What makes a project "Advanced"?
I am curious if there is a list of the criteria used when marking a project as Advanced. I've been reviewing the Canada Ontario Tax Assessment records and it's a fairly straightforward project with mostly clear writing, less than 50 records per batch, with not very many fields per records. I would use this as an example when training people on indexing. I can't see anything that would make it 'advanced'.
So then I got to wondering what the criteria might be. Does anyone know?
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I contacted FamilySearch support and received this anwser.
An advanced project is usually records that are old and very difficult to read and they need an experienced indexer to index them.
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It is not true on all projects. Some of them require addtional skills such as adding or deleting entries and other skills.
If you are able to do advanced projects, that is great. Thankyou for the indexing you are doing
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Thanks. I forgot to come back and check if there were any more answers to my question. The project I'm working on is definitely not very difficult to read. It doesn't seem any more complicated than average, so I was just curious.
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There was a time when only projects with difficult- to-read handwriting was labeled advanced but I think that more of today's projects are getting labeled advanced because many of the schools stopped teaching cursive writing which resulted in less of the younger generation being able to read the projects in cursive writing. So unless the project is typed, printed or written extremely clearly, there are less volunteers able to complete them. Add to it that some projects also require certain specific criteria by the owners of the rights to the project and other items and it makes them become more difficult to larger groups of volunteers. So if the projects are not being completed properly, they end up being changed from beginner or intermediate and moved to the advanced category in an effort to get them done by the volunteers who are more proficient. At least that is my personal opinion and I am only speaking as another volunteer and not as an authority.
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If a project has lots overlays or images that span two images, that also might bump them into the advanced level too. But, I agree, from what I've seen of the Ontario Tax Assessment records there wasn't a reason to make them advanced and the next part has been lowered to intermediate.
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Thanks Dellory Matthews. I don't know why that article didn't come up for me.
Based on those criteria, this project is closer to a beginner than advanced, but as Melissa Himes mentioned, it's been changed to intermediate for the next part, so that makes more sense.
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