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Oregon Encyclopedia

last updated on Tue, 11/25/2008 - 10:39

Contents

1. General Information
   1. Description

   2. Purpose and goal of the project
   3. Client contact
   4. Personnel
2. Scope and Scale
   
   1. Customer

   2. Users/ audience
   3. Scope
   4. Partners
3. Architecture / Design
   
   1. Project Specification

   2. Requirements
   3. Project home and resource storage
   4. Related projects

4. Project status
   
   1. Timeline

General Information

Description

The Oregon Encyclopedia Project seeks to be the first ever Oregon encyclopedia, and will include coverage of significant people, events, places, institutions, and more in Oregon's history. The OEP will cover such topics from as far back as 10,000 years ago, to the present.

Purpose and goal of the project

The purpose of the Oregon Encyclopedia Project is to create a central location where Oregon specific historical information can be documented. The OEP seeks to create an authoritative resource that brings together three senior editors, an experienced editorial staff, and twenty-two specialists from across the state. All entries and essays will be written by knowledgeable authors, reviewed by experts, and authorized by editors and fact-checkers to assure accuracy. Authors will be able to upload factual information, which is then review by others. It will contain information about many different hamlets, towns, cities, counties and regions of Oregon. It will contain articles on specific ethnic groups, communities as well as information about arts, music, popular culture, and more. The Encyclopedia will also feature large amounts of user uploaded images, documents, and maps. All of this information will in turn be made available to the public.

Client contact

Val Ballestrem
Editorial Assistant
Oregon Encyclopedia of H&C
Valb@ohs.org

Marianne Keddington-Lang
Managing Editor
Oregon Historical Society
MariannK@ohs.org

Bill Lang
Editor in Chief
PSU History Dept.
langw@pdx.edu

Personnel

Jon Beare

Scope and Scale

Customer

Users/ audience

free resource for anyone with access to the World Wide Web

Scope

Partners

PSU (Portland State University)
OHS (Oregon Historical Society)

Architecture/Design

Project Specification

Requirements

Project home and resource storage

Research Page

Related Projects

Project status

Timeline

Jun. 2007- First version of website will be up and running
Feb. 2009- Finished product, in time for Oregon's 150th birthday