Planning for Phylo started in 2006 with two parts of the project: data collection and integration and visual interface development. During summer 2007, we collected information on over 4,000 dissertations and 3,000 faculty appointments at 18 schools. Since then, we’ve been adding smaller updates and trying to integrate our data with other kinds of information, especially publication metadata sources and keyword taxonomies. We drafted our first displays in fall 2006, revised them throughout the year, and we stated coding web versions in fall 2007. A beta version of the site was launched in fall 2008, and we’ve been adding data and developing new features since then. You can find more details in the "Documents" and "Technologies" sections of our About page.