Transport Phenomena Archive History
When materials transport educators were brought together at a TMS symposium in March 2004, the most pressing need expressed at the meeting was for a set of case studies in electronic format with easy access. This meshed well with Adam Powell's plans to post all of the problems written for his transport class at MIT on the Materials Digital Library, and so this archive was born.
In May 2004, the first iteration of the site plan was uploaded into the CVS server at Kent State University, including the basic outline of the web pages, a simple ad-hoc text-based metadata format, and one or two resources per section. In June, the number of resources increased substantially.
By the Summer of 2005, the number of resources was around eighty, and it became clear that further significant expansion would require a mechanism for reviewing prospective contributions. For this reason, an Editorial Board was assembled of transport educators in materials and materials-related field from around the world.
This resource is constantly evolving; below are some of the milestones the Archive has reached and goals for future expansion.
Completed:
- Reinstate keyword pages in the problems section DONE March 20, 2007
- New alphabetical and reverse chronological Wiki pages in problems section DONE March 20, 2007
- Remove "score" numbers in all sections, instead use numbered lists of resources to keep track of numbers DONE March 20, 2007
- Migration to Subversion/Trac DONE March 19, 2007
- Milestone: 25 contributors DONE June 30, 2006
- Milestone: 100 resources DONE April 9, 2006
- Milestone: ten contributors DONE January 27, 2006
- Use of Sphlow Java applet in one problem DONE January 24, 2005
- FAQ page DONE November 16, 2004
- Name change: Transport Archive to Transport Phenomena Archive DONE November 16, 2004
- Number of resources next to each internal link DONE November 16, 2004
- Milestone: fifty resources DONE September 28, 2004
- Other outside links section of main page DONE September 23, 2004
- Milestone: three contributors DONE September 16, 2004
- Document postscript format browsing resources DONE July 7, 2004
- Lists of problems by keyword DONE July 6, 2004
- "Blog"-style reverse chronological list of problems DONE July 6, 2004
- Contact ten prospective contributors about the archive DONE June 18, 2004
Planned:
- Use of MatML grapher in at least one problem
- Make this a more generic teaching archive, not just transport phenomena archive
- Move from ad hoc metadata format to IEEE LOM
- Transport ontology
- Links from resources back into transport ontology
- Copyright, license footnotes inside each document
- Milestone: 50 contributors
- Workflow and review procedures formalized/established
- Web form for uploading new resources into the Archive for review
- Milestone: 300 resources
