DISCOVERY TO DELIVERY

• Aims and objectives
• Project methodology
• Implications
• Deliverables
• Stakeholders
• Project team

Project methodology

The approach being taken is to divide the Project into 4 distinct, although interrelated, work areas. Each of these work areas will be led by a member of staff from one of the National Data Centres (NDCs) but there will be input from staff from each of the NDCs into all the work areas.

Teams at both NDCs will report to a local project manager, who will coordinate NDC collaboration, communications and reporting. The work areas are:

1. Scholarly Communications website and scoping portal
2. Personalisation and Institutional Profiling
3. Linking through to Tables of Contents
4. Final Access and Delivery using Brokers and Registries

Mimas staff will take primary responsibility for Work areas b. and c. and EDINA staff for Work Areas a. and d.

Within each of the work areas there are a number of work packages which are based on coherent groupings of tasks.

The Project Team will comprise of staff from both NDCs. This team will be formally responsible for the project.

The Co-Directors will direct the project, and the Project Managers will oversee the work-programme. The technical teams at each NDC will define and document the technical architecture to be used in each work-package. The Project Team will agree collectively on the standards to be deployed for development, and also on where further investigation is required. The project managers will ensure that these specification documents are shared with the larger project team and that adequate feedback mechanisms are in place to ensure consensus over approach. In addition, a Reference Group will be established. Membership will comprise representatives from key stakeholders.