Boundary worksheet

Use this worksheet during Lesson 03 — Boundaries before the scrape. Print one copy per corpus you want to set boundaries on.

Pick a real corpus you or a colleague is involved with — a recordings archive, a list of place-names, an interview transcript set. Then complete each field below in writing. If a field is hard to answer, that is the most important answer to write down.

Corpus name    ___________________________________________________

Date    ___________________________________________________

Drafted by    ___________________________________________________

1. May use

Who, exactly, may use this corpus? Name the parties. Everyone not named is excluded.

2. Purpose

For what purpose? List the uses. Everything not listed is excluded.

3. Reviewer

Who reviews new requests against this corpus? Name one human and a named backup. Both should sign below.

Primary: ___________________________________________________

Backup:   ___________________________________________________

4. Benefit

What does the source community receive in return for this use? Be specific. "Acknowledgement" alone is not a benefit.

5. Withdrawal

What is the pathway to revise, reject, or withdraw — and who can trigger it? Describe the steps an engineer could actually execute.

Signatures

Reviewer (primary): ___________________________________________________

Reviewer (backup):   ___________________________________________________

Community representative: ___________________________________________________

Date of next review: ___________________________________________________

Tip: send the first draft to one person from the represented community and ask them to redline it. The first draft is never the final one.