A key component of the project is development of a database describing core essay concepts, attitudes and opinions correlated with student descriptors (age, gender, race, nationality, etc.) and additional information provided by the students through an accompanying survey form. A "blind key" system will ensure the privacy of students - and the inability to link survey and bio/demographic information to the students themselves.

Researchers will have access to core meta-data describing essay contents and will also be able to provide their own metadata descriptors which they can use for further analysis. Spatial/geographic analysis will be possible in addition to country/cultural analysis.