Update about CORE March 2022
As ever, my work and non-work lives have been very busy and I’ve taken up a part-time post at short notice to provide compassionate leave cover so the next three to six months my CORE input will be reduced.
- General CORE issues
* The mapping review work based in UDLA has identified 363 papers at first screen and we are starting data extraction (in pairs).
 - Translations
* Urdu: PDFs for the CORE-OM are available and someone in Pakistan is working on the short forms.
* I have belatedly mounted the Portuguese translations of all the adult measures and the YP-CORE at the Portuguese page.
* Estonian, Setswana, Bangla and Rohingya all continue to progress at different stages of the work.
* Work looking at the suitability of the Spanish YP-CORE translation is moving to quantitative data collection. The need for a different translation continues to look likely to be empirically confirmed but let’s wait to see the quantitative findings.
 - Web site
* Automatic translations of pages on the main site are progressing. As ever, do contact me if you might help with proofreading those for any language.Â
* The subsites in Finnish and Portuguese/Brasilian are now public. Many thanks to Vera Gergov and Murilo Zibetti respectively for all their work to create those (and now, we hope, to be able to answer questions and develop CORE networks in Finnish and Portuguese in ways of their choosing but that I clearly could not have done.
* The subsites page has been updated and linked with one titled “Translations and subsites” which we hope will clarify the distinction between translations of pages on the main site and the subsites. If you want to run a subsite for your language or specialist arena, do contact me.
* I have created a page for software and systems supporting or using CORE instruments. Contact me if you have a system that should be there.
* I have also created a page listing services using CORE instruments, again contact me if you think yours should be there.
 - Tangential
* The presentation and recording of the launch event for the OMbook is on the OMbook page.
More next month, very best all for these challenging times.
Original sent 30/3/2022, reconstructed 4/12/2024 when I realised that mailchimp had deleted their archive of posts on the list when they priced me out of using them! Author Chris Evans, licensed under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
