Using a cooperative model where working groups and committees work together toward a common goal, the SNAC Cooperative builds reliable descriptions of people, families, and organizations that link to and provide a contextual understanding of historical records. Groups and committees meet periodically to work on mostly self-directed projects aimed at improving SNAC overall by helping researchers discover primary source documents by linking them across time and place.
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Administration
Director: Daniel Pitti, University of Virginia
Technology Lead: Jason Jordan, University of Virginia
Operations Committee
Coordinator: Jerry Simmons
Daniel Pitti
Bernetiae Reed
Diana Marsh
Scotty Beland
Betts Coup
Technical Infrastructure Working Group
Chair: Currently open... apply here!
The Technology Infrastructure Group has four primary roles. 1) Based on recommendations from the Editorial Policy and Standards Group, the Technology Group provides consultation, feedback, and develop specifications for implementing policy requirements. 2) The Technology Group also evaluates and recommend computational batch data refinement when needed across the entire SNAC corpus. 3) It identifies member data refinement needs and refinement tool opportunities that would benefit members in improving the quality of local data that is related to SNAC data. 4) Finally, it works with the Technology Lead in working with outside developers that are building or planning to build SNAC editing and data exchange tools using the SNAC API.
Editorial Standards Working Group
Chair: Betts Coup
The Editorial Policy and Standards Group’s responsibilities include developing editorial policy and standards to ensure reliable, consistent, and sourced (based on cited evidence) description of CPF entities, and the quality of controlled terms used in the description.
Outreach Working Group
Chair: Scotty Beland
The Outreach Group facilitates outreach, information sharing, and the use of SNAC as a reference tool. Responsibilities include assessment and creation of both internal and external communication plans for the SNAC Cooperative. The Group is also responsible for creating communication materials to be used by the Cooperative in wider outreach efforts, including increasing awareness of: SNACSchool and Train-the-Trainer programs, SNAC initiatives and technical releases, and SNAC as a research resource for reference professionals and researchers. Finally, the Group collates user, member, and researcher feedback for the Cooperative.
SNACSchool Committee
Jerry Simmons
Jodi Berkowitz
Betts Coup
Kit Messick
Becca Morgan
Marisa Bourgoin
Sara Schliep
SNACSchool has four primary roles: developing training materials for editors, developing effective methods of training, training editors, and training trainers.
