Why Normalize Council Data?
The IMPAC system will soon allow Insitutes to identify council action information on all funding Institutes and Centers (IC) rather than only two which is currently the case with the legacy IMPAC system. This has proven problematic for Institutes who are financial contributors but are not one of the first two Institutes. If the Institute is listed third or fourth or more on the award there is no automated way for to attribute those applications to a particular council date or flag those applications as requiring council review. This problem is being resolved in IMPAC II by normalizing, or restructuring, council data. The object of normalizing council data is to lose the distinction between dual IC(s), tertiary ICs, etc. so that any interested IC may: • Take any application to council. • Retrieve the application under each interested IC’s council date. • Store council results for any application reviewed at council. • Retain results for the original and new council meeting for applicati