We have begun to think about a few user groups that need to be connected:
-- involved researchers. This is harder than it would seem: researchers in a small group can add content to the archive and others in the group not know about it. It would help if researchers, on a weekly or bi-monthly basis, listed their newest work in a text artificat added to the project page. The text artifact, in turn could, become part of a project timeline.
--a community-based environmental org in Santa Ana that we partner with. MPNA-GREEN's use of the archive will really depend on architecture that makes it easy to conceptualize and see where things are. This conceptualization and discovery could be supported with a weekly or bi-monthly emailto the group pointing to new or featured content.
-- teachers and students in Santa Ana. A weekly or bi-monthly email or bulletin could also support this.
-- educators and activists beyond Santa Ana drawn in because this case of enviornmental injustice is good to think with. This could be done with a monthly bulletin that goes out to EiJ GLobal Record collaborators, to the Beyond EiJ Teaching Collective and to the a broad list of environmental justice organizations (that have opted in).
The archive itself does not connect users. Users connect through the contact information – which points users to The Energy Rights Project team, available via email – and they can join the research team if they would like to connect. The archive is not designed to connect people. There is no functionality for this built in and we have not designed anything in beyond pointing users back to the research team.