What's in the Document Archive?

Almost every major document produced during the course of our work on the project is listed here. This Archive serves as our record of where we have been. Documents that we use frequently are housed here for easy access. Some "documents" in this list are actually web page addresses; these are noted with a special icon ( ).

Table of Contents

      About the Project
      Authoring in Pachyderm
      Grant-Related Documents
      Historical Documents
      Metadata Team's Support Documents
      Papers & Presentations
      Programming Team's Support Documents
      Requirements Documents & Supporting Materials
      Team Timelines & Milestones
      User Interface Team's Support Documents
      User Studies

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About the Project

Official One-page Project Description (69k)
2006 Pachyderm Brochure (212k)
2005 Pachyderm Brochure (1.4 MB)
Project Web & Email Addresses (43k)
First Semiannual Report to IMLS (April 2004) (132k)
September 2004 Project Update (74k)
November 2004 Project Update (62k)
March 2005 Project Update (61k)
November 2005 Project Update (33k)
March 2006 Project Update (39k)
Pachyderm Advisory Council Charter (41k)
May 2006 Project Update (41k)

Authoring in Pachyderm

Pachyderm 2.0 User Manual (525k)
Pachyderm 2.0 Template Workbook (44k)
Discussion of Asset File Types (16k)
Authoring Storyboards (blank; v. 1.0) (59k)
Instructions for Pachyderm Frame Editor (Beta) (36k)
Pachyderm Template Overview (618k)
New Improved Pachyderm Template Overivew (971k)
Guidelines for Sharing Accounts   (29k)

Grant-Related Documents

Official One-Page Project Description (69k)
IMLS Abstract (285k)
IMLS Grant Award Press Release (92k)
Initial Project Timeline (124k)
Initial Institutional Partners (42k)
IMLS Report on Outcomes-Based Evaluation (224k)

Historical Documents

The What, Why and How of a Custom Authoring and Publishing System: The Creation of Pachyderm (from Spectra, the newsletter of the Museum Computer Network)
SFMOMA Request for Partnership with NMC (115k)
Specifications for Pachyderm 1.0 (124k)
Original Pachyderm Request for Proposals (129k)

Metadata Team's Support Documents and Files

Discussion of Metadata & Issues (141k)

Papers & Presentations

Pachyderm Presentations List
Taking Teaching by the Tusks: Introducing Pachyderm 2.0 (638k)
Shaping Pachyderm 2.0 with User Requirements (120k)
Architecting the Elephant: Software Architecture and User Interface Design for Pachyderm 2.0 (155k)
(the preceding three papers were presented at Museums and the Web 2005 in Vancouver, April 13-16)

Programming Team's Support Documents and Files

Pachyderm/APOLLO Combined Architecture (187k)
Prioritized List of Templates (9k)
Requirements Needing Further Research for Implementation in APOLLO (102k)
Pachyderm 2.0 Alpha (Codename: Rhino)
Rhino Installation Instructions (103k)
SFMOMA FMPro Database MS Visio Diagram (97k)
Pachyderm Database MS Visio Diagram (421k)
Flash Demo of New Templates (Macromedia Flash file)
How to Author a New Template by D'Arcy Norman  (740k)

Requirements Documents and Supporting Materials

Pachyspec 1.5 (May 19, 2004) (1MB)
Requirements Document Addendum 04-19-04 (19k)
Requirements Document Draft (788k)
Requirements Tracker
Requirements Source Document Index (299k)
Prioritizing Requirements for Pachyderm (85k)
Scoping Requirements for Pachyderm (87k)
Pachyderm Personae (90k)
Pachyderm Scenarios (350k)
Using Scenarios Handout (54k)
Summary of Template Requirements (35k)
Template Redesign Requirements (41k)
Template Redesign Requirements (Flash) (288k)
Template Redesign Requirements (Updated) (540k)
Bare Bones Media Management (32k)

Team Timelines & Milestones

Project Workplan (133k)
Key Requirements Team Workplan (80k)
Programming Team Workplan (12k)
User Interface & Pedagogy Team Workplan (28k)
Key Scoping Decisions (Annotated) (63k)
San Francisco Outcomes (Feb 2004) (35k)
Beta Concept Document (33k)
Documentation Team Workplan (550k)
Usability Team Workplan (325k)

User Interface Team's Support Documents and Files

Usability Team Development Area
Template Overview Handout (648k)
Samis' Discussion of the Templates (243k)
Pachyderm Things (JPG Image, 151k)
New Template Names (61k)
Conducting User Preference Tests (23k)
Usability Engineering in Pachyderm 2.0 (25k)

User Studies

Focus Group Summary (CDL) (40k)
Maricopa Dialogue Day Notes (88k)
Metropolitan Museum of Art Usability Study (152k)
Class Observation Notes (189k)
Reader Questionnaire for Pachyspec 1.5 (68k)
Pachyderm Requirements Survey Results (72k)
Heuristic Evaluation of Authoring System by CUDA (99k)
Heuristic Evaluation of Authoring System, Annotated (74k)
Usability Report for Pachyderm Beta (624k)
Heuristic Evaluation for Pachyderm (#2) by CUDA (870k)