In its original form The Findability Project (TFP) was a public project development site documenting implementation of enterprise search within a non-profit, multiple-office legal services work environment. It was the public face of a special technology search project undertaken by Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC), a legal services program assisting low-income clients in 23 counties in the upper third of California. Made possible by a grant from the LSC Technology Initiative Grant Program, the goal of the project was to implement a Google Enterprise Search Appliance as the principal building block of a modest but secure, well structured, fully web accessible knowledge-content system.
The Findability Project was completed in June 2009 and you can download the LSC-approved TIG final evaluation report. Upon completion of the project its dedicated website was deactivated and all of its content was then moved to Webdogs 2.0, which serves as the web repository for various LSNC technology projects.
All 42 project posts have been chronologically integrated here. Other project content has also been migrated to this site, including finalized versions of the project’s content taxonomy, document protocols, file-naming conventions, recommendations for organizing individual user directories, configuration of a SharePoint server, and the project’s hand-rolled list of CSS selectors selectors for use with the GSA open source XHTML stylesheet:
- TIG final evaluation report (July 29, 2009)
- 29 Top-level Project Directories (revised May 11, 2009)
- Simplified Structural Taxonomy (revised May 11, 2009)
- File-naming “best practices”
- Best practices and protocols for GSA Documents
- Organization of advocate-user directories
- Installation and configuration of a SharePoint server
- CSS selectors for GSA open source XHTML stylesheet
- PHP code for creating a “personnel” OneBox GSA search result