Case Study Committee Workplan

Timeline

• 18 November 2011 : FORSYS participants submit STSM opportunities to wiki
• Mar - Apr 2012 : Case study technical committee (CSTC) develops example cases
• May (Zvolen meeting) : CSTC reports on progress and coordinates work with other WGs
• Sept 2012 : CSTC representatives participate in Wiki Task Force meeting; discuss how to integrate cases into semantic wiki
• Oct 2012: CSTC provides develops & tests case input form for semantic wiki
• Nov 2012: CSTC solicits short cases from Forsys participants
• Nov 2012 - Jan 2013 : CSTC follow up on potential cases, answer any questions, provide feedback on drafts
• Feb 2013 : CTSC meets to review and synthesize cases for presentation/publication/contributing to FORSYS guidelines
• Mar 2013: CSTC finishes case synthesis article to inform broader FORSYS guidelines
• April 2013 : Selected cases and synthesis presented at Umea conference
• (technically have until 3 months after end of project (4/2013) to complete all project work)

Develop case study examples and guidelines

• Develop semantic form for entering case studies into the wiki
• Figure out how cases will contribute to final Forsys guidelines

Manage case study contributions

• Solicit case studies from the Forsys network
• Review and comment on case studies submitted
• Answer questions, resolve issues

Use of published literature

• Assuming institutionalization of the wiki and not of the Cost Action per se, it does not matter whether a forsys member has delivered a case or a case study. Of course it does for the record of the Action, so a separate tag “Forsys member” should do.
• This is a good point. The initial thinking is that these will be stored in different data structures: the wiki for forsys cases and a literature database (maybe Mendeley.com for the literature). However, somehow we would need to link from each to the guidelines they relate to.
• Investigate possible technologies for managing/sharing case study literature
  • e.g. Mendeley or Citeulike

Categorization and searching of cases

• The case study semantic form
  • tags each case with the general Category:Case
  • uses the other fields in the case form as tags/categorizies (e.g. Country, Decision phase)
• Cases can be searched/filtered using custom semantic queries or pre-build semantic query pages

Synthesis of cases

• Synthesis of the cases will focus on their recorded lessons, and how these lessons contribute to the overall FORSYS lessons/guidelines

Sharing results

• The CTSC is hosting all cases to the FORSYS wiki
• The CSTC has submitted a presentation proposal for the final FORSYS conference in April 2013
• The CSTC has also proposed a case synthesis journal article for the FORSYS conference issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
• Other ideas???

DONE

After the Leuven 2011 meeting

• Synthesized Leuven discussion and updated Case Study Guidelines on the wiki
• Developed semantic wiki form for STSM Opportunities

At Leuven 2011 meeting

• Give case study introductory presentation
• Each STC member leads a subgroup on assigned task
• Develop & present a time line for the work on the case studies
  • incl. meeting of the STC
  • incl. clear division of responsibilities

Before the Leuven 2011 meeting

• Develop two (or more) documents:
  • Case Study Notes by Research Phase: organize information already generated about the case study guidelines
  • 2011-11_Leuven_Case_Study_Agenda
• Gather further information on case studies (STC sends request to country representatives)
  • Existing forest DSS case studies
  • Potential forest DSS case studies
  • Other relevant literature (methods, theories, etc)