Shift in Project Objectives

It's been recently decided that we need to shift our project mission and objectives. Because we spent the vast majority of our efforts working on the formal economy (three weeks of store data collection), we didn't gather enough information on the informal sector or flooding to justify making full-fledged objectives out of the data we do have. As such, here is our new project outline.

Mission Statement:
The main goal of this project is to document the evolution and current state of Venice's formal economy, as well as explore contributing factors such as tourism and the environment.

Objectives and Methodology:
1. To document Venice's current formal economy, focusing on the retail, restaurant, and hotel sectors.
1.1 Investigating the current retail sector of Venice
1.2 Investigating the current hotel sector
1.3 Investigating the current restaurant sector

2. To compile information about and display the evolution of the Venetian formal economy and lay a foundation for future projects.
2.1 Compile information from past projects into one source of data
2.2 Standardize data collection and entry for future projects

3. To establish a platform from which future analysis and documentation of the informal sector and the effect of floods on the formal economy can take place.
3.1 Locating and quantifying the informal activities
3.2 Assessing the impact of losses accrued by flooding during high tides

With these new objectives in mind, we have started creating our deliverables. The full list of everyone's project deliverables can be found on Venipedia, but since the server is currently down, here is what we plan to present:
A paper report on our project findings
A Powerpoint presentation to be delivered next Thursday (invite only, sorry!)
A standardized field collection form that future projects will be able to use to collect their data
An updated 2009 store database
A standard database compiling data from the 2004-2007 surveys with the 2009 database
MapInfo layers marking the locations of all stores, restaurants, and hotels in San Marco and Cannaregio
A sliding map made of the layers detailing the stores at each location throughout the years
A checkbox map allowing users to select which type of store is displayed
Suggested maps and graphical displays for future projects regarding the informal economy and flooding

Right now, we are waiting on files from the VPC so we can send them to Venice 4.0, who is creating our maps. We've started work on our final paper and are finalizing our Powerpoint today and tomorrow. It looks like we're going to work over the weekend in hopes of finishing a little early. Only one week until presentation day!