2015-08-07 status

Done

Administrivia

• Started reworking application materials for Chancellor's Graduate Research Award (née Fellowship). Statement of intent no longer required. DGS must submit by 23 September (4 p.m. CDT).

Data Collection

• Added email trigger in Qualtrics to send thank you message and copy of consent document on survey completion, as promised in survey text.
• Announced "final" survey to three people I know using generic recruitment email.
• Received one response from someone I don't know.
• Acting on advice from BDE, who was rightfully worried about length of monolithic server, split survey into two parts (fingering and player profile), to be sent out separately with separate $100 lottery incentives. AFL thought this was a good idea.
• Decided fingering part should go out first.
• After a budgetary epiphany, decided that all online activities will be incentivized with separate $100 lotteries.
• Updated Qualtrics and affected IRB documents to reflect these changes.
• Redrafted recruitment emails to reflect these changes.
• Refinalized surveys, leaving question content unchanged.

Doing

1. Leveraging abc2svg for MDC4.
2. Standardizing file format for fingering.

Struggling

• Contemplating a major rewrite for MDC4, where I get out of the business of parsing abc myself. This should simplify the code greatly, but the way is not clear.
• Prelude and Fugue 18 appears to be corrupted by my hacking efforts to migrate to abc.