 
Paul); (c) an undertaking to produce the next iteration of the UI 
design by March 24th (action - Tim).

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