Project log

Progress

Where the collection and its fieldwork stand, what has changed, what is open, and what comes next. This page is the public log of the project and is rebuilt with every release; the counts are computed from the data files, not typed in.

Counts, computed at build time

What	Count	Note
Color records	6	GCMD-001 to GCMD-006
Case records	10	one cited cross-cultural finding each
Interview records	8	wave 1, by contributor code
Rating cards	7 of 8	six colors, five scales each
Recorded conversation	3.0 hours	sessions of 11 to 33 minutes
Citable records in total	24	each with a stable identifier and a citation block
Sources in the bibliography	30	every identifier checked to resolve

Target. Twelve interviews across at least five backgrounds outside the Chinese diaspora by mid-October 2026, under protocol version 2.

Status. No wave 2 record is published yet. Contributors of British, Australian, Thai, and African backgrounds are already identified in the private log, and every session ends with the snowball question that finds the next one. The short-form script, the consent practice, and the release are on the protocol page.

Releases, newest first

Date	Change
2026-09-06	Apparatus and presentation Theory page (six positions in the anthropology of color, tied to what the fieldwork can test). Standards page with the precedents the archive copies and a twelve-item audit. Protocol version 2, the short form for wave 2, with the consent script, the written release, and the codebook. A Dublin Core block and a copy-ready citation on every interview record. A wave column in the rating data. Sixteen new sources. The public layer is now English only: quotes are published in English translation, idioms romanized, and the original-language recordings and transcripts are held in the private tier. White institutional palette.
2026-08-12	Wave 1 published Eight interview records by contributor code, seven rating cards, real ratings with sample sizes on all six color records, a fieldwork index with the method, the cleaning notes, and the limitations, and downloadable data (fieldwork.json, ratings.csv).
Summer 2026	Collection founded Six color records and ten case records built from published scholarship, each with a stable identifier and a citation block; bibliography, methodology, contribute page, and how-to-cite page.

Open items and their status

Item	Status
Written attribution	0 of 8 wave 1 contributors have confirmed their attribution in writing. Consent was given on every recording; until the written confirmation lands, every contributor appears by code and no recording is published.
Persistent identifier (DOI)	Planned: a Zenodo deposit of the wave 1 dataset once attributions are in. Record-level identifiers are already stable.
Faculty advisor	None secured. Outreach is in progress; no advisor is named on this site until one has agreed in writing.
Recordings and card scans	Held in the private tier. The public layer publishes structured, translated excerpts and the cleaned rating data.

The full standards audit, with a status for each of the twelve standards the archive is measured against, is on the standards page.

Planned milestones

When	What
Mid-September 2026	First wave 2 interview records published by code.
End of September 2026	Twelve wave 2 sessions recorded and processed.
Early October 2026	Zenodo deposit and DOI, if the written attributions are in.
Mid-October 2026	Wave 2 summary table and the first cross-background comparison on the fieldwork page.