We will be meeting with the Land Title Office staff, so we met today to prepare a list of questions relating to issues around granularity of properties, co-ownership, and various other thorny problems arising out of the data we already have.

We also talked about the handling of documentary data for the project as a whole, and our clusters in particular. The resulting plan is to get an unlimited account on Zotero for the first year, and see how that suits our needs. We will create a protocol which re-purposes some of the existing Zotero fields we don't need for things we do require that aren't covered (since Zotero doesn't allow custom fields). We will also put in place XML processing for XML output dumps of the Zotero db so that we can run validation and consistency checks on the data, and ensure errors are corrected. Finally, JS-R's existing document database will be exported as XML and turned into a format that Zotero can ingest; this will involve some detailed processing of citation information to create filepath-like string values representing the exact location of a document (archive/collection/box/file etc.). Using this system we will be able to reconstruct a tree-like view of the documents in their archives down the road.