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The Ada Project

website providing information related to support of women in technology

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2024
Entity authorityQ48969865 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Ada Project (TAP) is a website providing information on events, funding, positions and organisations supportive of women in technology. It links to resources about the history of women in computing, aiding in the historical rediscovery of women's roles in the field.

Originally created at Yale University in 1994, the resource has been maintained by Carnegie Mellon University since 2005.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Ada Project” as website providing information related to support of women in technology. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Project, website and providing.

Editorial reviewA practical orientation to terminology and classification, particularly when read beside dated observations, specimens or technical literature. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Project, website and providing providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Ada Project”, the useful work is to connect “website providing information related to support of women in technology” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Stable identifiers, scientific names and standards terminology offer the best bridge between this overview and specialist evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q48969865. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994 and 2005.

Critical limits

A general summary may omit uncertainty, sample limits or methodological disagreement that is explicit in the technical record. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Ada Project”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Ada Project primary sources, The Ada Project archive and Project research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which observation, specimen, dataset or publication supports the account?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Ada Project” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.