We must shortly take our subject grouping proposal to faculties for consultation. Having done as much as we could in the project team, including rework based on student feedback, we now need to share the findings with key staff in the faculties (and schools) for their input. The following key messages should help set the scene and keep the conversations constructive.
- Our guiding objective has been "findability" for senior secondary school students (our primary audience group), meaning how directly and accurately can they find specific subjects (of their choice, in tasks set by us and also subjects to study to work in a certain career/field)
- We have used sensible/logical groupings of subjects under the working title of "topic"
- Some topics have been grouped under the working title of "megatopic"
- In some cases there is a reasonable resemblance to a Faculty or School, but often this is less than perfect (which is okay with us and users)
- We have worked long and hard with the information available to us, being the current subject listings for the web and in publications, the 2015 Calendar, and the subject descriptions on both Homesite and Faculty and School sites.
- The taxonomy itself does not illustrate the soft and hard linking options available to us, so (until we have prototypes) these are recorded in a table and will be shared in consultation
- We will have made mistakes, omissions, and been unaware of changes in the pipeline and F&S staff can help correct these mistakes.
- Our calls are all open to challenge, in that we are not experts in these fields.