As discussed in the call last week (July 20th), I had some alternative thoughts on the categories chosen to sort our triage spreadsheet, while very much appreciating the amount of work Lisa and Susan have already done on it.  Chuck asked me if I could come up with an alternative, as he did not want to slow down to tinker with the categories, which everyone might select differently.  Accordingly, I have come up with what I hope is a framework of categories that relies more on the type of potential requirement (eg. function, technical, legal, etc) rather than keywords.  I have put almost all of the other groups into what I think are the logical slots in my proposed framework, and included a column for keywords if people really want to search by word phrases.

I hope this may be useful. We are likely to be working with this document for a long time, so I think the sorting framework which we ultimately use may be more important than it appears at first glance.  It is really a coding mechanism for qualitative analysis, so it could introduce bias into our results if we are not careful.  My rough attempt obviously reflects my own analysis of how to sort the data, and as Chuck mentioned, each person would pick keywords differently, but I hope you agree after reading it that the matter deserves a bit more reflection.  I would be happy to answer any questions.

Stephanie Perrin