Next Steps

• Implement recommended strategies if advised by expert.


• Check domain glossaries – Review glossaries for complexity science, systems theory, participatory methods, inter- and trans-disciplinarity, diverse epistemologies, and knowledge management. Add relevant terms to IIS as deemed necessary.
• Consolidate thesauri - Work with ERIC to get thesaurus in electronic form to import into IIS thesaurus so all terms are in one place, or enter all relevant ERIC terms manually.
• Reconcile Languages – A decision was made that the IIS Thesaurus ought to be written in International (British) English as the majority of users (and the key scholar) will be characterized as international. The Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors is a product of the American government and, as such, is in American English. The IIS Thesaurus does its best to use British English, but cannot when terms have been borrowed from ERIC. As such, the language is somewhat motley at the moment. Once the relevant terms from ERIC have been imported into the ISS Thesaurus, they can be modified to reflect the appropriate spellings.
• Actual Indexing of IIS resources – Indexing of citations, individuals, organizations and other resources within a central IIS database, or in distributed programs as necessary (e.g. separate citation management software).