This weekend I travel to Galway to work with Emmet. I’ve forgotten to work my miles out and get trees planted - tut. I will have to do that fast upon my return. Anyhow, we’re going to get on with a bunch of stuff. We’ve both been very busy since our last meeting, so it will be great to get some new focus and in a new place setting - that is, for me.
The two main areas I’ve been concentrating on since I last saw Emmet are qualitative fieldwork and specialist meetings. For the qualitative fieldwork I’ve been carrying out voluminous amounts of reading and note taking. Some of it has been pouring over old notes, but a lot has been about consuming new books that have been recommended. The books have given very good examples about such things as coding soft data and using drawings to retrieve memory. From this reading, and also from mentorship, I have decided that after the focus session, (which I do not have a date for yet) I am going to run the one-to-one interviews. Workshops, of which there will be one or two, will follow the interviews.
With regards to the specialist meetings, I have one lined up for next Wednesday and another two in the pipeline. Next Wednesday’s meeting is with the Cornwall Wildlife Trust. It will last two hours with the goal of determining how point data and polygon data can be accessed, if needs, by theirwork. There are problems with both types of data, and the problems are of copyright.
Recorders collect the point data across the county of Cornwall. The Cornwall Wildlife Trust is the custodian of the data but the original CR lies with the recorder. This means, if theirwork wants to display any species data, the recorder has to be contacted.
The polygon data is tied up with Ordnance Survey CR. Say no more - watch this space.
The Cornwall Wildlife Trust will help us address these issues, and are keen to help with the project. They are willing to work one step at a time.
The other two meetings that are nearly lined up are with community facilitators/qualitative researchers. Once these are in place the focus session can take place, and then we can start collecting and experimenting with soft data.
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